Finance committee  I really haven't done any research in that area, but by nature, corporations are making decisions in much different ways than households do. Corporations generally would probably require a larger incentive to increase their giving than individuals and households would.

Finance committee  I would support the idea of a single-level tax credit at a level higher than the current lower level.

Finance committee  The results of this research, which show the varying levels of responsiveness to the same change in tax credit, would suggest that there could potentially be different tax credits for different sectors. Now, on the government level, it's getting kind of messy, but potentially the

Finance committee  Sure. Our study was based on behaviours rather than on the survey question directly asking individuals whether a tax credit was important to them. I agree that statistically it's a difficult thing to test. The Canadian survey of giving, participating, and volunteering asks a sp

Finance committee  Okay, thank you. The results of the two research studies suggest that tax incentives have a significant effect on both the likelihood of Canadians making a donation and on the amount of the donation, suggesting the ability of government policy to be successful in influencing bot

Finance committee  I have to say that we didn't make those calculations; we just went to the extent of calculating the price elasticities themselves. The assumption or the statistics suggest that those percentages could be applied to the fiscal information. I'm sorry, I don't have that information

Finance committee  Thank you to the committee for inviting me to participate in this meeting today. I'm an assistant professor at Thompson Rivers University, in the Department of Economics. I have a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Manitoba. A colleague of mine, Dr. Belayet Hossain, and I