I think it will encourage some families to enrol their children in these activities, knowing they'll get a tax credit. If we look across the socio-economic gradient and we think, who is going to benefit the most, if you're living in a neighbourhood with activities to begin with, you might be more likely to enrol your children in these activities because they're there. If there are no activities, you might not even be able to spend this money, or if you don't have the $500 up front to put your children in these activities.... It will definitely increase physical activity, but there could be some situations--if we look at the graph on page 8, if it's being used more in high-income neighbourhoods and less in the low, we could even increase our disparity; we could increase the gradient if it's being used differently among higher-income families and in higher-income neighbourhoods. We could even see a widening.
On October 26th, 2006. See this statement in context.