This could be an interesting thing for this committee to explore at some future date.
Having run a small business myself, you start to realize that when you hand it over to your accountant the costs aren't always the costs, depending on the complexity of what you're asking to do.
Do we have a term for the extra...? I'm just looking through this particular....
I think I should comment on process, for our witnesses. Some of you have been at committees before.
This bill is over 330 pages long. It has 30 separate parts. We're going through parts 1 to 4 right now, in an hour and a half. As to any pretense that this bill is getting proper scrutiny, I think you should remove yourselves of that idea. It's very difficult, I would suggest, for all committee members on both sides to actually have decent scrutiny over the implications of what is proposed in such large a piece. So much is put into these omnibus bills. There are measures, like for yourself, Mr. Blackmore, that are affecting some Canadians in search and rescue, other measures that increase the complexity of the tax code, and other measures around whistle-blowers.
I'd like to spend some time here, Mr. Eljarrat.
We have two distinct scenarios in which we're imagining someone coming forward and saying that either someone is cheating on their taxes—and this would be someone in your profession, someone from Madame Presseault's group—or somebody maybe is suspected of contributing to a terrorist organization. Are they distinct within the law? Forgive me, but I'm not familiar with your world. I'm trying to understand. Are those viewed differently by the federal government, or are those two scenarios accepted and considered in the same breath when dealing with the tax code?