Finance committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair and honourable members of the committee. Thank you for inviting the RCMP to participate in today's meeting. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for the invitation to participate in your meeting today. I'm accompanied here today by Sergeant Stephen Corney

Finance committee  I actually looked at statistics yesterday in preparation for appearing here today, and I can state that in regard to the change in legislation we had in 2010, we are now getting reports—for example, from FINTRAC, which is reporting suspected cases of money laundering involving ta

Finance committee  Sorry, how is the process...?

Finance committee  The Canada Revenue Agency, yes. We've had a long-standing working relationship, as I stated in my opening remarks. CRA is an integral partner to our RCMP integrated proceeds of crime unit, obviously, and communication with CRA is pretty well ongoing. Certainly the numbers I pro

Finance committee  No, I can't point to anything in particular. As I stated as well in my opening remarks, we are currently working together to try to enhance our relationship. But that's more specific to being able to maximize the use of the new legislation that was issued in 2010—it's relativel

Finance committee  Exactly. As we all know, obviously, tax law is very secret. The way tax information can be shared with law enforcement is limited, but there is legislation that does allow it. Certainly if there were legislation that I would suggest could be improved, it would be the sharing of

Finance committee  I did not say that in my presentation.

Finance committee  No, it's not an error. You were not given the right document. I had another document. Be that as it may, I can certainly check where those figures come from, if you will allow me a few moments.

Finance committee  You should not rely on those figures. Those are estimates produced by the Tax Justice Network.

Finance committee  We are talking about tax evasion.

Finance committee  These are the total amounts.

Finance committee  No. The interpretation could look to be backward, but it's not. That's how the figures appear when you want to show the decrease in the number of counterfeits. Parts per million is actually how it's described, and the increase in number is actually a decrease. It's quite deceivin

Finance committee  No.

Finance committee  I would say it's not zero—for sure it's not zero—but it would not be as great as the number we refer to them.

Finance committee  It's kind of difficult to answer. Obviously, as I mentioned earlier, there could be improved legislation that would improve the way we can share information, or whereby Revenue Canada can share information with us. At the same time, we recognize the importance of keeping that inf