Finance committee  Thank you for your question. We are also asking for additional funds for the Canada Revenue Agency. I don't know exactly what the CRA's shortfall is, but I know that another Canadian group, Canadians for Tax Fairness, had estimated it to be about $500 million. That said, I don'

Finance committee  That is an excellent question. We, and I include our members, have not decided on that specifically. The most important thing is that it provide Canadian tax authorities with the necessary tools to do their work. Afterwards, you will have to decide between making that registry p

Finance committee  Yes, certainly.

Finance committee  The example we chose was the Google Tax. It has been in place in England for several years, and its objective is to tax the profits that are shifted. So, they do a type of profit estimation of the income that should be taxed, but is not. It is taken for granted that there is abus

Finance committee  In writing that, we did not wish to call into question the existence of tax treaties to avoid double taxation, or tax information exchange agreements. As we said, the purpose of the BEPS framework is to automate that process, simplify it and include a maximum number of countries.

Finance committee  I'm going to answer in French. You are saying that it's very difficult to quantify because it's illegal. It is even more difficult to quantify when people abuse largesse or profit from gaps or grey areas in the law. No, we don't have data, because practically no one has any yet.

Finance committee  I don't want to get into the technical details, especially since I do not have any technical documents about this with me. We could discuss this outside of these consultations. The objective of such a report would be to ensure that tax authorities, in particular, know where the

Finance committee  Thank you. I'll speak in French, but if you have any questions in English, that's no problem. My name is Samuel-Élie Lesage. I am the coordinator of the Échec aux paradis fiscaux collective, a coalition that includes Quebec unions, community organizations and student associatio