Public Accounts committee  I have no comment on that.

Public Accounts committee  I am not going to comment on that. On that specific situation about those specific entities, I can't comment.

Public Accounts committee  In order to qualify as a charity, as Sharmila indicated earlier, your activities have to be focused on charitable purposes. That seems fairly clear. We have identified four categories of things that you could be engaged in, and I am going to search to make sure I get them right.

Public Accounts committee  You're largely exempt from tax, or totally exempt, but you can issue receipts to the persons or corporations that give you money, and those persons or corporations can claim either a tax credit in the case of an individual or a deduction in the case of a corporation. The major ta

Public Accounts committee  I'll let my colleagues go further into that. If one of the law enforcement entities passes along information to us—information that they have on activities of a criminal nature—we can incorporate that into our thinking. I will just let Sharmila get that precisely right.

Public Accounts committee  Okay. We will get back to you.

Public Accounts committee  I will let Sharmila give the precision on that, but, yes we don't have—I don't believe—just one penalty for every infraction. It goes back to some of the earlier conversation about when we would apply training versus an administrative letter, etc. My understanding is that the pen

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, just before Sharmila does that, what I could commit to and what might be helpful here is that we provide after the session a document that sets out for you what the penalties are in different circumstances. We don't have it at our fingertips here. I don't know if you

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, the first thing I would say is that I don't know the facts of the situation. We all—

Public Accounts committee  But we—

Public Accounts committee  I would not comment, even if we went in, but I certainly wouldn't offer a comment without having our investigation look to confirm the circumstances—

Public Accounts committee  With this kind of thing, if somebody gave us a lead and said this is what has happened—

Public Accounts committee  I think the question you're asking is whether it would trigger an audit, as opposed to whether it would trigger us to take a look.

Public Accounts committee  You're taking a step to go.... Once we take a look, does that take us all the way down? I'm just not going to comment on that. On the basic point you're raising, if we hear some things that we think have the potential to be offside, would we take—

Public Accounts committee  I'm sorry; what...?