\u0027If it is enacted, (it) would affect far more than just crisis pregnancy centres, I think it would impact churches and camps and ministries\u0027
“What is an anti-abortion group? Is it a place of worship that opposes abortion? Is it a group that focuses most of its resources on pregnancy-related issues?” wrote lawyer Mark Blumberg on his law office website.Article content
“I don’t see how they could come along and say, ‘If you hold this particular opinion you no longer qualify as a charity’ without, again, re-opening this debate that Parliament for 80 years has stayed away from,” Aptowitzer said. “How in the world do they expect to do this?” “Whenever charitable status is revoked, donations go down,” said Cooke in an interview. “If they don’t have tax-exempt status they’re going to have to start paying property tax, and that property tax will just kill them, it’s just going to shut them down.
Crisis pregnancy centres are found all around Canada — one adoption website lists more than 180 different crisis pregnancy centres. They’re often religious — Pregnancy Care Canada, a network of such centres, describes itself as “Christ-centred” — and say their purpose is to provide information about adoption, parenting and abortion, in addition to goods such as diapers or infant formula.
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