I think a key principle that underpins the current legislation and that will remain true under the proposed legislation is that charities have to be constituted and operated for exclusively charitable purposes.
There are four main heads of charity: the advancement of education, the relief of poverty, the advancement of religion, and other types of activities that have been determined to be charitable by the courts. Those would include the environment, human rights, health. Any activities, any non-partisan, public-policy dialogue that is considered to be in furtherance of those charitable purposes would be considered. Those are the means, but as long as the end continues to be the furtherance of those charitable purposes, it will be permitted under the legislation, without limit.
It will be for the Canada Revenue Agency to determine specific cases, but by way of example, as we mentioned, one of the four heads of charity is relief of poverty. If an organization decides that most or pretty well all of its activities are based on the idea that changes in existing laws are the best way to achieve its stated charitable purpose, which is relief of poverty, and it's done in a non-partisan way that avoids both direct and indirect partisan activity, then that's permitted. The legislative proposals are intended to encompass, to allow, that activity.