Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My first question goes to Ms. Pearson. A colleague from Windsor, Brian Masse, recently proposed that charitable donations should be treated in the same way as political donations are at present for tax purposes. That is, that you get a tax refund of $300 on the first $400 in donations. Of course, we would have to be sure that donations were made only to charities that could provide a similar level of checking. The two clearly go hand in hand. There was good media response, especially an editorial in the [Editorial Note: inaudible], but there was not much resonance nationally.
I wonder if I can achieve some by asking you if you would be in favour of an initiative like that.