That is a very good question to which I have no answer. And I have no answer precisely because we are being presented with a committee of experts on which we have no seat. We would just like to work with this committee, which will include Price Waterhouse, and Ernst & Young, in taking a thorough look at taxation.
If, after that, we see that there actually are not a lot of companies using tax havens to evade taxes, we will bow to the facts. However, in 1992, the Auditor General of Canada spoke of billions of dollars, from what little he could tell, that were not being taxed and recommended a review of the tax system. What we are being served up is a phoney review, which will be carried out behind closed doors, without representatives of the government or the opposition or even the third party, without any sort of parliamentary representatives, and we are being asked to reply to questions to which we do not wish to reply.
I hope that my hon. colleague will be among those who will try to convince the government that there should be representatives of Parliament on this committee of so-called experts, and we will be able to give him figures at that time.