Mr. Speaker, in his latest report, the Auditor General found that accounts receivable totalled $6.6 billion.
Last Tuesday, the Minister of National Revenue said, in an attempt to downplay the problem, and I quote: "The total accounts receivable stopped growing last year and is now declining. I believe that we will continue to be able to reduce that sum".
Would the minister agree that last year, the proportion of unpaid taxes, compared with net tax revenues, continued to rise, which would indicate a significant deterioration of the situation?