Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the presenters today. It's very interesting to listen to the wealth of experience and the knowledge you have on taxes and tax evasion.
In the economic statement in the fall of 2020, our government committed to invest $606 million over five years, starting in 2021, to expose the high-net-worth compliance gap, to strengthen technical support for high-risk audits and to enhance the criminal investigations program.
We heard today that the funding commitment by our government is still too low. I listened with real interest as I heard that the previous government, the Harper government, had made cuts to CRA's resources. I'm wondering if you could tell us—and I think Claude and André talked about the cuts—what the impact was of those cuts. If we're putting money into it and there is still not enough, what was the impact when resources were taken away? Are we still trying to play catch-up as a result? Do we not have all the technology we need because of that? Is it that we don't have enough staff, or maybe that the resources we have are inadequate to do the job?
Does somebody want to take a crack at giving me some answers to those questions?