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CRA’s requirement that charities spend no more than 10% of their resources on political activity has been found by Justice Edward Morgan<\/a>, of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, to be unconstitutional. Justice Morgan was emphatic. He did not allow the government any time to change the rule to be Charter <\/em>compliant. In his opinion, the rule was arbitrary and infringed freedom of expression protected in section 2(b) of the Charter;<\/em> it was an unjustifiable breach and therefore is of no effect.<\/p>\n

This is welcome news for charities. The federal government, over the last number of years, has spent some $13.4 million in its political audit program, according to news reports<\/a>. Charities have found this program an extra (and an unnecessary) burden to abide by. CRA’s “10% rule” policy limits a charity’s engagement in non-partisan “political activities” to only 10% of its resources. Failure to keep in line with this rule will mean the loss of registered charitable status.<\/p>\n

Political activities as noted by Justice Morgan (at para. 38) are “where the organization issues a call to political action, or publicly advocates for changing or maintaining any law, policy, or decision at any level of government in Canada or a foreign country, or ‘states in its internal or external materials that its goal is to convince an elected representative or public official to change, oppose, or support any law, policy, or decision at any level of government.'”<\/p>\n

The case involved Canada Without Poverty<\/a>, a non-partisan, not-for-profit, charitable organization dedicated to ending poverty in Canada. It was created in 1971 and since then has ardently championed the rights of individuals experiencing poverty and marginalization through research, awareness-building campaigns, public policy development, and educational programming.  Facing the loss of its charitable status as a result of a CRA political audit, the charity was forced to seek relief from the courts.<\/p>\n

“This is an incredible victory \u2013 not only for CWP, but for Canadian democracy,” said CWP\u2019s Executive Director, Leilani Farha<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I couldn’t agree more.<\/p>\n

Justice Morgan noted (at para. 42) that CWP does “not claim a right to engage in political objectives or purposes; rather, it seeks to pursue its existing charitable purpose through means which are self-evidently expressive and protected by s. 2(b) of the Charter. In effect, the language of s. 149.1(6.2), [of the Income Tax Act] and CRA’s 10% rule in application of that statutory provision, makes [CWP’s] charitable purpose untenable.”<\/p>\n

The decision affirmed that CWP has a right to “effective freedom of expression \u2013 i.e., the ability to engage in unimpaired public policy advocacy toward its charitable purpose.” (Para. 47)<\/p>\n

There is no word, yet, if the federal government is going to appeal the decision. However, given the fact that it has publicly criticized the previous government’s emphasis on charity political audits \u2013 and given its own Minister of National Revenue’s Consultation Report<\/a> in 2017 that recommended the deletion of any reference in the Income Tax Act to non-partisan political activities for charities \u2013 it may prove very difficult for the government to appeal the decision.<\/p>\n

In my view, there is no need for the 10% rule. As long as a charity is carrying out its approved charitable purpose while engaged in political activity, it makes no sense to arbitrarily limit such efforts to 10 % of its resources.  There are many times when charities must engage in public advocacy through no fault of their own.<\/p>\n

Take, for example, the Canada Summer Jobs issue. We were forced into action because of an ill-conceived public policy decision of the government, and as a result, we had to (and are continuing to) let our views be known to political leaders. We’ve written letters and participated in meetings with MPs. In other words, we are engaged in “political activity.” It is not partisan. We are focused on the issue, which is of profound significance to many of our members across the country. Yet in the back of our minds we have had to be conscious of this 10% rule. The facts on the ground may mean that we could get close to infringing it \u2013 but why have the rule if what we are doing is vital to carrying out our charitable purpose? It not only interferes with our right of expression, but also, in the CSJ issue, with our religious freedom. The government has sought to control the messaging of charities and it is simply wrong.<\/p>\n

I, for one, applaud Canada Without Poverty for taking the stand it did in challenging this needless and unconstitutional rule. Good riddance, and may the government never appeal!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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As you recall, on September 27, 2016 the MNR launched a\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":35943,"url":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/legal\/2022\/11\/15\/charitable-status-open-letter-to-the-minister-of-finance\/","url_meta":{"origin":27749,"position":3},"title":"Charitable Status: Open Letter to the Minister of Finance","author":"Deina Warren","date":"November 15, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"CCCC continues to actively monitor federal challenges to charitable status arising from the December 2021 Mandate Letters. These letters instruct Federal Cabinet Ministers to \u201cmake anti-abortion organizations that provide dishonest counselling to pregnant women about their rights and options ineligible for charitable status.\u201d CCCC agrees that dishonesty is wrong but\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Charity law and policy"","block_context":{"text":"Charity law and policy","link":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/category\/charity-law-and-policy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221114-Charitable-Status-Challenges.png?fit=600%2C600&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221114-Charitable-Status-Challenges.png?fit=600%2C600&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221114-Charitable-Status-Challenges.png?fit=600%2C600&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":32448,"url":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/intersection\/2021\/09\/08\/charitable-status-at-issue-in-the-2021-federal-election\/","url_meta":{"origin":27749,"position":4},"title":"Charitable Status at Issue In The 2021 Federal Election","author":"cccc","date":"September 8, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Barry W. Bussey In an already divisive election campaign, what is so problematic about a proposal to remove charitable status from pro-life groups? Where did this platform come from, and how should we respond? When the election was called this summer, few imagined that the registered charitable status of pro-life\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 7 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 7 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/intersection\/2021\/09\/08\/charitable-status-at-issue-in-the-2021-federal-election\/#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_1783-scaled.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_1783-scaled.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_1783-scaled.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_1783-scaled.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_1783-scaled.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_1783-scaled.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":16728,"url":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/legal\/2014\/02\/27\/charities-program-update-from-cra\/","url_meta":{"origin":27749,"position":5},"title":"Charities Program Update from CRA","author":"Deina Warren","date":"February 27, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Last year, CRA\u2019s Charities Directorate launched the Charities Program Update, a new communication to highlight some of the Directorate\u2019s resources, analysis and statistical data. It appears that the Charities Program Update is being produced on an annual basis, and the 2014 version has just been released. 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