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Albina Guarnieri calls charity compensation "a free-for-all" and "salary theft"
MP Albina Guarnieri has gone on record on her website, and most recently on CBC and on Humber College Radio, stating that there is “a free for all” and “salay theft” in the charitable sector. Her private members bill, C-470, gives the Minister of Revenue the power to de-register a charity if it pays an employee more than $250,000 in a single year. Calling the charitable sector an "ethics free zone", she is manufacturing a climate of distrust and suspicion between charities and their donors.
Do donors really need a over-the-top measures like Bill C-470 to "protect" them from the causes they choose to support? Does compensation actually determine the effectiveness of a charity?
Here are six reasons to Say No to Bill C-470.
- This bill will inhibit the creativity, research and leadership that is required by not-for-profits to be successful in researching major illnesses, providing remarkable healthcare and overcoming social problems.
- This bill does not contemplate all the complexities of the sector and the oversimplification does a disservice, by implying wrongdoing.
- The donor, in the end, should decide who and what to support.
- It takes decision making power away from the community and centralizes it with the Federal Government.
- It impedes the ability of volunteer boards to succeed.
- 75 leaders in the sector signed a letter to the House Leaders explaining the unintended outcomes of this legislation.
Respond to Guarnieri's assault on the thousands of people who devote their life to charitable work. Join the effort to stop Bill C470.
Click here to be a part of the "How Did Your MP Vote?" Campaign.
You don't have to take our word for it. Listen to CBC Ontario Today November 9, 2010 - podcast available
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