Thank you, Chair.
I know we're mostly talking about tax credits and things that could help charitable organizations, but there are more than tax credits that governments can use to help or create an environment for helping organizations, especially organizations that do development work in other countries.
What we have seen—and this is the finance committee, so we're well aware of it—is a $380 million cut to the CIDA budget. What's happening with the present government is that they're cutting off quite a few NGOs that are not ideological in their thinking. We have in Quebec alone 30 or 40 NGOs that are not going to be receiving money from the present government.
When that happens, I'm assuming it triggers.... Many times you have donors who donate money to a charitable organization that's doing work internationally. If it doesn't receive that money to do work in Africa, for instance, the project will not continue.
My question is this. When that happens, and if there are 30 or 40 organizations or NGOs in Quebec that are not going to get funded, does that put that organization in jeopardy in terms of people funding it? To what extent should governments be consistent here? There's no doubt they should review what a charitable organization is doing, if they're funding it. But is it a big problem when a government comes in and stops funding all these charitable organizations? And what happens to the donor in that case?