From: Canuck57@nospam.com   
      
   Hey Alan, I use to like your posts but you are thick like cow pies.   
      
   How come you haven't learned to post your posts in all news groups at   
   once forcing responses to only be in one group?  Why do you post   
   individual to each group and not in all groups at once?   
      
   Seems kind of retarded than for years now you ignore this.   
      
   But hey, its typical CRA/govmint mentality I guess you haven't lost   
   since working for them.  As did you not work for them once?   
      
      
   On 31/07/2014 1:16 AM, Alan Baggett wrote:   
   > Canada Revenue Agency tells Oxfam to stop trying to prevent poverty : CRA   
   SOTW   
   >   
   > THE CANADIAN PRESS   
   >   
   > OTTAWA -- The Canada Revenue Agency has told a charity that it can no longer   
   try to prevent poverty around the world, it can only alleviate poverty --   
   because preventing poverty might benefit people who are not already poor.   
   >   
   > The bizarre bureaucratic brawl over a mission statement is yet more evidence   
   of deteriorating relations between the Harper government and some parts of   
   Canada's charitable sector.   
   >   
   > The scuffle began when Oxfam Canada filed papers with Industry Canada to   
   renew its non-profit status, as required by Oct. 17 this year under a law   
   passed in 2011.   
   >   
   > Ottawa-based Oxfam initially submitted wording that its purpose as a charity   
   is "to prevent and relieve poverty, vulnerability and suffering by improving   
   the conditions of individuals whose lives, livelihood, security or well-being   
   are at risk."   
   >   
   > The international development group, founded in 1963, spends about $32   
   million each year on humanitarian relief and aid in Africa, Asia, and Central   
   and South America, with a special emphasis on women's rights.   
   >   
   > But the submission to Industry Canada also needed the approval of the   
   charities directorate of the Canada Revenue Agency.   
   >   
   > Agency officials informed Oxfam that "preventing poverty" was not an   
   acceptable goal.   
   >   
   > "Relieving poverty is charitable, but preventing it is not," the group was   
   warned. "Preventing poverty could mean providing for a class of beneficiaries   
   that are not poor."   
   >   
   > Oxfam Canada's executive director called the exchange an "absurd   
   conversation."   
   >   
   > "Their interpretation was that preventing poverty may or may not involve   
   poor people," Robert Fox said in an interview with The Canadian Press.   
   >   
   > "A group of millionaires could get together to prevent their poverty, and   
   that would not be deemed a charitable purpose."   
   >   
   > The agency prevailed, and the official declaration to Industry Canada about   
   the purposes of the non-profit dropped any reference to preventing poverty.   
   >   
   > "Our mission statement still indicates we're committed to ending poverty,   
   but our charitable (purposes) do not use the word 'end' or 'prevent' -- they   
   use the word 'alleviate."'   
   >   
   > Philippe Brideau, spokesman for the Canada Revenue Agency, declined to   
   provide information on the disagreement, saying "we do not comment on specific   
   cases."   
   >   
   > Oxfam Canada was singled out for criticism earlier this year by Employment   
   Minister Jason Kenney over the group's opposition to Israeli settlements in   
   the West Bank.   
   >   
   > And in July last year, Oxfam Canada signed a joint letter to Prime Minister   
   Stephen Harper, taking issue with reports that government officials had been   
   asked to compile "friend and enemy stakeholder" lists to brief new ministers   
   after the summer    
   cabinet shuffle.   
   >   
   > Fox said that despite the new "purpose" statement, the group's programs and   
   activities have not changed.   
   >   
   > The contretemps is yet more evidence of frosty relations between the Harper   
   government and some charities, several dozen of which have been targeted since   
   2012 for audits of their "political activities."   
   >   
   > The Canada Revenue Agency, armed with $13 million in special funding, is   
   currently auditing some 52 groups, many of whom have criticized the Harper   
   government's programs and policies, especially on the environment.   
   >   
   > The list includes Amnesty International Canada, the David Suzuki Foundation,   
   Canada Without Poverty, and the United Church of Canada's Kairos charity.   
   >   
   > Pen Canada, a Toronto charity that advocates for freedom of speech, joined   
   the ranks of the audited just this week. The group has raised alarms about the   
   government's muzzling of scientists on the public payroll.   
   >   
   > Charities have said the CRA campaign is draining them of cash and resources,   
   creating a so-called "advocacy chill" as they self-censor to avoid aggravating   
   auditors or attracting fresh audits. Auditors have the power to strip a   
   charity of its    
   registration, and therefore its ability to issue income-tax receipts,   
   potentially drying up donations.   
   >   
   > Oxfam Canada is not undergoing a political-activities audit, said Fox.   
   >   
   > Chantal Havard, spokeswoman for the Canadian Council for International   
   Co-operation, a coalition of international-aid charities that includes Oxfam,   
   said she was not aware of any other members in mission-statement disputes with   
   the CRA.   
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