I'll take that question, Mr. Chairperson.
We do have guidelines available that lay out our interpretation of what's allowable under the Income Tax Act.
Registered charities are allowed to participate in political activities. By political activities, we mean when there is a call to political action, so it could be urging the public to contact their MPs or an explicit communication by a charity that a particular piece of legislation or a decision should be changed. Those are political activities, in our view.
Charities are entitled to undertake those types of activities so long as it's non-partisan--which is essentially support for or opposition to a political party or a candidate to public office--so long as the activities are connected to the organization's purposes, and so long as those activities remain a small part of what the charity does, and that's where the 10% limit comes in. Looking at all of their resources, we would determine whether they are beyond that threshold.