Very quickly, Mr. Hallward, you mentioned that the rate of giving is decreasing. Have there been any studies of the relationship of that with taxes?
I think we're being a little hard on Canadians in general, because many of the things we're talking about, many of the very things that we've agreed to support through charities, have been taken over by government. So in essence, aren't Canadians, given to charitable donations...? I mean, they've been usurped to some degree.
As the second part of the question—maybe Mr. Carmichael might want to just touch on this—have there been any studies done on countries that have a high tax rate to see whether or not their giving is less than a country that has a lower tax rate? Have we hit a point where we've taken so much from people in taxes that there just might not be that much room left for charitable giving?
To wrap that up, should we, as a government, be thinking about continuing to lower our taxes so that things like charitable giving will start to increase again?