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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 8, 2010
OTTAWA – The Canadian Bar Association (CBA) has welcomed the changes to the disbursement quota requirements for charities contained in the 2010 budget released on March 3. These changes modernize the legal framework to give charitable organizations greater flexibility in meeting their goals.
In a letter to Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, CBA president Kevin Carroll, Q.C. of Barrie, Ont., says the new quota requirements will “reduce the administrative burden on charities, allowing them to devote more time and resources to charitable activities.”
The CBA’s Charities and Not for Profit Law Section, with Imagine Canada and other voluntary sector stakeholders, have advocated for these changes for many years.
The full text of the letter is available on the CBA website.
The Canadian Bar Association is dedicated to support for the rule of law, and improvement in the law and the administration of justice. Some 37,000 lawyers, law teachers, and law students from across Canada are members
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CONTACT: Hannah Bernstein, Canadian Bar Association, Tel: (613) 237-2925, ext. 146; E-mail: hannahb@cba.org.
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