Great news from the North

From the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation:

7 environmental charities face Canada Revenue Agency audits
The Canada Revenue Agency is currently conducting extensive audits on some of Canada's most prominent environmental groups to determine if they comply with guidelines that restrict political advocacy, CBC News has learned.

If the CRA rules that the groups exceeded those limits, their charitable status could be revoked, which would effectively shut them down.

Very good -- if the organization wants to be tax exempt, they need to toe the line and stay out of politics. This is the same for us here in the States. There is a big group in Bellingham that is clearly violating this and I wonder when the boom will be lowered on them. The CBC lists the charities under investigation:

The list of groups CBC has now confirmed are undergoing audits reads like a who�s who in the environmental charity world. They include:

• The David Suzuki Foundation
• Tides Canada
• West Coast Environmental Law
• The Pembina Foundation
• Environmental Defence
• Equiterre
• Ecology Action Centre

�This is a war against the sector,� says John Bennett, of Sierra Club Canada. His group is not yet being audited, but he said he is prepared.

I am not familiar with most of these groups but the first two are well known to me and thoroughly deserve any censure they receive. Suzuki is a hypocrite and Tides is a branch of their US organization and for all that the progressives fulminate about those horrid Koch Brothers, the Tides Foundation donates 50 times more money to 'green' groups. Anti coal? Tides. Anti Keystone Pipeline? Tides. And the list goes on...