Mr. Speaker, the auditor general reported today that 4.5% of the gross domestic product is underground and that Revenue Canada hired 1,200 new auditors to find it and tax it. The Minister of Finance may think that more tax collectors make his bottom line look better, but what effect does he think that these tax cops will have on the bottom line of Canadian families? Why does he have a policy of squeezing more taxes out of Canadians rather than a policy of giving some taxes back?
In the House of Commons on April 20th, 1999. See this statement in context.