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  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  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  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  I think WE Charity is very sophisticated. I believe—and I've asked others who have greater expertise—that if you go through its regulatory filings, it ticks all the boxes. At Charity Intelligence, in our analysis, we use different data. We use audited financial statements, which

Finance committee  I'm not sure which charity they were doing the due diligence on. Was it WE Charity, or was it WE Charity Foundation? If you look for WE Charity Foundation, it doesn't have a website. It doesn't have financial statements, and it doesn't even have a T3010A. If the government was do

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

Finance committee  Can I just correct one thing about the board of directors? That was not public information, and it only came out on Twitter that the board had resigned in June, so we were not aware of that material information. It was not posted on WE Charity's website. I understand that we ge

Finance committee  Greg can answer.