Mr. Speaker, I have never in my life seen so much lack of understanding in terms of how Revenue Canada works. The member is complaining about a specific case. I cannot comment on a specific case.
If the member needs a situation addressed, there are at least four steps I know of that he can go through in Revenue Canada before coming to parliament. Revenue Canada has a fairness committee. If you disagree with your tax assessment you can go there. And you can go higher and higher within the administration to the point where if you are not happy, you can go to the minister or you can go to court in order to find a way to resolve the problem.
I hope this gentleman is not suggesting to Canadians that they should not give their revenue information to Revenue Canada, that they should not tell Revenue Canada about some of their income. We live in a society where the only mechanism we have to support our social programs like health care is through our revenues. It is not an easy job collecting taxes. How would anyone like it? Tax and debt, everybody wants to run away from them.
It is a fact of life and the gentleman had better get used to it. We have to pay taxes for as long as we have social programs to support, for as long as we have to operate the government, for as long as we need roads to drive on and for as long as we have to move from one end of the country to the other. We have to have taxes. I do not like it but that is the way it is and we have to live with it.