moved for leave to introduce Bill C-294, an act to amend the Income Tax Act (public access to information from audits of charities and non-profit organizations).
Madam Speaker, this private member's bill calls on public access to the audits by Revenue Canada of charities and non-profit organizations which presently are not available for public disclosure.
The principle behind this is that non-profit organizations and charities are responsible to the taxpayer because they do not pay taxes. Therefore, there should be full accountability to the public. That is the intention of this bill.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed.)