Finance committee  We need to remember that the existing provisions in the Income Tax Act also include language about direct and indirect partisan support. The concept itself isn't new, and it's been in the guidance before. That being said, there has been an increased emphasis on making sure char

Finance committee  I was just going to say that from our perspective there is significant progress in the bill as it stands right now, and in its proposals, but if members wanted to take up that issue of the indirect support, that would be welcomed. As things currently stand, we'll need to be invol

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, for giving us the opportunity to be here today. As the national umbrella for the charitable and non-profit sector, our comments are limited to those portions of Bill C-86 that propose changes to how charities are regulated th

Industry committee  The exemption in the regulations right now refers to messages sent by or on behalf of charities, and so our hope would be that in those cases where people are outsourcing some of that messaging, it would be the same sort of thing.

Industry committee  Again, we supported the suspension, especially knowing that the review by the committee was coming up. We thought that made a lot of sense. But when we're dealing with organizations large and small, for which the board members are members of the community who are volunteers doing

Industry committee  They're spending money. They're putting human resources into it.

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  Yes, we believe it was not the intent for this to be happening. We know that donors are always concerned that charities make the most efficient use of the dollars they—

Industry committee  Yes, as I said, it's in our brief that if we can get a clear exemption from the consent requirements.... Charities are following the other requirements of CASL, the unsubscribe and those things, and that's something—

Industry committee  Yes, well, it's the requirement for opt-in to be able to send out those messages.

Industry committee  That's where some of the grey area is. The FAQs that the CRTC has put out say that if you're sending a message to sell tickets, you may or may not....

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  Yes. It would be for us, and again it's very similar to what Australia has done in their law. They have the opt-in provisions, but they exempt charities from the opt-in provisions.

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  With regard to that part of the question, I don't know whether such evidence exists or where it would be. The perspective we bring is that donors are very interested—and governments have been very interested—in charities seeking to reduce their costs of doing business wherever po