Mr. Speaker, in making his budget public last week, the Minister of Finance announced his intention to establish a technical committee of outside experts on the business tax system. Some of its members are representatives of accounting firms that have affiliates in
countries considered as tax havens and advise big business on how to avoid paying Canadian taxes.
My question is to the Minister of Finance. How can he believe that the public will have confidence in a committee whose membership includes people whose own firms take advantage of tax havens, and whose very business consists precisely in advising clients on how to reduce or eliminate completely taxes payable to Revenue Canada?