I talked about this issue earlier.
I was saying that the Harper government's cuts were made in the context of an austerity policy. They have caused a lot of damage to the country. Now, with the money reinvested in the Canada Revenue Agency, we're at about the same point as before, while the needs are much greater and the situation has become very complex.
Technology has indeed changed, and we have access to much more information than we did before. It's very difficult to process that information, and it's extremely complex, whether it's tax leakage or automatic information exchange.
So that's why we're saying not only do we need to go beyond the current level and compensate for the losses, which we're doing, but we also need to go a lot further and invest a lot more money.
In my opinion, the Biden administration has realized that in the current emergency situation caused by, among other things, all the additional expenses generated by the COVID‑19 pandemic, it is time to recover that money. These funds can only be accessed by increasing the number of experts and specialists who can investigate and catch the fraudsters, who are the hardest to catch.
That's why we consider our request to be important.