Thank you for your testimony today. I want to ask a couple of questions and summarize this. I don't think there's a question or a doubt, based on the testimony we've heard, that there were severe cuts to CRA in the past that have led to our falling behind. We're not quite where we should be in comparison with other countries around the world in dealing with tax evasion.
I guess where I'm having difficulty with your testimony is that it almost gives the impression that we're continuing the ways of the past—doing nothing and turning a blind eye. I recognize, in your testimony that it's not just the CRA, but that there has to be a more global approach to this. But when I look at CRA and the investment made there, in addition to the money, there was a committee formed, the Offshore Compliance Advisory Committee, with the following initial focus:
Strategies to help alleviate and discourage offshore non-compliance;
Administrative policies being used by other tax administrations to address this global issue;
Advice to the CRA in moving forward with its measurement of the tax gap;
Additional strategies and practices related to promoters of tax schemes; and
Potential ways to improve the CRA’s criminal investigation functions.
Isn't that essentially what you're asking for, what we're moving forward with? We don't have all the answers, because, for example, we've had years of cuts to the CRA in this regard. We're moving forward in that direction, but we're getting international experts as well as local ones to provide the specifics and the strategies needed to implement the very policies you're speaking of.