Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to follow up on questions regarding the Canada Revenue Agency, on this whole business about not having the international auditors. There was some talk about tax havens and inability to do proper risk assessment.
The reason it's important is that this is, in large part, where big money is. There aren't too many steelworkers in downtown Hamilton, in my riding, who are taking advantage of tax havens and offshore tax treatments, etc., but they are the taxpayers who have to make up the difference when those who already have money can hire high-end auditors to work the numbers for them. So I consider this to be pretty big, although it's not a large, looming issue in all of these reports.
I know you've already acknowledged that you don't have a dollar figure--perhaps we can ask Canada Revenue for it--but roughly what are we talking about? You know the old saying, you talk enough millions, pretty soon you're talking real money. What's the potential here for tax leakage whereby either programs are not going to be paid for or somebody who's already paid their fair share is going to pay someone else's fair share?