Mr. Speaker, my question is for the revenue minister.
Over the past five years, Revenue Canada has audited the excise taxes of only one oil company and of no tobacco products manufacturers, thus risking the loss of millions of dollars, because there is a four year limitation on audits. In other words, after four years, you can no longer recover the money. We are not talking about smuggling here, but lax tax controls.
Can the revenue minister explain to us why her department did not do its job properly, letting millions of dollars that it can never recover disappear daily?