Jawed Anwar
Lee Harding, in an article published in the Niagara Independent newspaper, highlights a critical but overlooked issue: “Canada’s sleeper election issue: the loss of charitable status for religious organizations.”
All faith communities should pay attention. Eleven prominent Imams have issued an appeal urging Muslims to vote — and it is no secret that their appeal is effectively in favor of the Liberal Party. Dr. Mohammad Iqbal Al-Nadvi himself is actively campaigning for a Liberal candidate.
These Imams released a video titled “Your Vote – Our Future.”
Yes, your vote may brighten the future of the Imams aligned with the Liberals — but sadly, it could devastate the religious future of the Muslim community.
The Liberal Party has been anti-religion from the very beginning.

Muslim and Islamic leaders, including many Imams, never stood up or spoke out against the evil — the fahish bills, fahish laws, fahish culture, and the fahish public education system — out of fear of losing their charitable status. Now, the same fahish group they remained silent about is moving to revoke their religious charity status.
Lee Harding has exposed the Liberal Party’s plans for after this federal election.

He writes: “The potential loss of charitable status for religious charities might be the biggest sleeper issue in the federal election. The Liberal government proposed the change and only Conservatives opposed.”

He writes:

Last December, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance released Report 21, Pre-Budget Consultations in Advance of the 2025 Budget. The 300-page report included Recommendation 429: “No longer provide charitable status to anti-abortion organizations” and Recommendation 430: “Amend the Income Tax Act to provide a definition of a charity which would remove the privileged status of “advancement of religion” as a charitable purpose.”

The recommendations shocked religious charities, which are thought to comprise 40 per cent of Canada’s 85,600 charities. Disturbingly, the government neither consulted the affected charities, nor gave them a rationale.

Instead, the committee was persuaded by the B.C. Humanist Association, which called for both recommendations in July of 2024. The BCHA alleged that charitable status for religious worship was discriminatory, so $1.6 billion to $2.6 billion of annual tax breaks for religious institutions and their donors should stay in government coffers.

Last December, the Finance Committee at the time had six Liberal MPs, four Conservatives, one Bloc Quebecois, and one NDP. Only the Conservatives wrote a dissenting report, and later launched a petition calling on the government to reject Recommendation 430.

The loss of charitable status would have a devastating effect on the organizations involved. Their income would be taxed, and they would lose exemptions for Goods and Services Taxes (and Harmonized ones where applicable). They would also lose the ability to issue donation receipts. Municipalities would likely follow suit and apply property taxes also.”

You can read his full article:

https://niagaraindependent.ca/canadas-sleeper-election-issue-the-loss-of-charitable-status-for-religious-organizations/