Finance committee  Mr. Chair, the amount that we've reflected, the $4.97 million at this point in time, is our best-guess estimate of what the media campaign will cost. It is our intention, obviously, to work with that amount, first of all; and secondly, should there be any flexibility or amounts t

Finance committee  That's right. We're at approximately 58% for the—

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, it's in recognition of the fact that we are, as I indicated before, an IT-dependent organization. We undertake some significant projects and it's a recognition that this capital budget and those activities that fall under that particular new vote should be accounted fo

Finance committee  This is probably the 2009-10 tax year. We continue to try to improve on that. We don't necessarily have a projection, or I don't have it with me, but it's something that we strive to.... There's a certain point, a certain threshold, that it's hard to go beyond, so we're trying to

Finance committee  We'll bring the question back to them.

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, as regards the supplementary estimates, we have been scrubbing the numbers heavily over the last little while, and according to our discussions with our colleagues, in central agencies the same is being done. So we're very confident that what you'll see in our upcoming

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, again, we're not in a position to speak to the forgone revenue. That's a question that would be more appropriate for our Finance fellows.

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Basically, what it meant for the CRA was that we were able to leverage on the expertise and infrastructure we had already in place, which we've been using and continue to use, obviously, for our collections functions on the tax side. So there wasn't any maj

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, it's worth noting that when the taxpayers' ombudsman was established within the agency there was the development of a specific strategic outcome for that particular function and office. Just reading it quickly to you, it is that “Taxpayers and benefit recipients receiv

Finance committee  The reflection on the decrease is likely as a result of some funding that we've received over the years to do specific compliance-related work that is sunsetting. Over time we see a decrease in some of the business lines, and that's often related to the sunsetting of funding that

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, we're very close. We have traditionally had some financial flexibility in the agency, but it is related to specific items that we administer on behalf of other jurisdictions. Really, those are fenced funds. From an operating budget perspective, our financial flexibilit

Finance committee  We don't perform cost-benefit analysis, Mr. Chair. We basically estimate how much it would take to put the program in place and deliver it in an effective and efficient manner.

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, the agency has been growing. In the take-up on the electronic filing processes we're at approximately 58% right now. We have systems and processes in place to do validation and checks. I'm not in a position to comment on error rates; however, I am here to confirm that

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, the processes that I referenced in terms of verification and validation are well-established processes within the agency. They're risk-based. We don't have plans to hire any additional individuals to do those particular functions. As I mentioned before, any new requir

Finance committee  No. The $136 million is indeed embedded into the $3.1 billion from last year's main estimates.