Or, seulement en 2000, des sociétés comme la Canada Steamship Lines—alors la propriété du député de LaSalle—Émard—, qui ont rapatrié des sommes de La Barbade sans payer un seul sou d'impôt, auraient versé plus d'un demi-milliard de dollars au fédéral et aux provinces sans l'infâme convention fiscale que l'ancien ministre des Finances a lui-même négociée.
In the year 2000 alone, companies like Canada Steamship Lines—owned by the member for LaSalle—Émard at the time—that transferred money from Barbados without paying a cent in taxes, would have paid the federal and provincial governments over half a billion dollars, were it not for the infamous tax convention the former Minister of Finance himself negotiated.