Yes. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

I'll elaborate little bit on the knowledge sharing platform, which I might refer to as the KSP. It started a bit before I arrived at the agency. The people who started it were very foresightful in what they did. It's an example where the agency showed innovation and contributed to a broad, global agenda.

Currently, I am the vice-chair at the forum of tax administrators, which is a group of about 50 tax jurisdictions around the world. One project that we, as Canada, lead is building capacity in developing countries. On your question of what we are trying to achieve with this thing, there's a movement.... As we look at the base erosion and profit sharing initiative of the OECD and the countries involved, this is imposing demands on all jurisdictions—developed and developing—to be able to have systems and rules in place to be able to better coordinate our activity as we try to battle global tax evasion.

Developing countries can find particular challenges in this area. Sometimes their tax systems are not as sophisticated as ours. Being able to implement the systems and rules in their jurisdiction requires building up their capacity.

As the forum of tax administrators, we have tried to contribute in the ways we can to transfer knowledge and some of the best practices we have, and share those experiences with developing countries as they try to build up their tax systems. It is not that we're perfect, but we certainly have things to share that should be helpful to these countries.

It certainly has a benefit for developing countries to the extent that we, as donors, can help them build their tax systems. It also helps us, as developed countries, and Canada in particular. In order to run the global tax system, it works better to the extent that we have good information sharing and good coordination. The better all of the countries' tax systems are, the better able we are to battle tax evasion on the global front.

That is the purpose of it. It's something that Canada has shown leadership in.

The KSP in particular was started as a prototype by CRA. It's part of the broader effort. We at CRA took the initiative to build the prototype. We took it to the point we could. The experience is that there is a demand for it. Lots of countries are tapping into it in its current prototype form to see what training material we might have and how they can access the expertise, documents and guidance that we have in developed countries.

This goes on. It's a web-based platform. It's an innovative way to transfer knowledge that's different from sending a person. We could send someone from Canada to these countries. There is still a demand for that, but this is a way of electronically disseminating that information.

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