I want to start by giving a bit of background about the spending review. When the government announced the $5.2 billion reduction, the CRA, as one of Canada's largest federal government organizations, had to do its part in contributing to the reduction of the federal deficit. Our part is the contribution of about 6.9% overall.
To answer your question directly, the CRA has been focusing its attention on administrative savings or activities that are of lower priority while maintaining its attention on higher-priority items such as international tax evasion and aggressive tax planning.
I want to assure the committee that the CRA is not weakening its efforts in audit enforcement. In fact, that is a priority area. Whenever we do our budgets going forward, these are the areas we tend to invest in.
In answer to your question, I believe the numbers you're quoting came out of question 1174, which should answer a number of the questions about aggressive tax planning and international tax evasion. If the committee would like, that question can be made available for distribution.