Mr. Speaker, I am glad that the parliamentary secretary is interested in this situation, but it is a lot worse than that. It requires prosecution. It requires real effort by the government to achieve something that it has known about and has seen coming for a long time.
In 1990 the government was warned by New Zealand that this was a potential problem. In 1996 when it revised the GST act, the government was told it was a problem. Instead of taking action, it chose to operate on the honour system and millions of dollars of taxpayers' money went out the door.
Why did the government choose to ignore the warnings that the GST input--