From the Board of Elders, 

We were recently advised that at the close of 2024, the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada issued an alert regarding a pre-budget report that had been submitted to the Federal Finance Committee.  The report contained 462 recommendations and two of them, if adopted, would have a far-reaching and devastating impact on religious charities, the people they serve, and Canadian society.  

Recommendation 429

No longer provide charitable status to anti-abortion organizations.

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.

Why this matters

Committee recommendations can function as a trial balloon. If a recommendation seems widely supported, or at least not opposed, it may encourage the government to move ahead with it.

For more information and suggestions on how you might voice your concern, go to https://www.evangelicalfellowship.ca/Communications/Articles/December-2024-(1)/Finance-Committee-s-troubling-recommendations-on-c 

 

The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) intervenes before government and the courts on issues of concern to Evangelicals, seeking to uphold religious freedom, stable family structures, sanctity of human life, and the care and protection of the vulnerable.