I'd like to pick up on a comment that Mr. Rajotte made about the charitable tax credit. I want to thank you for your clarification. The Minister of Natural Resources had talked about environmental and other radical groups, and the Minister of the Environment had talked about charitable organizations engaging in money laundering by using donations for political activities. There has been a great deal of apprehension about the charitable tax credit.
As I understand it, fewer than 2,000 of the 85,000 charities in Canada take foreign donations, the largest being organizations like CARE Canada and World Vision Canada. The only environmental organization in the top ten is Ducks Unlimited.
I'm unclear what the minister is referring to. Have CRA officials clarified to ministers that this is an arm's-length process, and not a process that can be used for targeting opinions they don't like?