Presented by Terrance S. Carter during the Law Society of Upper Canada Special Lecture Series 1996 ESTATES: Planning, Administration and Litigaiton. November 28, 1996 at Toronto, Ontario.
To collectively describe charities in Canada as “big business” may be perceived by some as an oxymoron, to others it is a self-evident truth. The Canadian Centre for Philanthropy reported that in 1993 there were over 71,000 charities registered with Revenue Canada which had combined revenues of $86.5 billion with more that 1.3 million employees representing approximately 13 percent of the gross domestic product of Canada.
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