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MPs urged to demand the names of Canadians behind offshore tax shelters cbc.ca 2 hrs ago Harvey Cashore © Raphael Satter/Associated Press Beachgoers walk along a tidal causeway in the town of Peel on the Isle of Man on Monday, March 26, 2012. Five years ago, tax law expert André Lareau was blocked from giving testimony before the House of Commons finance committee by a last-minute gag order preventing witnesses from talking about a prominent accounting firm's tax avoidance scheme. Now, he has a message for the members of Parliament who are today rebooting their�...

Article content Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem was starting down the long path to an economics PhD when interest rates breached 20 per cent in the early 1980s. Back then, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland was a teenager helping out on the family farm in Alberta. Both of Canada’s key economic policy-makers would have been old enough to understand the gravity of the situation, but maybe not yet at an age that would have allowed them to feel what it was like during those years, as they were unburdened by adult concerns such as holding down a job or managing a payroll.

Opposition parties support finance committee probe Before they halted their Isle of Man probe in 2016, members of Parliament on the finance committee learned the KPMG scheme was not only marketed to ultra-rich Canadians as a way to dodge taxes, but also as a way to keep money from potential creditors. An internal KPMG document, obtained by the finance committee, showed that the accounting firm promoted their scheme as a way for their wealthy clients to "protect" their assets offshore. There was "nothing [a] creditor/ex-spouse etc. can claim," KPMG said it would charge its clients a minim...

Save to Read Later OTTAWA - An emergency parliamentary debate that was supposed to be a forum for cross-party collaboration on better ways to combat the COVID-19 pandemic devolved Wednesday into another round of partisan finger-pointing. Green Party MP Elizabeth May arrives on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020. An emergency parliamentary debate that was supposed to be a forum for cross-party collaboration on better ways to combat the COVID-19 pandemic has devolved into another round of partisan finger-pointing. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick OTTAWA - An emergency par...

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