Tall Tails was edited

The SPCA, especially its spinmistress Lorie Chortyk, has been playing fast and loose with the words audited statements for a couple of years. When asked, especially by the media, they disingenuously answer that financial statements are available to the public, leaving out the word "audited". But sometimes they actually claim that there are audited statements available (as the law requires). Then they back-pedal, but not until after the misinformation is published and public.

This was cut and pasted on April 15, 2003, the same day it was posted by head office on the SPCA's web site. "The audited financial statements are distributed at the BC SPCA's Annual General Meeting and are available to any member of the public who requests a copy."

Here's what the same site says today, again cut and pasted directly from Tall Tails: "The financial statements are distributed at the BC SPCA's Annual General Meeting and are available to any member of the public who requests a copy."