Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Welcome, witnesses, and thank you for attending.
I'd like to talk about compliance. You talked about the compliance continuum, Mr. Perlman. I also want to talk about uncollected tax debt, in the short time available.
First of all, on compliance, you talk about a net decrease in the main estimates of $98 million, and I understand from the 2013-14 report on plans and priorities that the reporting compliance program is facing a funding cut of nearly 11%, $120 million between 2012-13 and 2015-16. That's nearly $120 million. The number of FTEs in the program is going to be cut by more than 300 between the current budget year and 2015-16. So that, plus the accounts receivable and returns compliance being cut by another 14%....
First of all, is that accurate? Do I have the accurate information? If so, how does that plug into the compliance continuum, these cuts that you've talked about? Won't it make it even more difficult to achieve compliance with these cuts?