Introduction Charitable gaming has become both a large service industry in Canada and an important source of revenue for charitable organizations. The legal authority for charitable gaming rests in paragraph 207(1)(b) of the Criminal Code of Canada.1 Based on that exemption, an industry employing thousands of people and providing billions of dollars in revenue has developed…
COMMITTEE ON THE MODERNIZATION OF THE TRUSTEE ACT, Law Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouvera 1. Investment Strategy and the Distinction Between Capital and Income The purpose of all investment is to acquire gain. It is no different in the case of a trust. Trustees invest the trust property in order to bring about an increase…
In this issue, we offer two contributions to the continuing debate about the federal government’s role in the charity sector. In Part I of a thought-provoking article, Arthur Drache and Laird Hunter propose the implementation of a Canadian Charity Tribunal which would have authority over the registration of charitable entities. They suggest there is no…
*Editor’s Note: So that readers may have the full text and Appendices of this important contribution to the current debate surrounding the restructuring of the federal laws and regulations governing the Canadian charitable sector, this article will be published in two parts. Part I follows. Part II will appear in Volume 16, Number I. Part…
This article has been developed from the monograph “Federal Regulation of Charities: A Critical Assessment of Recent Proposals for Legislative and Regulatory Reform” (Toronto: York University, 2000). Introduction There are a number of significant concerns and difficulties with the existing regulatory framework governing charities at the federal level in Canada. There is a lack of…