Originally Posted by
Lyle Craver
It needs to be specifically mentioned that one of the key points that got the CFC's charitable status lifted was allowing contributions resulting in tax receipts for contributions designated to junior champions AFTER the qualifying events when the advancing representative was known. In Canada Revenue Agency's world that's OK if the donor and recipient were "not at arms' length" but not OK when the two were related. Obviously a designated donation BEFORE the qualifying tournament would have been OK.
I say again that while that was not the ONLY specified reason it was clear that that's the point on which we were most crucified by CRA.
As such any financial aid proposal made by an advisory committee should reasonably expect very careful scrutiny as all of us would like to regain charitable status and while in my opinion it's a very low chance now it would quickly go to "snowflake's chance in hell" if there were anything of this nature going forward.