Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, gentlemen. It's been a circus here, and I appreciate your patience.
I've had a high degree of interest in this, having come through a bill I championed, which was recently defeated, on single-event sports wagering. The United States has moved ahead with this in a 6-2 decision and will now, basically, be a bastion for organized crime related to sports betting and also a flag-bearer for nefarious offshore operations that will receive Canadians participating in their operations.
One of the things that is clear about some of the work we did on Bill C-25, with regard to beneficial ownership, is that Canada is considered a laggard in terms of its international reputation for dealing with beneficial ownership. I do want to say, though, for the record, that in terms of public and private disclosure, it's interesting that you can, with that corporate number, ask for the public to subsidize you for everything from your entertainment business expenses to writeoffs, a series of different things, but you don't actually have to disclose ownership of it. You get all the benefits of the public subsidy, being tax deductions, but you don't have to actually disclose what it is that you are....
I would like your comments. What would be the criminal reasons for not wanting to actually provide that public identity?