Mr. Chair, I would like to commend my colleague from the NDP for his thoughts and his words of wisdom.
I wonder what his take is and what his thoughts are on asking the government to extend the deadline from December 8 to the end of December, to the end of 2013, for the government to match individuals' donations dollar for dollar.
I know in the spirit of Christmas a lot of youngsters might not want to have presents. They might want to donate the money to their folks back home in the Philippines, from the Filipino community, or little children, Canadian children, from other ethnic minorities and from other walks of life might also want to join in on that.
I wonder if you would agree with me and our side of the House that the government should extend this to December 31.