Mr. Speaker, I listened to my colleague across the way. He commented about many of my Quebec colleagues, the 41 members of Parliament in the Liberal benches from Quebec. What I would like to emphasize to my friend across the way is that when he implies that they are not effective, when it comes down to fighting tax evasion and fair taxation of policies, the Quebec members of Parliament on this side of the House not only have been strong advocates for it, but they have also voted in favour of initiatives.
I would go to the 1%, for example, where we apply the tax on Canada's 1% wealthiest. Those Quebec MPs voted in favour of it. The Quebec MPs on the other side, and particularly in his party, voted against it. We also voted in favour of hundreds of millions of dollars in our budgets to go after tax evaders. The NDP voted against that.
My question to the member is this. Here we have yet another progressive piece of legislation. The Liberal members of this House, particularly the ones from Quebec, will be voting in favour of this legislation. Will the member be voting in favour of this legislation? If so, can he tell the House why it is he voted against those measures in two previous budgets to fight tax evaders, where hundreds of millions of dollars were allocated?