Yes, charities should be audited, just like businesses are, individuals are, etc. Definitely.
Just though, makes you wonder when apparently now something like "preventing poverty" is not charitable (if something like that is not charitable, I'm not sure what is then?).
Also opens up good discussion, as charities are extremely limited to have much/if any "political involvement". Should this remain the case?
http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/chrts-gvng/...rmnts-eng.html
Also interesting when you look at the list of charities currently being audited, like someone else in this thread said, there appears that there may be a bit of a pattern (for e.g., apparently if you are an environmental org, be prepared to be audited
). Interesting that a number are due to complaints by Ethical Oil (
http://www.ethicaloil.org/about/), which if I am reading their about section correct, they should fall under the same CRA rules...