In general, Statistics Canada has a relatively restrictive policy when it comes to corporate data. For example, take the foreign direct investment data presented by Professor Loomer earlier. Certainly, the data exists, but the income generated by corporations in tax havens is not public. I have tried to get it, but that data is not public. It is only aggregated among several countries.
That is a signal that Statistics Canada has trouble disclosing this type of data. But that institution collects the data, because it is bound to do so via the country by country reporting. Making that data public would be a first step. However, it is up to Parliament to make it so that data is public. We have the data, but we need the political will to make it public.
