In my part of the world, I've had a number of environmental organizations call to tell me how concerned they are about apparently aggressive auditing of their operations. This was after the $8-million plan to audit charities in 2012, where the minister referred to cracking down on “environmental and other radical groups”. An example would be where someone was told there was a clean audit, happy news, only then to be told that things had changed and the A-team was coming down hard on these environmental organizations.
I presume there's an arm's-length arrangement between the CRA and the government for political interference purposes. Is there some kind of arm's-length arrangement, or can the government be involved in—