Madam Speaker, perhaps the member can explain why her government has decided to renege on its promise to remove the tax writeoffs on the corporate tax options. It remains puzzling to us that the Liberals promise while they run and then when they get in government they say they will listen to the lobbyists.
The member and her colleagues raise the issue that they are spending $500 million of Canadian taxpayers' money over five years to try to catch tax evaders, yet they are not spending one cent to take these evaders to court and get convictions so that there will be punishment instead of gain. Simply paying back the money, what kind of a message is that to tax evaders? Okay, go ahead, follow this scheme and if they get caught they just have to pay it back but they will have profited by then anyway.