Mr. Speaker, it takes quite some nerve to compare these centres to big banks. Must I remind the House that big banks make astronomical profits, while the cost of banking services is not going down, far from it?
We can look at the subsidiaries of big banks that are located in tax havens. I will remind the House that there are 21 subsidiaries of Canadian banks in Barbados, 10 in the Cayman Islands, nine in the Bahamas, three in Bermuda, two in Jersey.
In fact, I invite my colleague to say this in his riding and to ask his constituents for their opinion, to find out if they consider it normal for big banks, which make astronomical profits and do not hesitate to increase banking fees, to be protected by tax conventions that benefit them and their senior executives, to the detriment of Quebeckers and Canadians?
So I am turning the question around and inviting him to ask it to his constituents.