Finance committee  Again, Mr. Chair, based on the facts of those cases, the statutes and the jurisprudence, there have been no charges laid to date.

Finance committee  Beyond criminal investigations—including criminal investigations, but also including civil actions—there are three areas, and one is CRA access to information. Whether it is information that's protected by solicitor-client privilege or whether it is taxpayers objecting through th

Finance committee  I would have to get the answer, but I would say there would have been dozens of meetings.

Finance committee  Again, we're talking about more than 25 clients, so there would have easily been 100 different pieces of correspondence. There was litigation on finding out who they were and then resolving the actual tax bill that they had to pay in getting to that $24 million amount I talked ab

Finance committee  I did that comparison, and I think that relative to our economy, we were 10th. There was a slight change. I will use the example of Colombia, which your colleague mentioned. Colombia, surprisingly, has $100 million U.S., all from one voluntary disclosure by one taxpayer, so I w

Finance committee  In terms of the core group of participants, we have determined that $24 million is owed in taxes. As I mentioned, two files are still open. We also found 70 more participants, represented by other accounting firms, whom we asked to repay $7 million. We then reviewed all e‑tran

Finance committee  As was explained previously, given the point we're at in terms of our investigations, we are—

Finance committee  Yes, that's correct.

Finance committee  Again, the Paradise papers was a very different case from the Panama papers. It was publicly available information that people would have already had. I don't think we've confirmed any investigation of criminality around the Paradise papers.

Finance committee  No, the numbers are a little higher. From memory, there are 25 clients, and two are apparently still in the process of being verified. I think you're talking about the ones that have reached a voluntary agreement to identify themselves.

Finance committee  First, when there is a dispute, negotiations are always carried out to reach a settlement. Settlement discussions are not unusual when there are disputes. It is a normal process. The legislation that the Canada Revenue Agency used to force KPMG to disclose the identity of taxpa

Finance committee  Yes. The $1-billion figure that people have talked about as an investment that was to yield $5 billion was a very significant investment. We identified that $5 billion a year early, despite being disrupted by COVID for two years.

Finance committee  It is over $5 billion.

Finance committee  That's correct.

Finance committee  That's a tactical result. In terms of outcomes, though, there are other positive indicators. We're getting roughly 4,000 people with offshore assets trying to come through voluntary disclosure every year. We've tightened it to make it less generous, but those are taxpayers speaki