I'll maybe just speak on a few points.
On what research shows in terms of tax incentives, surely no research will show that 100% of people give because of tax incentives. That's clear. But pretty much all research has shown that it does play a role. The CSGVP, which is a big Statistics Canada survey on giving and volunteering that is done every three years, shows that just over 50% of Canadians said they would give more if the tax credit was more generous. The survey we just did with Ipsos Reid shows that 82% of people were favourable. One of the academics who appeared before you last week showed that her research was actually showing the same thing. It's not the only thing, absolutely, but we think it could make a real difference.
It's different from simply hiking the tax credit. The stretch element to it, in our sense, really would allow us to challenge Canadians and make it into something where.... We remember ParticipACTION. We remember that type of thing where we called upon Canadians to go further than they could actually go, or had gone in the past. The stretch element makes that so. It's a tax credit, yes, but I think the stretch is a bit different.
On the gaming front, these are essentially small donors. Some people will always be a bit more strategic in the way they do things. The experience we have had is—and I'm sure people like Len, who are very close to the people who are making those donations, would agree—very few people I know would want to hurt a charity, or push the money they want to give to the charity back out because they want a few more tax credit dollars in their pockets. That could happen. I really don't think that's how Canadians think of things, generally.
The last point is on the awareness of the tax credit. We feel that if this were to go forward, the Canada Revenue Agency would then be able to tell Canadians on a yearly basis, as they do for the RRSP, how much they can actually put into the whole stretch tax credit idea. That, I think, would raise awareness of the tax credit in a major way and would make a big difference.
Many Canadians don't know the tax credit actually exists. This would be a way to raise awareness and let Canadians know this is out there, and at the same time challenge them.