Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Welcome to our witnesses.
I want to revisit the search and rescue volunteers tax credit and the volunteer firefighters tax credit for a second. It was my understanding that the changes to this tax credit will allow someone who does both, participates in search and rescue and is a volunteer firefighter, to actually combine hours. If they have 100 hours of search and rescue and 100 hours as a volunteer firefighter, they will qualify for the credit.
In most of rural Canada, many of these search and rescue volunteers and volunteer firefighters may not get their full 200 hours of volunteer time. So this opens this credit up to a tremendous number of volunteers. Do we have a real number or do we have an estimate of how many more people will qualify under these changes?