Finance committee  I think, particularly if you look to the United States, and I don't think Canada is that different, it's about values. If you actually look at donations by the political parties that people support—I'm not saying anything that's not known—the more conservative people are in their

Finance committee  No, in Canada as well. For those who claim to be Conservatives versus Liberals versus Democrats, and it's the same in the United States between the Democrats and Republicans, there is a direct relationship between their political alignment and their values of the role of governme

Finance committee  That's well documented on both sides of the border. That's exactly right, factually.

Finance committee  I'm a fan of the median if we're talking about all Canadians, because, as we recognize, something like 60% of the money donated comes from 10% of Canadians. There are extremely wealthy people, and I'll leave those guys to Warren Buffet to go after. I'm talking about a behavioura

Finance committee  I believe there are different data sources. The Canadian survey of voluntary giving and partnerships, which is run by StatsCan every three years, does quote that roughly 85% of Canadians give, and I think that's right. People have said, yes, they gave $5 to the Terry Fox run two

Finance committee  I think there's one other benefit to mention, which is that there's probably also marketing power. If a government made such a move and it got into the press, it would raise attention to the concept and why they are doing it. It would get people talking. There are other indirec

Finance committee  Yes. I don't mean to impute anything for the Canadian government; just looking at governments in austerity movements in Europe and elsewhere, many governments have deficits and huge debt loads. The need to more fiscally balance budgets requires a pullback in what they're spend

Finance committee  It's a very fair question. Our real goal is to try to avoid duplication. We have an advisory panel. Marcel, from Imagine, is on it; Ian Bird, from the Community Foundations is on it. Hillary, from PFC, is on it. Al Hatton, who is leaving the United Way, is on it. Hopefully Jacli

Finance committee  Yes. There was a national summit in Ottawa at the end of last November, and those four organizations that I just mentioned brought everybody together. It was very well attended—500 attendees. The idea was on how to promote the sector. There was not a whole lot that came out of i

Finance committee  Primarily that's the goal we see within our initiative, within GIV3. It is not to unfairly penalize the government in terms of costs, but instead to encourage and incent. In our experience, what happens is that at the higher-income levels people stop at an absolute level. They

Finance committee  Like tithing. So under the same tax system, if that group can do it, then what's missing with this group? A lot of it is defining, leadership, mentoring, education, and setting the social norm. And that's what we want to do.

Finance committee  I think our point of view is that anything that helps to encourage greater giving needs to be looked at. Obviously, it has a cost and benefit to it. Our point is that it can't be just tax policy. That alone won't be the difference.

Finance committee  I'm not sure exactly where the responsibility of the government stops and starts, but take something like ParticipAction, which has its own financing. Then the money itself is managed by a board and a team. The Own the Podium program is another one where money is assigned and the

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My name is John Hallward, and my day job is president of global innovation for a division of Ipsos. I want to start with a personal story that kind of summarizes what I'm here for and the other function that I represent. This started back when I was