I don't know that it would be fair to say it's not an abuse. One of the opportunities with people who are aware of treaties, financial instruments, and all these other aspects is that they are able to create relationships and entities where you could use a term like “exploit” or “take advantage of”, but in isolation, each one of those transactions works within the law. It's only when you step back and look at it...and with the investment lately, we've had the capacity to look at a global investment scheme, whereas 20 years ago we'd have just been looking at the borrowing and the investment.
On May 8th, 2007. See this statement in context.