Mr. Speaker, I congratulate the member on his involvement. I am involved with the Yukon Anti-Poverty Coalition, Yukon Literacy Coalition, Yukon Learn Society, and the Skookum Jim Indian Friendship Centre.
I would like to ask the member if he has had the same experience with two special types of giving. Volunteerism is very important. I was shocked when the government cut money from the voluntary sector. The first type would be Yukoners, Newfoundlanders, people from rural Canada, people from small communities. In a small community there are several hundred of these NGOs asking for money and those people come forward with that money. The second type in a small rural community would be the few businesses that are asked by these hundreds of NGOs and they are very giving in special circumstances. Going door to door, I would meet people who had no money. I wondered if they could put food on the table, but they would come up with a few cents. That really moved me and made me proud to be a Canadian.