Mr. Speaker, I listened with interest as the member of the Bloc argued this point about the tax ruling and the situation surrounding it. I am quite puzzled.
This is a highly complex area of tax law, despite the best intentions of the members of the Bloc and members like me. As the member for Willowdale pointed out, members of the Bloc had the opportunity to bring in their own experts but instead chose not to.
When the members of the Bloc stand up in this House it is usually to criticize members on our side for not answering their questions, but they have not really dealt with the question of why they did not bring in their own experts.
If they are saying the experts who were there were in the hands of the members of this party, that is a serious affront to the integrity of those professionals who did appear and it does not deal with the question of why they did not bring in their own experts.
When the members of the Bloc get up in the House it is really not to debate public policy. That has been my experience notwithstanding my short period in this House. When they get up it is to argue a parochial interest of the province of Quebec.
I wonder if their interest in this issue is not driven by fiduciary policy or interests of the Government of Canada and the people of Canada. Rather, they may be concerned about the flight of capital from Quebec not necessarily to the United States but perhaps to Ontario. It is known that this is happening which I think is tragic.
Perhaps the Bloc is positioning itself on this issue in terms of flight of capital. I cannot understand why it would have any other interest in this topic.