I too want to thank all the witnesses for being here today.
I'm going to ask a couple of questions. Mr. Bird, I'm going to give you a heads-up about the question I'm going to ask, because I'm going to come back to you. In your submission, you talked about some suggestions for regulatory changes. I'm going to ask you about those. I'll give you a chance to think about it, because I don't have the submission from the philanthropic foundations. I'll come back to you.
Mr. MacDonald, I happen to be a very big supporter of Big Brothers and Big Sisters. I sat on the board of Big Sisters before we amalgamated in Winnipeg. I happened to be, I think, the first parent of a matched child who ever sat on a board of your organization.
I'm going to ask you specifically about bequests, when people bequeath their property, because we have talked a lot about tax incentives, which, quite frankly, seem to target the same donors who are already donating, although we are looking to raise the number of donors. I'm looking for ways to target some of the folks we're missing. When I was policing, there were an awful lot of seniors who didn't have children and didn't have wills. We'd go when they suddenly died. I always wondered how we could educate, because unfortunately, many of those ended up in court settings. It's unfortunate, because some of these folks were linked to organizations.
The reason I'm asking you, Mr. MacDonald, is that when I sat on the board of Big Sisters, there was a large donation by an elderly woman of her home upon her death. I'm wondering if there are any things we as a government could do to encourage the bequeathing of property, given what I've seen and given that your organization has, as I know, benefited from it. If you don't have an answer today, I would like you, and all of you, to think about how we might target that.
I think what Mr. Hutchinson said about advertising isn't really a bad idea, because people might not know that these opportunities exist.
Do you have any comments about targeting people who don't donate?