Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Minister, you said a little earlier that it is important to put public finances in order. The problem is that this does not only imply controlling spending, but also controlling revenue.
Clearly, Canada has a serious problem with tax havens and aggressive tax planning. That is being stressed in every budget. If we simply eliminated the possibility for aggressive tax planning, I have a feeling we wouldn't even have to think about fighting the deficit.
You also said that Canada is a safe haven for doing business. That is clearly the case since private companies have accumulated $500 billion. Our problem is that that money does not turn into investments. If only a fraction of the amounts accumulated by private businesses turned into investments and if, instead of asking them to make investments, we had legislation forcing them to make those investments, we could considerably reduce the number of unemployed, which is at 1.7 million. If those unemployed people had a job to go to, we would not have any deficit problems.