Recently, another witness came to speak with us about the taxation of oil companies' windfall profits. It's a very interesting aspect. There are also issues of provincial and federal jurisdiction, because although corporate income tax is also a federal matter, this portion specifically comes from resource revenues in a particular sector. There are complications associated with this, but regarding the source of these profits, we in the Bloc Québécois have always maintained that we must stop subsidizing oil companies, stop subsidizing their technologies, stop giving them tax credits, stop paying for their pipelines, and so on.
Don't you think that, in a way, the starting point should also be to say that it is not the Canadian government's role to subsidize oil companies and make some of their projects profitable for the private sector when they would not be otherwise? Doesn't that also have a role to play?
