Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you to all the officials for being here.
Would you agree, Ms. MacLean, that not everyone has access to tax havens? Canadians get up every day and go to work. They collect their paycheques, they pay their share of provincial and federal taxes, they fill up their gas tanks and they pay gas taxes. It’s not true to say that there isn’t a tax on groceries, because farmers pay fuel taxes, and that cost is passed right on to consumers in the prices they pay for groceries. Ordinary Canadians are paying those taxes on everything.
Do you agree with me that the wealthy are the ones who benefit from tax havens?