Your presentation this morning is interesting. In fact, you are talking about a duality, the tax credit and the grant.
The tax credit does not apply to not-for-profit organizations, but you have to think about maintaining the grants, and I do not think one is preventing the other. You say that the tax credit is more complicated than the grant and it makes the process more cumbersome. I don't think this is a reason for not being receptive to a tax credit.
You mentioned the children's fitness tax credit. The advantage of a tax credit is that parents, in the case of a child tax credit, must invest in society by taking concrete action to ensure that the money circulates, to allow for collective sharing and to allow other organizations to earn money. It's sort of the same principle.
Earlier, my colleague opposite mentioned that a tax credit favours the wealthy. However, I am from Quebec and I will give you the concrete example of the energy efficiency tax credit that the Government of Quebec grants for window repairs, for example. Not only the wealthy benefit from this tax credit, but anyone who owns a home. Sooner or later, they have no choice, they have to repair their homes, as time leaves its mark. That is why it is unrealistic to say that tax credits benefit only the wealthy.
I am the member for Portneuf-Jacques-Cartier. My riding is made up of three types of regions: urban, resort and rural. I share my colleague Mike Bossio's specific concern about investment in the regions.
What could we add to this bill to allow people in the regions—I am going to say rural regions, but this is not meant to be pejorative, far from it—like those of the major centres, to have access to this credit? What could be improved in the current bill to allow the credits to be distributed, or to encourage people in the rural sector to use the credit?