I would just say that CRA revised the T3010, the main form, so that for the average charity they're probably only filling in four pages. If they do other things, like foreign activities or they have employees or revenue over $100,000, then they'll fill in additional schedules.
But I would point out that if you look at the U.S. form 990, just to take an example, World Vision would file, say, 20 pages in Canada and 350 pages in the U.S. So in the U.S. they're asking for a lot more information, and also in the U.K.
The point is, when you are involved with having this important ability to issue tax receipts that is very valuable and you want there to be a level playing field, with the public being able to, at least, if they're interested, access the information, one needs to think about it. Even to add questions, even on a voluntary basis to add another page of questions, just a few questions, could add tremendously to what the T3010 has.
I agree, we don't want to impose a huge burden, but, for example, the T3010 doesn't ask if you have volunteers, it doesn't ask how many volunteers, how much value that provides to your charity. I think it's too dominated by financial information, which for some charities is important, but for some charities there's very little money involved; it's people doing good work in their communities, and I think the T3010 could ask more about that.
Not to mention if we're talking about governance, there are some really good questions one can ask about governance if one is worried about some of the charity governance issues, and they do in the U.S. and the U.K.