Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure to be here this evening.
I heard the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Revenue express dismay at having to speak at this hour of the evening. I remind her that many Canadians are working around the clock. I, myself, have worked shift work for many years. I think it is quite appropriate that we be here, sitting at this hour, debating something so important as the taxes Canadians pay.
Let me ask the hon. parliamentary secretary a question. It has been more than a decade since there was a technical tax bill passed by the current or the previous government. This bill contains more than 1,000 pages, many technical tax amendments.
We support the changes that are contained within this bill, but clearly the process is unsustainable. We have had to wait more than a decade for comfort letters to be put into an actual tax bill.
Can the parliamentary secretary tell this House what changes her government is making to improve the process, so that the changes that are made in tax legislation are actually passed into law? Will she finally tell us how the government is making a change to modernize the tax legislation in this country?