Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank our witnesses once again for joining us this evening. It is always a pleasure to have you with us.
I will start with a question for the Federation of Canadian Municipalities.
I'll speak in English, although I was very impressed with your French. So congratulations on that.
I'm going to ask you about a couple of measures that are in the Budget Implementation Act that I want your opinion on, to know whether or not we're going in the right direction.
First of all, I'm a police officer by trade—I'm on a leave of absence—and I worked very closely with firefighters over the 20 years I was policing. This was not just with the City of Winnipeg firefighters, but with some in rural municipalities. I know you have a number of firefighters working in your rural municipalities, and this volunteer firefighters tax credit that we've put forward seems to me to be a very important measure. We've heard from some folks who also see it as a good measure.
Do you know who Hans Cunningham is?