Thank you very much.
I'd like to thank the witnesses. I am used to having marauding children and poor rural Internet, so I understand the challenges. I appreciate that, and the interpreter as well has done a terrific job through some choppy Internet, so thank you.
I'm thinking of a phrase I heard in my childhood, which is that water can't get any more wet. When I look at the CRA.... One of the things that you're presenting to us is the fact that if we put the provincial in there, the coordination would be impossible. It would be difficult, at least, which could cause things like systems not talking to each other. Systems like the CRA are not able to talk to ESDC, preventing people who are in desperate need of benefits from getting them because these two systems can't talk, systems that have people online for literally hours waiting desperately to get [Inaudible—Editor] that cost thousands of dollars...the CRA cannot respond to. Water cannot get any more wet, is the response.
When we look at these things, miscommunications like not being able to tell people whether CERB benefits are based on gross or net, when we look at these failures, how much worse could it get if Quebec was involved? I have trouble fathoming it. Despite these billions of dollars that the parliamentary secretary talked about that are in there, the CRA is failing Canadians, and I find it challenging to see how this water can get any more wet. Maybe you could expand on that for me.