Researcher Vivian Krause appeared before this committee recently and revealed that wealthy fraudsters have been misusing fake charitable vehicles for undue personal benefit. She gave the example of Gerald Butts, who received $400,000 from the World Wildlife Fund as severance when he voluntarily quit.
She also indicated that CRA has reported that in an audit of 42 charities, 41 of them were found to be non-compliant with the rules. She also demonstrated that charitable structures are being used to fund anti-Canadian energy activities that are unrelated to any sort of charity.
The only reason this and other scandalous misuse of the tax system has come to light is because of CRA's online database in the charitable tax directorate. One week after Ms. Krause testified here, your agency decided to take literally a million records off that publicly reported database. Why?