Madam Speaker, I am so pleased that this bill is coming to the floor of the House of Commons, and I thank the member for Simcoe North for bringing it forward.
He talked a bit in his speech about the urgent need for this bill because this addresses a problem that is getting worse. As recently as 2020, the CRA would at least, in an Order Paper question, give the dollar figure for the top writeoffs. Now it will not even do that, citing that it would allow people to guess or speculate which corporate entity, not individuals, may have had this large writeoff, when it is almost certainly a public company.
Does the member think that a public company that has its taxes written off by the government is entitled to its privacy and that this is not in the public interest? This is an urgent problem, and I would like him to add to his comments on its urgency.