Cages are no life for animals.
In recently published online information on charities, Charity Intelligence Canada, a non-profit society
that researches Canadian charities for donors to be informed and give intelligently reported that the BC SPCA's f2023
audited financial statements showed that the prior year surplus of $86+ million of public donations
for the care of animals had climbed to over $100+ million which was sitting in the BC SPCA's funding reserves.
In the same year (f2023) the BC government handed the BC SPCA a payment for $12 million from the public purse
while British Columbians were struggling financially to meet basic needs
and hopelessly in the rental housing market.
The fact is that the BC SPCA has more money than any other animal organization in this province to
help animals yet kills more animals than any other charitable organization in BC.
The BC SPCA also spends hundreds of thousands of dollars every year to solicit the public for more donations for the care of animals
by hiring external fundraisers. In f2023 the BC SPCA paid external fundraisers $602,000.00 ($602K) to increase its public donation profits.
$100 million+ could go a long way to helping animals
At a time where the BC SPCA has raided many of British Columbia's reputable rescues and sanctuaries placing them
deep in debt to the BC SPCA, the organization has also destroyed more seized and surrendered animals than any other charitable animal
organization in the Province. Individuals and famillies struggling to pay for animal care costs loose their pets
in animal custody seizures which brings even more trauma and despair to the animals and their beloveds. A long and
expensive legal battle then can reduce the animal guardian's financial resources to extreme poverty in what is overwhelmingly
a useless and worthless pursuit statistically to get their animals returned.
In the history of the BC courts and tribunal less than a dozen animal claims resulted in the seized animals being returned to their guardians.
The severe lack of pet-friendly housing in British Columbia has resulted in astronomically high animal surrenders to
places that are already over-crowded or simply do not have the space for more animals. The surplus animals
are often euthanized before their natural end of life by the BC SPCA since there is no place for them.
The BC SPCA funding reserves of over $100 million comprised of donations from the public for the care
of animals is growing while thousands of surrendered animals are unnecessarily perishing.
The BC SPCA could use a sizeable portion of their goliath funding reserves to help animals and
their guardians in a time of extreme crisis. Instead, we saw their funding reserves grow from
$86+ million in f2022 to over $100+ million in f2023.
In the same year (2023) the BC SPCA unabashedly and without shame accepted a payment for $12 million taken from
the BC public purse.
Embezzlement of public donations for the care of animals?
Corporations have to be accountable for any actions to solicit funds from the public. The funds must be used for the purpose
that they are advertised for. If a corporation solicited over $100 million claiming that the donations were needed to care
for animals and instead placed the funds in reserves, the corporation may be accused of fraud and embezzlement of the
public's donations.
Charities are not held accountable in the same way particularly when a charity like the BC SPCA has
its own bylaws that enables the organization to store and invest its donation funds rather than use them for the
purpose that the funds were solicited for:
11.3 Investment
Funds not immediately required for the operations of the Society may be invested in in any form
of property or security in which a prudent investor might invest, and in accordance with policies
established regarding investments. The standard of care required of the Directors is that they will
exercise the care, skill, diligence and judgment that a prudent investor would exercise in making
investments in light of the purposes and distribution requirements of the Society. The Board may
establish further policies related to the investment of the Society’s funds and property, provided
that such policies are not contrary to the Act or these Bylaws.
Bylaws of the BC SPCA
An animal organization that has become the richest in British Columbia and very likely in Canada has not
contributed the public's donations solicited for the care of animals towards helping animals in need when those funds have been sitting in
reserves growing by the millions every year. The BC SPCA's program costs and revenues pale in comparison to the public donations for the care of animals
that ended up in its funding reserves.
The BC SPGA has repeatedly provided the solution to the great number of animal surrenders in
our province which is to make residential tenancies pet-friendly and
the BC government continues to turn a blind eye and deaf ear to the
plight of animal guardians who have to surrender wanted animals because there is
no other choice.
Throwing more millions to an organization to build more shelters does not provide those animals with a home
when there is a massive shortage in BC of pet-friendly homes for them to live in. The solution is to Change
the Laws to help BC's animal guardians and their animals which begins with having a roof over their heads
and pet-friendly laws for BC's residential tenancies can accomplish that.
In recently published online information on charities, Charity Intelligence Canada, a non-profit society that researches Canadian charities for donors to be informed and give intelligently reported that the BC SPCA's f2023 audited financial statements showed that the prior year surplus of $86+ million of public donations for the care of animals had climbed to over $100+ million which was sitting in the BC SPCA's funding reserves.
In the same year (f2023) the BC government handed the BC SPCA a payment for $12 million from the public purse while British Columbians were struggling financially to meet basic needs and hopelessly in the rental housing market.
The fact is that the BC SPCA has more money than any other animal organization in this province to help animals yet kills more animals than any other charitable organization in BC.
The BC SPCA also spends hundreds of thousands of dollars every year to solicit the public for more donations for the care of animals by hiring external fundraisers. In f2023 the BC SPCA paid external fundraisers $602,000.00 ($602K) to increase its public donation profits.
$100 million+ could go a long way to helping animals
At a time where the BC SPCA has raided many of British Columbia's reputable rescues and sanctuaries placing them deep in debt to the BC SPCA, the organization has also destroyed more seized and surrendered animals than any other charitable animal organization in the Province. Individuals and famillies struggling to pay for animal care costs loose their pets in animal custody seizures which brings even more trauma and despair to the animals and their beloveds. A long and expensive legal battle then can reduce the animal guardian's financial resources to extreme poverty in what is overwhelmingly a useless and worthless pursuit statistically to get their animals returned.
In the history of the BC courts and tribunal less than a dozen animal claims resulted in the seized animals being returned to their guardians.
The severe lack of pet-friendly housing in British Columbia has resulted in astronomically high animal surrenders to places that are already over-crowded or simply do not have the space for more animals. The surplus animals are often euthanized before their natural end of life by the BC SPCA since there is no place for them.
The BC SPCA funding reserves of over $100 million comprised of donations from the public for the care of animals is growing while thousands of surrendered animals are unnecessarily perishing.
The BC SPCA could use a sizeable portion of their goliath funding reserves to help animals and their guardians in a time of extreme crisis. Instead, we saw their funding reserves grow from $86+ million in f2022 to over $100+ million in f2023.
In the same year (2023) the BC SPCA unabashedly and without shame accepted a payment for $12 million taken from the BC public purse.
Embezzlement of public donations for the care of animals?
Corporations have to be accountable for any actions to solicit funds from the public. The funds must be used for the purpose that they are advertised for. If a corporation solicited over $100 million claiming that the donations were needed to care for animals and instead placed the funds in reserves, the corporation may be accused of fraud and embezzlement of the public's donations.
Charities are not held accountable in the same way particularly when a charity like the BC SPCA has its own bylaws that enables the organization to store and invest its donation funds rather than use them for the purpose that the funds were solicited for:
11.3 Investment
Funds not immediately required for the operations of the Society may be invested in in any form of property or security in which a prudent investor might invest, and in accordance with policies established regarding investments. The standard of care required of the Directors is that they will exercise the care, skill, diligence and judgment that a prudent investor would exercise in making investments in light of the purposes and distribution requirements of the Society. The Board may establish further policies related to the investment of the Society’s funds and property, provided that such policies are not contrary to the Act or these Bylaws.
Bylaws of the BC SPCA
An animal organization that has become the richest in British Columbia and very likely in Canada has not contributed the public's donations solicited for the care of animals towards helping animals in need when those funds have been sitting in reserves growing by the millions every year. The BC SPCA's program costs and revenues pale in comparison to the public donations for the care of animals that ended up in its funding reserves.
The BC SPGA has repeatedly provided the solution to the great number of animal surrenders in our province which is to make residential tenancies pet-friendly and the BC government continues to turn a blind eye and deaf ear to the plight of animal guardians who have to surrender wanted animals because there is no other choice.
Throwing more millions to an organization to build more shelters does not provide those animals with a home when there is a massive shortage in BC of pet-friendly homes for them to live in. The solution is to Change the Laws to help BC's animal guardians and their animals which begins with having a roof over their heads and pet-friendly laws for BC's residential tenancies can accomplish that.
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