Mr. Speaker, I shall be very brief. Today, the Bloc Quebecois released its analysis of the federal personal income tax system. There has been no real examination of the Canadian tax system for over 30 years. It would, however, be easy for the Minister of Finance to increase the equity of the Canadian tax system and to recover cash
from numerous tax shelters which are costing us dearly at a time when no one is having an easy time of it.
At a time when the government is squeezing the unemployed, cutting transfer payments, hunting for money everywhere, how can the Minister of Finance provide us with any serious explanation for the fact that, in three and a half years, he has not found a way to systematically assess personal tax expenditures in Canada, particularly those of rich taxpayers.