As far as I know, they can't.
The example I would use is this. I make a donation to a Canadian company, and I'm retired and spend six months in the south of France. If I say, “Send the receipt to my address in the south of France”, then I get it there. I would then file the receipt with my income tax to get a deduction for my tax. I think this is something along the lines of what happened here.
The assumption that we were somehow nefariously trying to hide the real identity of the donor.... The cheque came from Millennium Golden Eagle International (Canada) Inc. The receipt was made out to Millennium Golden Eagle International (Canada) Inc. This is why I think there needs to be an independent investigation in this whole thing.
Somebody not only needs to look at the documents but also needs to bring in the people at the Trudeau Foundation who were there at the time. Frankly, maybe somebody should go and speak to the company in Dorval. Maybe somebody should speak to the Canada Revenue Agency about whether they thought there was anything untoward about this.
We had no malevolent intent. We thought, and we believed strongly, that we were complying with the law by sending the receipt to the person who made the donation.