I just think most recently of our Ukraine response. In the initial days of our combined response, as an international organization we struggled to identify a specific aspect of our Samaritan's Purse work that is only one work in Ukraine and to identify our own activities. We struggled to come up with a legal agreement and arrangement with our international headquarters to take on all of the operations of our Moldova office for a period of time. Instead of really being able to contribute to the full aspects of what it was that we were doing as an organization, we had to hive off a specific part of it and create a legal agreement that would make those our own activities.
Organizations all across Canada are carrying out these legal agreements, and some have referred to them as “legal fictions” that need to be created because of their activities.