This is my passion. We've been championing for financial transparency since the very beginning, and we still face this battle. This summer alone, we have over 100 requests for information, with the charities directorate. We're looking at some of Canada's largest charities with $5 million to $10 million in donations, which still refuse to put their audited financial statements up on their website. We have to go through that process of filing with the CRA, and it will take eight to nine months before we get that relevant information.
WE Charity was financially transparent. It had its audited financial statements on its website. We need to push for more financial transparency, but I also believe that people who have a fiduciary responsibility in writing cheques with other people's money need to do their homework, and the audited financial statements were right there on the website.
I appreciate that the vast majority of giving is marketing and branding and who's doing the ask, but at the end of the day, we are just such believers in due diligence. I hope all donors start reading the fine print.