Mr. Speaker, I listened carefully to the account the hon. member for Jonquiere has just given. I believe he has clearly taken into account the fact that since its election in this House the Bloc has never missed an opportunity to ask for a review of the Canadian tax system.
We asked for the abolition of family trusts and tax havens. We asked for some figures that were never made available to us. We talked about transparency every time we had a chance to do so, but without great success it seems. There even were some cases where members on the other side and even government members came to the same conclusion and rose in the House on that issue. My hon. colleague did the same thing today, apparently not for the first time but once more without great success. The member for Gander-Grand Falls himself denounces regularly, because he goes to Taxation, outrageous things that occur in taxation, among other things people who do not pay their income tax, which can be huge amounts.
I would like to ask my hon. friend if the crux of the problem is not the fact that we cannot discuss those problems in this House. The crux of the problem is the fact that people who finance political parties are those who decide how the government will act. We know that some people give astronomical amounts of money here. There even was a bill introduced by a member of the Bloc in this House, although maybe not for the first time, on the necessity to have a popular financing of political parties. The bill was rejected.
I wonder if my hon. colleague does not believe that the saying according to which he who pays the fiddler picks the tune is relevant to political parties who, receiving huge financial support from banks and other important institutions, are forced to pass tax laws which serve the interests of these contributors rather than fair laws for all? I would like to know where my hon. colleague stands on this.