I don't think that's the case. People are very useful.
Only 6,000 of the Canada Revenue Agency's employees are in Quebec. The reason I say it's only 6,000 is that there are 45,000 of them in the country. One of the reasons behind that is that the CRA is no longer responsible for administering the GST in Quebec. I wanted to say to Mr. Sylvestre that, when this happened, the Canada Revenue Agency's employees were transferred to Revenu Québec, but that's small potatoes compared to the number of jobs involved in the administration of all taxes. Some of the other activities people are involved in are collection and auditing. As Ms. Daviau said, some members of her organization are involved in collection. That's also the case with us. There are also people working in IT. The CRA employees in Quebec hold a variety of jobs. They work for Quebeckers and process Quebec taxpayers' files. There are sometimes even workloads coming from outside Quebec.
Don't forget that, if a change was made to transfer the responsibility for taxes to the provinces, the Canada Revenue Agency would have no interest in keeping jobs in Shawinigan, as it has been mentioned, since it has other similar centres in the country. So it could transfer those jobs there, as they are transferable. So there would be some nice empty buildings.
There are indeed duplicated positions, if you will. I know this, as I worked at Revenu Québec before working at the Canada Revenue Agency. So I'm familiar with both agencies. I can tell you that both agencies have collection agents and auditors. Arrangements are made to help the two agencies work together better, especially so as to improve the effectiveness of auditing.