Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague opposite for listening to what I said. However, it is unfortunate that he did not listen a bit more carefully because he would have understood a whole lot better.
I never meant to question the integrity of the advisers that were chosen by the government. What I am saying is that you cannot serve two masters at the same time. Would the member accept that, for the next election campaign, the same strategic advisers work for both the Liberal Party and the Bloc Quebecois? Can he imagine that? Does he think that a perfectly honest person can advise both parties at the same time on the strategy they must follow to win the next election? If he understands that, he will certainly understand that an accounting firm, as honest as it may be, is in a conflict of interest position when it must advise both the government and those who take advantage of tax havens on the means to avoid one another. That is what it means to be in a conflict of interest position.
I just want to add a few words concerning other tax havens. There are things that are difficult to verify, but when you realize that 57 of the 119 subsidiaries of our six major Canadian banks are located in the West Indies, an area where tax havens abound, you have to wonder. There are 28,000 businesses for a population of 30,000 in the Cayman Islands. Unemployment must surely not be a problem in that area: 28,000 businesses for 30,000 people. If these corporations are not there because it is a tax haven, then we must ask ourselves some serious questions.