Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for her speech today and thank her for clarifying some of what happened.
As the member is the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Revenue, I believe she has direct knowledge of this area.
I understand her argument about capital gains. She said that this was discovered when there was an update in the computer systems and a change in accounting. I believe I heard her correctly when she said that. With her direct experience, could she provide more background on what sort of computer change happened when this error was discovered?
Further to that, she talked about the period from 1993 to 1996 and from 1996 until 1999. The capital gains tax goes back to 1972, so this could go back even farther.
I know the previous speaker said that the government had not made a decision yet, but it does seem intent, through its opposition to the motion, on asking the provinces to pay the money back. If further monies are discovered and further errors are discovered with the provinces, because this does go back to 1972, will the government then ask for those monies back as well?