Canada’s charitable sector needs a federal home

The Advisory Committee on the Charitable Sector, established in 2019 to encourage meaningful dialogue with government, remains a periodic consultative body that has not met since fall 2024. And while consultation matters, it is not enough.

In 2019, a special Senate committee recommended the national revenue minister, currently François-Philippe Champagne, create a dedicated federal secretariat for the charitable sector. It's time is overdue, writes Neil McEachern.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY NEIL MCEACHERN

April 20, 2026

The charitable sector is a major economic and social force in Canada with charities and nonprofits contributing $225-billion in economic activity annually, accounting for 8.2 per cent of GDP. We employ 2.7 million people, more than the mining, oil and gas sector, or agricult...

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