Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Finance.
In March we became the first parliament in the world to endorse the idea of a Tobin tax, a tax on international currency speculation. Yesterday the Bank for International Settlements said that the currency transactions are now up from $1.3 trillion a day to $1.5 trillion a day, an increase of over 20%.
In light of that, I wonder if the Minister of Finance will be raising the issue of the Tobin tax at the G-8 meeting in Germany in June. At that time, would he be willing to express the will of parliament and raise the issue of the Tobin tax, the question of speculation on international currency?