Mr. Speaker, I would like to begin by thanking my colleague from La Prairie, and congratulating him on his excellent address to us this morning, and
particularly on the quality of his research. We can tell that he has made a special effort to seek out information that was not readily available, particularly all the different labels for tax shelters, which are supposedly in place to stimulate economic development-but we may well doubt that.
I would like to hear the comments of the hon. member for La Prairie concerning the reaction in various quarters, particularly within the Bloc Quebecois, to the setting up of the "expert committee" the Minister of Finance has seen fit to create for the purpose of evaluating the business taxation system.
One comment made was that, because of its membership, setting up a committee of this type is in some ways like setting the fox to guard the henhouse. I would like to hear the comments of my colleague for La Prairie in this connection since this appears rather strange even for some members who are tax shelter specialists, particularly at the international level.