Well, first off, no it's not. That difference is $385,745. That's not $500,000.
It's also a big enough deal to know what $825,000 of other expenditures entails. Which would have been a reasonable explanation for John Bean to provide.
"As you can see our total expenditure was 1.2M, 385 is accounted for in the CRA document that is easily enough to read. The other 825,000 went towards 30,000 to health fair, 100,000 to the Fernie rink, 200,000 here, another 300,000 there and 200,000 here".
Instead he basically accused the Charity Watchdog of making up numbers, while he pulled a number more or less out of thin air that is not at all listed on the CRA document. The numbers used by the watchdog would have been taken from the Foundations own financial statements and either he pretended not to know where they got it from or was actually oblivious, which does seem to be pretty incompetent. The least a COO should have in front of him when going into an interview regarding numbers for the Foundations is an understanding of where the numbers were from.
He had the perfect opportunity to be transparent, provide us with what line 4920 was made up of in the CRA. Instead he went on the defense, and that should be concerning.
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