Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, Mr. Bilodeau, for coming to our meeting.
You may feel like you're in an inquisition, but in fact, this study is much broader than Cinar or the sword companies or the paradise papers or KPMG. We're trying to get to the bottom of how tax evasion can be eliminated.
My guess is we're not going to get to the bottom of it, but we're trying to make some progress. I'm glad you mentioned the OECD, because the OECD did come out with a very interesting report entitled “Ending the Shell Game: Cracking down on the Professionals who enable Tax and White Collar Crimes”.
I'd be surprised if we were able to get any accounting firm from across Canada to come to committee and admit that they've been engaged in tax evasion. They may even deny that they've been involved in tax avoidance, but as you've suggested, tax avoidance is different from evasion and is a matter of degrees and there is aggressive tax avoidance and there is just simple tax avoidance.