Broadly speaking, the charitable sector in Canada is one we are all broadly encouraging. I look around this table, and all of us have appeared at events and donated money. I look at the recent tragedies in Nepal. Many of us and our constituents give generously.
Here is the conundrum I have with the way the law is described, particularly as you have outlined it, Mr. Carter. I donate to the Red Cross, Oxfam, or Feed the Children, and they go in to help provide aid in Kandahar to children going to school. The one section of the act that you outlined, in terms of the culpability of the board of the Red Cross, Oxfam, or any of these charitable organizations, seems to put a lot of liability on the board for being able to determine if any of that aid ever ended up in the hands of someone who later committed a terrorist activity. In places, particularly in international development and international aid, this is challenging.
How do we square this? The intention is right. We don't want Canadian funds passing through legitimate charities and then ending up in the hands of people looking to do harm there, or to us. How do you assign culpability to a board of directors in Canada—for example, Save the Children, which provides $100,000 worth of food aid and school books—if some of that food or materials end up in the hands of a terrorist entity?