Mr. Speaker, the auditor general said that the government has an approach which simply is not working and that the federal treasury is losing $12 billion a year. Again the government's solution is to hire more tax cops.
Let us look at the facts. The auditor general said that in 1994 a poll showed that 58% of Canadians would accept an offer to evade taxes when buying goods or services. In a poll taken last year that figure had grown to 73%. Fully three out of four Canadians said they would be prepared to evade.
Instead of hiring more tax cops to intimidate Canadian taxpayers, why does the government not find the real solution to the problem and provide Canadians with tax relief?