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House Hansard - 52

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
April 4, 2022 11:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 52 - Apr/4/22
Mr. Garnett Genuis (Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, CPC)
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Madam Speaker, the next petition I am tabling highlights concerns about a commitment made in the Liberal 2021 election platform. We know the Liberals do not always keep their election commitments, and hopefully in this case they will not. The petition is with respect to their wanting to politicize charitable status determinations by denying charitable status to organizations with a pro-life perspective. This could apply to hospitals, houses of worship, schools, homeless shelters and other charitable organizations that do great work serving our communities. This proposal in the Liberal platform amounts to the application of a values test to charitable status, similar to what we saw with the values test that was applied to the Canada summer jobs program. It would politicize charitable status determinations and put the great work that many charities do at risk. The petitioners are calling on the House of Commons to protect and preserve the application of charitable status rules on a politically and ideologically neutral basis, without discrimination on the basis of those views and without the imposition of another values test, as well as to affirm the right of Canadians to freedom of expression.
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