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Canada’s sleeper election issue: the loss of charitable status for religious organizations


The potential loss of charitable status for religious charities might be the biggest sleeper issue in the federal election. The Liberal government proposed the change and only Conservatives opposed.

Last December, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance released Report 21, Pre-Budget Consultations in Advance of the 2025 Budget. The 300-page report included Recommendation 429: “No longer provide charitable status to anti-abortion organizations” and Recommendation 430: “Amend the Income Tax Act to provide a definition of a charity which would remove the privileged status of “advancement of religion” as a charitable purpose.”

The recommendations shocked religious charities, which are thought to comprise 40 per cent of Canada’s 85,600 charities. Disturbingly, the government neither consulted the affected charities, nor gave them a rational ...

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