Sorry, Mr. Chair. When the government officials were here and I asked whether they were aware of any aggressive tax planning done by a Canadian company operating in Madagascar, they said they weren't aware of anything, but they did say that they worked with the Canada Revenue Agency.
Would it be possible to call the CRA officials in that particular branch? There must be somebody out there in a branch that deals specifically with international tax compliance and who does some forecasting. I'm assuming that was done at some point on this particular application of the tax treaty, because I refuse to believe that in all of its operations, the government officials don't talk to each other to figure out, “If we do this, what will be the impact?” Looking specifically at the mining sector, they would then know which companies would be impacted.
Could we invite officials from CRA specifically who look after international tax compliance?