I'll try to clarify the existing state of affairs and speak a bit more about the example that you've just raised.
Under the current rules and under charity law, there are two types of political activities. There's the non-partisan type of political activity, which would be the support or opposition to a change in law or government policy, or something like that. These amendments are effectively designed to create some space for this. We're removing the restriction. Currently, charities are restricted to only devoting up to 10% of their resources in opposition to, or support of, some policy proposal or change in law. The concern was that charities felt unduly restricted in being able to provide their expertise to members of Parliament on particular issues that were of importance to them. These amendments are designed to remove those restrictions and allow charities to have unlimited ability to carry on political activities in furtherance of their charitable purposes.
The other type of political activity, which is currently prohibited for charities—and will be prohibited under the new rules—is any activity that involves the direct or indirect support of, or opposition to, a candidate for public office or a political party. Those will remain prohibited. Using the example that you gave, an organization was established for the protection of the environment and it wanted to raise its concerns about the pipeline or some other environmental issue. Under these provisions, the charity would be allowed to do that and would no longer be constrained by the 10% limitation. To the extent that the charity went further and started to directly or indirectly support a candidate for public office or a political party on the basis of the same issue, that would be prohibited.
To get back to a previous question, I think the devil will be in the details, obviously. Over the next couple of months, we will be thinking about and working on trying to be clear about what constitutes a partisan activity and what constitutes direct or indirect support of a political party or candidate for public office. There's some existing guidance on that, but we'll be focusing on providing more comprehensive guidance for the sector with respect to that.