Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
With the government closing whole sections of Statistics Canada, I might conclude from its actions that I should just resign rather than get some kind of picture, albeit an imprecise one, of the situation. I wonder what its intentions really are.
Listen, Mr. Chair, let me use another analogy. You know that the unemployment rate in Canada and in its various regions is done by surveys. You do not count each jobless person one by one. It is done by sampling.
My colleague Mr. Rankin is trying to achieve the same goal, to get some idea of the size of the problem and, as a result of that, to stop moving forward completely in the dark. That is perfectly reasonable. I hope that the government will decide to confront it one day. Otherwise, the fight against tax evasion will always be a very half-hearted one with disappointing results.