In closing, honourable senators, let me state what Senator Cowan is asking for: a study of charitable entities that receive funding from foreign sources; corporate entities that claim business deductions against Canadian taxes owing for their advocacy activities, both in Canada and abroad; and educational entities that utilize their charitable status to advocate on behalf of the interests of private entities.

To this end, at the next sitting, after we return from the break, I will give notice of a motion that the Standing Senate Committee on National Finance be authorized to examine and report on the tax consequences of various public and private advocacy activities undertaken by charitable and non-charitable entities in Canada and abroad, and that in conducting such a study, the committee take particular note of, first, charitable entities that receive funding from foreign sources; second, corporate entities that claim business deductions against Canadian taxes owing for their advocacy activities, both in Canada and abroad; and third, educ ...[+++]ational entities that utilize their charitable status to advocate on behalf of the interests of private entities.

C. whereas Article 1 of the Convention allows for other children to attend the Schools within the limits set by the Board of Governors, who, according to point II. 7 of Chapter XII of the Digest of Decisions of the Board of Governors, can award Category I status to ‘Staff of any Community organisation set up by an act of the Community Institutions and staff in the service of other organisations recognised by the Board of Governors’,

(14) It is necessary to exclude from the scope of this Directive central banks and other bodies performing similar functions as well as public bodies charged with or intervening in the management of the public debt, which concept covers the investment thereof, with the exception of bodies that are partly or wholly State-owned the role of which is commercial or linked to the acquisition of holdings.

(13) It is necessary to exclude from the scope of this Directive central banks and other bodies performing similar functions as well as public bodies charged with or intervening in the management of the public debt, which concept covers the investment thereof, with the exception of bodies that are partly or wholly State-owned, the role of which is commercial or linked to the acquisition of holdings.

No, it is not the answer I get to a motion as direct as this one, a motion that every organization was demanding, a motion that, in my mind, goes without saying. Whether an organization is economically, socially or community oriented or whether it is a public institution, it needs to know where it is heading and how much money will be available.