Public Accounts committee  Good morning. The Auditor General gave a good answer to the question. To the best of our knowledge, the agency chose not to take advantage of that first-hand information, with which it could have determined whether the applications were reasonable from a revenue standpoint, whi

Public Accounts committee  Good afternoon. Madam Chair, we decided to scope this audit very narrowly, focusing on the CLVS, because at the time we had insight that there was maybe a problem with that program.

Public Accounts committee  Good morning, Madam Chair. Listen, I can tell you that—

Public Accounts committee  Madam Chair, I can assure you that we have no concerns as to the collaboration between the federal government and the provinces that participate in the program.

Public Accounts committee  Good morning, Madam Chair. The methodology the office uses is very simple. As the Auditor General said, it's based on public data. You must bear in mind that our methodology focuses solely on intangible goods and services. The $169 million and $247 million figures are not associ

Public Accounts committee  I could not provide you with the name of a country. I know that at the World Customs Organization, guidelines are currently put together. Countries are working together to address this worldwide problem.

Public Accounts committee  I think you are right. There are millions of transactions and I think the CRA is pleased that no more than 524 people took the time to fill in the form that is available online. You can fill out the form and send it—

Public Accounts committee  We have been told by the CRA that they could not handle the volume.

Public Accounts committee  They don't have the capacity.

Public Accounts committee  We looked at the courier low-value shipment program, which currently has 14 participating companies, including FedEx, UPS, DHL and others. This is all that we looked at.

Public Accounts committee  Under the program, it is the responsibility of the courier to collect the tax.

Public Accounts committee  No, what we say is that CBSA is unable to validate if the amount of tax collected and remitted to CBSA is accurate.

Public Accounts committee  I don't have this information, but we could obtain it and send it to the committee.

Public Accounts committee  When a package is ordered by a citizen living in Manitoba, for example, which has a PST, if the package crosses the border in Manitoba, the GST and the PST will be collected. If the same package is coming to Canada, going to Manitoba but crossing into Ontario, the GST will be col

Public Accounts committee  If we have doubts on the accuracy of the taxes collected, we have concerns about the money that is remitted to provinces.