The reader of that statement could be forgiven for thinking that the SPCA gets no money from any government. The SPCA has been telling a version of that deceit for decades. It has also said countless times, "We don't get a penny of government money". The BC SPCA gets millions from municipal governments for contracting to control and dispose of stray dogs.
The fact that the SPCA is still choosing to spin and mislead means that its critics are going to continue to dog its every word and every action and is not going to trust it until it is led by men and women who are not so ethically challenged.
The President and the Board of Directors must choose a new executive to show that they do not approve of their executive lying through their teeth all the time. If they do not, that is proof that they approve.