Mr. Speaker, that clearly is still not attributable to just GST. That is the fraud in general. She has used those figures before.
The government's refusal to heed the warnings has made it complicit in the crimes of those who are bilking Canadians of billions of dollars in GST rebates. In fact, it took the parliamentary secretary on Friday to confirm that the government has known all along that drug dealers, gun dealers and organized crime have been abusing the system.
Why did the minister do nothing to stop this? Do we have to wait for her parliamentary secretary before we get a straight answer again?