Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Madam Fraser, in your report, you've noted that identity theft has increased significantly since 2002. We also have 2.9 million more social insurance numbers than we have population. You've noted that 2.1 million of those are inactive. What that is in fact telling us is that there are 800,000 that are potentially active.
What kind of potential cost to the treasury might we be facing as a result of this situation, especially when the programs that do federal payouts using the social insurance number amount to about $70 billion annually?