Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My question goes to the Department of Finance, possibly to Mr. Richardson.
We find out in this budget that section 18.2 of the Income Tax Act is going to be repealed. The use of tax havens has been denounced as a strategy for a long time. The Auditor General of Canada has mentioned it a number of times. She even made a point of saying that Canada had lost hundreds of millions of dollars in the last 10 years. In 1994, she found that there was a tax shortfall of $3.5 billion. Even Minister Flaherty wanted to keep the section in 2007.
You are saying that the budget contains stimulus measures, but can you tell me how this approach, by which I mean repealing section 18.2, constitutes an economic stimulus? Is this not going to harm small to medium-size enterprises that want to do business too?