Just when you're asking about a potpourri of ideas, I saw in one of the papers that someone put in a proposal that you allow 1% of total revenue for foreign donations.
Foreign donations are very difficult today. There used to be a time, going back historically in Canada, that you could do up to 10% of your dollars.... It would be part of the 20% of administration, not the 80% before...and charities could make donations to foreign charities. Now we're down to zero.
The Income Tax Act was changed and we're down to zero on that basis. Those who are in the business have to do an agency relationship, and if that's their basic business they should do that. But in terms of smaller amounts, it makes it very difficult for charities that are involved in some international research, other things, to make that $25,000 gift to a hospital doing research when it has to set up an agency relationship. It's too costly.