That is a fantastic question.
I think faith in the Canadian tax system is undermined when it becomes clear to the general public that some of the richest individuals and largest corporations are not paying their fair share and are avoiding taxes. I think that having the information out in the public and requiring multinationals, which are clearly dodging hundreds of millions of dollars in Canadian taxes, to disclose where they're shifting their profits to allows Parliament and legislators to actually see what's going on and address the problem.
This information is currently available only to OECD tax authorities. The Canada Revenue Agency gets this information, but it can't be used by people like yourselves in order to understand what is going on and what loopholes need to be closed in order to stop companies like Brookfield from shifting profits to Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Luxembourg and other such jurisdictions.
