Thank you, Mr. Brison, and thank you for your support in previous years. Thank you to the current government for cutting the capital gains tax on donations of public securities.
We do support in principle any measure that will support more giving to charities in this country. My members have asked me to tell you that we support the stretch tax credit proposal of Imagine Canada. It's not that we don't support the idea of eliminating capital gains tax on donations of private company shares; we do. But we know that the government has choices to make. We know that you can't do everything, much as we would like that. So we chose this year to support the stretch tax credit proposal because we would like to see more giving by smaller donors. We want to enlarge the base of donors in the country. I think that's a very important thing to do for the future.