Thank you, Mr. Chair, and welcome, gentlemen, to the finance committee. Thank you for your testimony.
The numbers that are being raised surrounding tax evasion and tax havens are absolutely astounding. At a time when governments are struggling to find the resources to deal with, in Canada, an infrastructure deficit of over $100 billion, rising student debt, and many other problems, and struggling to balance our own books, it seems astounding that we would not make tackling tax havens an absolute priority.
Let me start with Mr. Wrobel from the Bankers Association. We've heard the OECD this week call for tough new rules to deal with tax evasion and tax havens. We've heard some witnesses call for that today. Do you agree that we need to have disclosure and eliminate the secrecy or reduce the secrecy that we're facing today, especially in the international banking sector, and that we need to have tough new rules to deal with tax havens?