I absolutely think it is important that we continue to participate. In fact, Canada typically plays an important role within the OECD, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, which is the main international body that drives international tax reform efforts. They're the ones that in 1996 began, through their harmful tax competition project, attacking aggressive international tax avoidance by multinationals, but it also has led to attention focused on international tax evasion.
It's important to continue our participation, but the OECD is only 30 countries. It's sometimes referred to as the rich countries' club. It's highly criticized by the Bahamas, Barbados, and elsewhere for ignoring their interests. All non-OECD countries, of course, don't play a formal role. Increasingly, the OECD is giving them observer status so they can at least watch and maybe deliberate some of these international reform efforts.
Yes, we have to keep pushing internationally, but just given the political economy of what's out there, countries have always been very reluctant to bind their tax systems together. We all want to preserve the political right to make whatever taxes we wish, unlike in trade laws and other areas that I mentioned. So that's the main barrier. On the one hand, we realize we need enhanced global cooperation, and on the other hand, the U.S. and certain other countries, at times, prefer a go-it-alone approach that maybe inhibits our addressing this problem in a multilateral fashion.