With regard to the Government of Canada's other tax policies concerning private businesses, so we're not talking about Crown corporations, the Department of Finance, in its group of tax experts on corporations and companies—I'm thinking of immense holding companies, without naming any; there are some very large holding companies in Canada—has a fairly specific tax policy that enables the Government of Canada and its senior officials to ask the Revenue Department to apply a specific type of segregation regarding profit levels. Whereas, in the case of private businesses, they are able to differentiate profits quite accurately, almost surgically—having been a private sector CFO, I'm asking you to believe that, when the Revenue Department knocks on your door, it's quite something—I wonder why, on the Crown corporations, they don't conduct that surgical operation that would of course enable Quebec to obtain its due.
On April 27th, 2010. See this statement in context.