Mr. Speaker, this government is working to address the issue of tax havens.
The following is an interesting quote from Jeffrey Owens of the OECD recently at the finance committee:
I talk to a lot of business people, financial advisers, investment banks. And the one thing that clearly has changed here is that if they get a Canadian client who comes to them and says, “Look, I want to evade taxes; perhaps I could use Barbados or somewhere else”, they'll say “Forget it. Those days are gone.” So there's been a change in attitude on the part of the business community, and that should not be underestimated.
This is thanks to the work of our government.