I call this meeting to order.
This is meeting 102 of the Standing Committee on Finance. Our orders of the day are pursuant to Standing Order 108(2): a study of tax evasion and the use of tax havens.
This is the continuation of a study that the committee had undertaken in the last session of Parliament in 2010-11; we're building on the work done by the committee at that time.
Colleagues, I want to thank our witnesses for being here with us this morning. We're very pleased to have three organizations with us: the Canada Revenue Agency, the Department of Finance, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. My understanding—I hope I'm correct here—is that the Department of Finance will go first, then CRA, then the RCMP. You each have about five minutes for an opening statement.
I think we'll start with Mr. Ernewein, then, from the Department of Finance, and then go to CRA and the RCMP.