My ATIP to the Privy Council Office (PCO):
“Regarding this letter from the PMO to the Finance Department https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/mandate-letters/2021/12/16/deputy-prime-minister-and-minister-finance-mandate-letter which says: "Introduce amendments to the Income Tax Act to make anti-abortion organizations that provide dishonest counselling to pregnant women about their rights and options ineligible for charitable status..." I am requesting all the supporting documentation to and from the The Privy Council Office and to and from any other government department including the PMO, that supports this need to make anti-abortion charities lose their charitable status. This would also include all documented materials from external persons or organizations and government departments that provided evidence of this "dishonest counselling" to the PCO. I would also like to see the criteria that will be used to dis-qualify the affected organizations for losing their charitable status. In other words, how will Revenue Canada decide that these organizations are engaging in "dishonest counselling"?” My request would be from Jan 1, 2020 to the present day”.
It took almost eight months to receive a miniscule 10 pages. From what little I did receive, and based on how long it took to receive it, I must conclude that they looked really hard to find something, anything at all, that would support their persecution of pro-life organizations. But they couldn't find a thing:
- I received no supporting documentation that supports the 'need' to make charities lose their charitable status.
- I received no supporting documentation from external persons or organizations of evidence of any 'dishonest counseling'.
- I did not receive the 'criteria' that would be used to disqualify these organizations from losing their charitable status.
What I did receive, was an admission that there is no legal right to abortion in Canada:
"Although abortion was decriminalized in 1988 as a result of R. v. Morgentaler, there is no legal right to abortion in Canada.
The mandate to remove the charitable status from pro-life groups by this Liberal government is based purely on ideological reasons, not on any evidence, and not on any facts.
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