Finance committee  Just me.

Finance committee  I think that answers the question about whether or not you could directly support a candidate for office.

Finance committee  From an administrative perspective, if the bill is passed, what we've been asked to do is introduce practices that would improve reporting and provide more information to the public and to both donor and receiving organizations. I suppose that if at the end of the day, through t

Finance committee  It can be political activity, but it still has to be related to the purpose of the charitable organization.

Finance committee  I think one has to remember that the purpose of the organization, in the first place, has to be charitable and that any political activity they might undertake would have to be subordinate or directly related to that. It very much depends upon what the charitable purpose of the o

Finance committee  Sorry, the specific activity being...?

Finance committee  No.

Finance committee  I was going to ask whether it's a small c or a capital C.

Finance committee  It certainly would be inappropriate for me to make a judgment in isolation without looking at the entirety of the facts—the circumstances and other things. If there were concrete questions with real scenarios, then we'd get the best experts to look at those, but I'm hesitant in t

Finance committee  There's a principle, certainly under administrative law, that the minister has to act in a way that's consistent with the law and consistent with the expectation of due process and due consideration for items and decisions made within that law and within delegated authorities.

Finance committee  Yes. It's certainly not all for audits. A good chunk of the money will go toward modifying the system that allows for the information provided annually on a charity's return—the new information required—to be posted publicly. So a chunk of money is for systems renewal. There's al

Finance committee  First of all, the charity itself is accountable for being aware of the rules and self-assessing, and managing its affairs accordingly. Then that information, if these measures are passed, would be an additional piece in the reporting requirements annually. Then, yes, if there wer

Finance committee  We do some random audits.

Finance committee  I don't believe there are any new regulations, and the rules haven't changed. We have guidance up now that, again, won't be changed. So we will be looking at political activities the way we've looked at them before and the way we'll look at them going forward. I don't think the r

Finance committee  Like previously, we would define a process where we would have to be able to publicly show what are the considerations we would take into account in coming to a determination about eligibility for the foreign organization, and then we would be providing that assessment over to fi