Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I, too, would like to thank everyone for all the great work that all of your organizations do. Specifically in our community of Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo, some great work is happening.
I think we've had four suggestions now. We've had the stretch tax credit. We've had raising from 27% to 42%.... We've had the real estate and private shares. Those are really the substantial suggestions that have come forward in terms of the opportunities.
What I would like to focus my first question on, though, is the real estate. Perhaps I'll address this to Mr. Robinson.
Certainly when we heard from Karen Cooper at the Canadian Land Trust Alliance, she talked about how the extension of the capital gains exemption to gifts of real estate will undermine the existing ecogift program, which was of course first established to combat habitat loss and to conserve important wildlife habitat and ecologically sensitive lands. From her perspective, I guess, she was really thinking that some of the others would be preferable, because she was quite concerned about the impact in terms of her organization.
I note that you actually were speaking in favour of that. Would you please give us your perspective on that particular issue?