When the Liberals asked you questions on this over the past few days, you answered that the government's decision—which we support even though the government did make a promise in this regard during the election campaign—was based on tax fairness and the fact that the tax burden needs to be distributed fairly among taxpayers. Do you not think that you should go further than what you have announced, in particular in dealing with tax havens? Two different auditor generals have mentioned that the use of tax havens by Canadian companies and taxpayers was chipping away at the tax base in Canada, and that is the argument that you used when you took action to deal with income trusts. Do you intend to do something about the use of tax havens as a tax-avoidance measure?
On November 9th, 2006. See this statement in context.