To answer your first question, in what are called 990 tax returns of 501(c)(3) charitable foundations, they're required to report a couple of things. One is the grants that they make—the recipient, the stated purpose, the amount, and the date. If that information were publicly available from Canadian foundations then, for example, we'd know what Tides Canada has done with the $60 million that it got from American foundations.
Another important piece of information is who is being paid, in terms of the PR firms and other for-profit businesses that are funded. In the U.S., charitable foundations are required to report the five highest payees or contractors, and the amounts that they were paid. They're also required to report the names and the exact amount of the salary of the five highest-paid employees. So it's those three things—the grants and the details of the grants, the details of the highest-paid contractees, and the details of the highest-paid employees.
Perhaps I could answer your second question by telling you that in July of last year I was invited to New York by a small American think tank, the Atlas Economic Research Foundation. They convened a meeting with some of the top American journalists in the New York area who cover the energy sector—people from Forbes, Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, and others. They said to me, “What's going on? Don't you have any lawyers in Canada? Why aren't you suing these foundations?” They couldn't believe that we were just letting this happen. One guy told me that unless you get your lawyers down here, they're just going to be laughing all the way to the bank.
That was their reaction. As far as Congress, I don't know, but I can tell you that was the reaction of the journalists around the table when I met with them in New York.