Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. member for the first three-quarters of his speech in which he outlined the precise reasons why it is important for this new revenue agency to be set up. He outlined very clearly and very sincerely all the areas in which Canadians want and deserve better service. I therefore thank the hon. member for giving such wonderful support from the Reform Party for this new revenue agency.
The member spent the last portion of his speech talking about a different issue, the Nisga'a agreement. I overheard some colleagues commenting that when the member had a problem with 60% in favour and only 40% opposed, what about that 40%? He said it was terrible but this is the party that argued that 50% plus 1 was okay to break up the country. What irony; 60% is not good enough for a treaty but 50% plus 1 is good enough to break up a country.
The member did touch on two items relevant to the bill or at least what he thought was not in the bill. First was the issue of an ombudsman. He answered his own question by suggesting that members of parliament do have these special facilities to communicate on behalf of their constituents with Revenue Canada. Therefore Canadians do have an ombudsman. In fact, they have 301 ombudsmen. Each and every one of us has that responsibility. I know we have all served our constituents.
The other item, and this is the point of the question I would like to pose to the member, was with regard to the taxpayers bill of rights. It is an interesting notion. Would the member articulate two or three examples of what might be included in a taxpayers bill of rights?