Finance committee  I think it also helps if you have familiarity with financial statements.

Finance committee  Thank you, sir. Good morning. My name is Kate Bahen. As managing director of Charity Intelligence, I prepared the two most recent updates on WE Charity, which were on August 28, 2019, and July 10, 2020. Before answering your questions, I would like to speak to some of the issue

Finance committee  Out of 100, there were two—

Finance committee  We are funded by individual donors and some private foundations. Our operating budget is $300,000 a year.

Finance committee  No, people like you, me—

Finance committee  No.

Finance committee  There is no such thing as a normal donor. We are funded by elderly people, we are funded by students, we are funded by people who believe in the work we do that—

Finance committee  People want greater transparency. It's not that they actually want us to pick charities. We are completely independent and objective.

Finance committee  For private foundations where an individual, let's say Bill Gates, decides to put aside his money, he receives a tax receipt today, and the foundation is now set up...is that a tax incentive that I'm worried about? No, it is not. We've seen tax schemes run in both public foundati

Finance committee  In the work I've done over six years, I have never seen a foreign foundation influencing Canadian policy.

Finance committee  That's just my work experience.

Finance committee  I feel passionately about this. Can I just jump in? I think that having a sliding scale is really critical. If you are a small church congregation with revenues of $35,000 a year, you should not be held to the same standards of transparency and accountability as a World Vision b

Finance committee  Like with chocolate bars.

Finance committee  That's another can of fish, a completely different can of fish. That's where you have for-profit corporations using charities logo branding, and they will raise money on behalf of the charity. The deal is made between the charity and the for-profit marketing organization calendar

Finance committee  There's no disclosure because they are for-profit, privately held corporations.