Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon., member for the question. He is, without a doubt, the most effective MP the good people of York Centre have had in a very long time.
I also want to thank him and all the members of the finance committee for their recent report on helping charities. I want to extend my thanks to the member for Kitchener—Waterloo, in particular, who was the member who initiated that important study and was the strongest champion of Canada's charities among all parliamentarians.
In response to the committee's findings, economic action plan 2013 proposes a new, temporary, first-time donors super-credit designed to encourage new donors to give to charity. This super-credit would increase the value of the federal charitable donations tax credit by 25 percentage points if neither the donor nor his or her spouse has claimed the credit since 2007. This new credit would make it significantly more attractive to donate, especially for young Canadians who are more likely to be making a donation for the first--