Finance committee  Mr. Chairman, may I first go back to the question that was asked by Ms. Glover, to clarify the last sentence in part of my speech? When I reread the sentence, Ms. Glover is correct. That was my interpretation, that a statistic was possibly represented. For instance, if the figure

Finance committee  Thank you. As far as the sharing or the restriction as to where we can share information, I can't think of too many cases where we cannot openly share information with the CRA if we are engaged in a joint investigation with them. Typically that is the requirement. If we are eng

Finance committee  From the RCMP to the CRA.

Finance committee  That's correct.

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

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  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