Thank you, Mr. Hamilton. It sounds like a good investment.
Marc Brière, the president of the Union of Taxation Employees, said in November:
We strongly oppose these job cuts. Just to give you an idea, a collection officer collects between $1 to $5 million per year, while their salaries range between $65K to $73K/year...It doesn't make sense to lose hundreds of millions yearly. It certainly doesn't help to balance the government's books.
Would you not agree that if we have uncollected debts—and there are certainly more, and I don't think you would assert there isn't more money out there that audits and collections would return to the treasury—it makes sense to be investing in increased audit and collection services at this point in time, not cutting them?