Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Thank you, Minister, for being here today.
I come from the riding of Leeds—Grenville. It's a rural riding. Often people don't think that arts and culture are important in ridings like mine, but in fact performing arts are very important in our area.
In budget 2006, our government decided to make some changes so people can “gift” securities on a tax-receiptable basis in order to help support the arts. I can tell you that this has been very well received. I don't know if you have numbers, but maybe you can tell us a little about the impact that budget change has made on the arts and arts groups. Could you tell us a little bit about the impact this change has had?