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> And I can see the appeal of the museum direction . . .

I'm not too sure how we would qualify as a museum, and legally novel
arguments will usually be a hard sell. What I like about the Vancouver
Free-Net situation is that they are an internet based organization which
took its case to court ... and won. That makes for a very strong
precedent. Their application was based on "other charitable purposes",
not education.

The reason it was filed under "other charitable purposes" was because Free-Net was accepted on the grounds of acting as an electronic community (as well as electronic library). Specifically 2 of the 3 judges accepted that provision of access into the electronic highway was a charitable purpose. I think "advancement of education" would be a much better fit. I called up the Charities Directorate at the CRA and they agreed (although to be fair I don't how much I would rely on that).

Jit