I just thought I would take a stab at it, Mr. Chair.
That is appreciated.
If you can't shed any light on that, I think the record should reflect the fact that 25 meetings took place from 2011 to 2015, again under the previous government, involving SNC-Lavalin.
I thank my colleague, Mr. Fergus, for his work on that as well and for bringing that to light.
Now, perhaps we could get back to Bill S-6. I want to take my parliamentary duty seriously, so I will stay focused specifically on that. You say in your brief here that the objective of Bill S-6 is to encourage trade and investment.
There are a number of bullet points listed and in particular, in number one, you say that it “provides greater certainty to taxpayers regarding their liability to tax in the other country”.
In laypersons' terms and for those folks who are not immersed in Parliament but who are looking at this and want to know the gist of the bill, how does this improve upon the current situation?
Give me an example of why there's a problem now and how Bill S-6 helps to provide “greater certainty to taxpayers regarding their liability to tax in the other country”.