Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of National Revenue. The ethics counsellor cannot say who owned the missing shares in the Grand-Mère Golf Club between 1993 and 1999. The golf club itself does not know.
Could the minister tell the House if the Shawinigan tax centre just down the street from the auberge golf club has a record of who owned the shares during this period?
I am not asking the minister to breach any taxpayer's privacy. The question is simple. Was the disposition of these mysterious shares declared on income tax records, or was no tax paid, or—