The Wikimedia Foundation provides incredible value to the world through their mission to "empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally". Their best-known product of course is Wikipedia, the free user-built encyclopedia in every major human language, that is now widely used by most people as a main reference source.

This organization is doing incredible work, and in every way is deserving of charitable status. But they are headquartered in the United States, and so Canadians who wish to donate to them do not receive any tax recognition for this donation. 

This peititon is for the Government of Canada to change this: to make donations to the Wikimedia Foundation tax-deductible for individuals. This is done through the process of giving a "Gift from Her Majesty in Right of Canada" from the Canadian federal government to the Wikimedia Foundation, which then adds it to a list of qualified donees and allows them to issue tax receipts.

We call on the Government of Canada, specifically Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Bill Morneau, to make this change and allow Canadians to have our donations to this world-changing institution be financially recognized as a valid charitable contribution.