Thank you for the question. I'm glad you're paying less tax. It's a good thing. I was unaware of that directly. Don't worry, I can't check, so it's all right.
We've done things before on this issue of funding of political parties. We have a fairly generous system, as you know. If people make donations to political parties they get a significant tax credit in Canada. Back in 2006 we eliminated large personal donations federally, and we also banned donations from corporations and unions.
In this bill we are going to follow through on the campaign commitment to phase out per vote subsidies for political parties. So the subsidy will gradually be reduced from $2.04 per year per vote in increments of 51¢ starting April 1, 2012. It will be completely eliminated by 2015-16, and there'll be a savings there for the federal treasury of about $30 million by 2015-16.