I would like to clarify one thing, again, by setting up precisely what this bill does. Currently there's a limit on how much political spending or activities a charity can do that the 10% limit.... It's actually expressed in the legislation as “all” or “substantially all” of your activities can't be political. The general rule of thumb for that is that it's commonly interpreted as 90% or 10%, so that's where that number comes from. You won't actually see 10% in the bill.
There is currently a prohibition, even within that rule, that allows for up to 10% of the activities of a charity to be political in nature. It says that those activities cannot be partisan in nature. That's a currently existing rule in the Income Tax Act and that's not going to be changed.
What is being changed is essentially the 10% limit. Previously you could spend up to 10% of your resources on what you might call political activities, but they couldn't be partisan political activities. Now that 10% limit is lifted, but the requirement that they be non-partisan is maintained and is currently found in the law, so that's not something new that's being introduced by this bill.