#209 The Man Behind The Paradise Papers

November 26, 2017

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“I do think that people should be marching in the streets over this,” says ICIJ director Gerard Ryle.

Jesse Brown

Host & Publisher

Kevin Sexton

Producer

Gerard Ryle is the director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, who are behind the Paradise Papers, the Panama Papers and other similar investigations.

Major revelations are continuing to come out of the Paradise Papers in Canada and around the world.

One prominent columnist dismissed the whole thing as “another cheap shot at the wealthy,” while other people are asking why this story isn’t causing riots in the streets.

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