Welcome and thank you to the team and Mr. Fréchette for being here and for the excellent work you do.
As you mentioned, Mr. Fréchette, the NDP has been pushing for a CRA strategy on tax cheats and for the government to measure the tax gap, a multi-billion dollar problem as you know. Mr. Keddy says that other countries don't do this. Well the United States and the U.K. have found econometric models to do just that, and we, of course, asked that you take that on to get the data from the CRA.
As you mentioned, Parliament is going to vote tomorrow on a motion from our colleague Monsieur Dionne Labelle to order the government to order the CRA to provide the Parliamentary Budget Officer with the information necessary to provide an independent estimate of the federal tax gap.
If you had those tools, if you had that data, could you undertake the analysis?