Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Thanks to all our witnesses for being here.
It's ironic that Canadians were asked last week to file their income taxes in the midst of a pandemic and that Canadians are paying their income taxes, yet we're now talking about tens of billions of dollars that are simply being taken overseas and are not subject to that common good and that collective investment that advances Canadians.
I would like to start with Ms. Watson. Thank you very much for your very important testimony today.
I want to reiterate that as you were doing all of your due diligence and all your work to try to get back the money after the fraud, you were told by every government agency representative, including the RCMP, that there was no way to get that money back once it left the country and went to an overseas tax haven.
Is that correct?