Over the years, the federal government has worked on the competition file and has gone as far as the Supreme Court to assert its authority in that field. One Supreme Court decision confirmed that it was a federal jurisdiction. So we have a Competition Bureau that enforces a competition act.
With regard to tax fraud, collusion is one of the most important aspects of that act. This has an enormous influence on public expenditures, when there is collusion in a public market with regard to a call for tenders or a request for estimates by a municipality or a province. There was one very specific case concerning the cost of snow removal from Quebec streets, and a $1 million fine was assessed to a number of businesses that were caught.
Is the Canada Revenue Agency working in close cooperation with the Competition Bureau to screen these files and verify whether everything is going well? The collusion cases were intimately related in this instance because a situation had to be covered up. Are you working on this file with the Competition Bureau?