When it comes to being daring about getting information and looking into all our business, I think that the Canada Revenue Agency is out of date. They are still working with the social insurance number that dates from the same time in the 1940s when our unemployment insurance took the form of stamps in a little pink book. Some things evolve over time.
Let me come back to the question of political will. We were talking about Halifax just now and the subject got our colleague from the Maritimes upset. Yes, it is legal, but that doesn't mean that it is legitimate or ethical, when all is said and done. We have also seen a former minister of finance, a man who became the Liberal Prime Minister of Canada, using specific tax havens for his ships. That was not so long ago.
I would like to emphasize one point. You said that it was all very well to catch an individual who gets hurt as a result, but we also have to catch the company that, in tax terms, is worth a lot more than the individual. I do not know what you think about it, but following this kind of money seems to me to be the same as following drug money. You mentioned drug money, Mr. Deneault. It is all very well to want to arrest kids and prostitutes in the street taking who knows what and getting to the drug traffickers. Wouldn't it be more useful and more focused, at the same time as we are going after the individuals and companies that use tax havens, to go after the middlemen, the banks, the brokers and the professionals who help those people use the tax havens illegally, or too enthusiastically? Would that not be a way to go after the importer, the equivalent of the drug trafficker?