Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Bloc Quebecois released its analysis of the federal government's corporate tax expenditures. Of the $9 billion to $10 billion the federal government sacrifices annually in taxes not collected from major corporations, primarily, we estimate that the Minister of Finance could easily recover some $3 billion to be used in promoting job creation.
With the government going after the unemployed, cutting transfers for social assistance, transfers for health care and transfers for post-secondary education, how can the Minister of Finance justify still failing, after three years in power, to systematically evaluate all corporate tax expenditures, which have not been reviewed in years, and keeping them as they stand.