Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I have spent extensive time consulting with stakeholders with respect to the charitable sector, and they have incredible frustration with the current status of the law respecting the contributions of charities to non-qualified entities such as NGOs. This situation creates both international and domestic challenges.
When they heard the budget was going to take place in the spirit of Senator Omidvar's private member's bill S-216, they were excited. However, their excitement was quickly dashed by the overly prescriptive nature, and that's what our amendment to clause 16 seeks to fix.
It takes the prescriptive nature of the BIA and turns it into a more reasonable set of circumstances that put the onus on the charities to conduct their business within their charitable scope and also to do so in accountable and transparent ways. What it doesn't do is create overly prescriptive rules that will create a legal fiction or will just stop charitable work altogether.
In short, Mr. Chair, this amendment will allow more good people to do more good work.