Governmental Policies in Canada

Summary:

Links to discussions of the relations between nonprofits, the national government and provincial governments in Canada.

Information about federal regulation and support for charity work in Canada is available at the website of the Charities Directorate - Direction des organismes de bienfaisance of Canada in the Revenue Agency - Agence du revenu du Canada:
-- http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tax/charities/

Québec
The government has a policy framing its relations with the voluntary
sector. It can be consulted at:
http://www.mess.gouv.qc.ca/saca/action-communautaire/politique-reconnaissance-soutien.asp

(Thanks to Pierre-André Tremblay Ph.D., professeur, Département des sciences humaines, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, for providing this link in ISTR-L (a service of the International Society for Third-sector Research &mdash http://www.istr.org).)

General resources for nonprofits in Canada are listed elsewhere in the Nonprofit FAQ: http://www.idealist.org/if/i/en/faq/167-261/85-56. Discussions of the policy environment for these kinds of activities in several countries are included in the Nonprofit FAQ under "National Policies Worldwide" (http://www.idealist.org/if/i/en/faqcat/297-268).