Is the Ontario Public Trustee driving money out of the province?
October 23, 1995; Canadian FundRaiser var addthis_pub=”charityvillage”; var addthis_options = ’email, facebook, twitter, delicious, digg, more’; Susan Himmel, the Ontario Public Guardian and Trustee, told the delegates at the 1995 CAGP Annual Conference that she sees no conflict in the Public Guardian’s role arbitrating between the goals of private philanthropy and of society at large. Philanthropy and charity, she pointed out, are often interchangeable, but legally are quite different. The courts have developed an elaborate and extensive case law around the term charity. Philanthropy, on the other hand, is a matter of subjective motive, which, she says, is irrelevant to the courts. One important element of a “charitable purpose,” she reminded the delegates, is that it “must be beneficial to the public.” Philanthropic, but non-charitable giving Appeals on behalf of individuals (such as burn victims, for example) are not charity, said Himmel, simply because they are for an individual, r
