Public Accounts committee  I would turn to my colleague.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, maybe I will separate that out a little bit, and then my colleagues may want to answer more on the question of foundations, private or public. I'm not talking about one—

Public Accounts committee  Yes, but I think it's an important part of your question. What I would say in terms of our role in looking at this kind thing is, first off, when we get information and a lead, we act on it. We don't need Parliament or anybody to come in and tell us that. If we get information t

Public Accounts committee  That's something we could take into account, for sure, but I'm saying that it doesn't take that for us to look into something.

Public Accounts committee  I would defer to the experts on that specific question, but can I just finish the one point quickly on the other one? When you look at CRA's role here, we are basically regulating the rules in the Income Tax Act. There may be a lot of things happening within a foundation or a c

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, as I think I mentioned earlier, that would depend upon the complexity of the complaint that is being raised. In a relatively simple situation, as I said, for a charity that is not involved in complex operations and the infraction being reported is simple, we can probab

Public Accounts committee  I would expect that would vary quite significantly depending on what the lead is telling us—how significant, how complex. If somebody is claiming something is happening in a small little corner of a big charity, it could take a while. If it's something fairly straightforward ab

Public Accounts committee  Maybe on that, I'll let my colleague answer, but first I would like to anonymize the question into “for any way that a board member could raise an issue with us, whoever or whatever that board might be.” I'll let Geoff or Sharmila answer it, but my sense is that it's a piece of i

Public Accounts committee  Our belief is that there's enough protection. We keep that information confidential to ourselves and don't communicate with the person who gave the lead unless something happens at the end. They'll see it on our website. On your earlier question, we can go back and look. Obviou

Public Accounts committee  I don't know if we even catch them by different category, but if we do, I'm happy to provide—

Public Accounts committee  Yes, I believe we can. We have, and we can. Mr. Chair, I just want to manage your expectations. I don't know how disaggregated our lead information is. We're going to go back and check, because we don't always keep track of every aspect of this type of lead or that type of lead,

Public Accounts committee  I think Sharmila may want to add to this, but I think our advice is twofold. First we try to provide enough information in general to people so that they know where to turn and what's acceptable and not acceptable. We try to educate, because the rules can get a bit complicated an

Public Accounts committee  Through the leads program, we encourage people to come to us if they think there is an issue somewhere. Then, as I said, we follow up on all of those. That would apply not just in charities. It cuts across all areas of compliance within the agency. Then what happens is we invest

Public Accounts committee  I'm going to ask my colleague Mr. Trueman to comment on the disbursement quota. It's definitely a policy matter, not an administrative one. In all cases, we are responsible for administering the new rules and the consequences of non-compliance.

Public Accounts committee  Sharmila, can you elaborate?