In terms of resources, the bureau strives every day to get the absolute most out of the resources we have, to be as efficient and effective as possible, always looking at our processes and how we can do better, and what tools we could use to do better.
That said, I've spoken publicly multiple times about some of the challenges the bureau faces with respect to administering and enforcing the Competition Act in the digital economy. We've had a veritable explosion of data in the world and, of course, law enforcement agencies have to deal with the data we receive on cases. The amount of data we've received has gone up six times. The cost of cases has increased dramatically.
Our budget has been about the same for 10 years, so in real dollars, it's down about 10%, and we have fewer resources now than we did 15 years ago in terms of people working on files. Outsiders have called on the bureau to get more resources, including the C.D. Howe Institute as well as the Global Competition Review in its annual review of competition enforcement agencies around the world.
We're doing the best work we can in the public interest to protect Canadians. We've brought cases. We've investigated Google. We brought a case against Amazon in 2017 with respect to some of the pricing practices. We obviously resolved the matter with Facebook earlier this year in terms of privacy representation. As some members of the committee may know, we have an active investigation into Amazon.
The good people at the bureau get up every morning and our mission is to serve the public interest, to do as much as we can to enforce and administer the law and to promote competition in Canada.