The reason I move this motion is that the financial adviser to the Prime Minister, who already announced he's going to run for public office for the Liberal Party, is on the board of Stripe; the Minister of Finance made this grandiose announcement that we're doing this great thing for small business and reducing fees when, in fact, one of the prime and growing companies in Canada that provides that process is actually refusing to implement it; and all the while a board member is not only advising and governing the company but is also advising the Prime Minister and then blocking what the Government of Canada wants to do.
The only way we're going to get to the bottom of some of this is to actually know just how profitable Stripe is. The only way to know whether or not its claims that its costs are going up, that it has to charge Canadians more than it does in the United States and Europe, and that the GST somehow hurts it, is for Stripe to be transparent and reveal the documents. As a committee we have the right to ask for the production of documents from witnesses when they've given testimony, and that's what I'm doing here today.
I hope my colleagues will support us in this.