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    October 30, 2018
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    COMMONS
    CORRUPTION #3 – The Trouble With Paradise: How Canadians Built The Offshore World
    The Panama Papers revealed to the world just how deeply enmeshed tax havens are in the global economy. And for 100 years, Canadian banks, businessmen and politicians have worked to build that offshore system, alongside crooks, fraudsters and corrupt officials.
    Arshy Mann
    Host & Producer
    TK Matunda
    Producer, COMMONS

    To learn more:

    Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens by Nicholas Shaxson

    Canada: A New Tax Haven: How the Country That Shaped Caribbean Tax Havens is Becoming One Itself by Alain Deneault

    The Billionaire and the Bank (Global News 16×9)

    This episode is sponsored by Lyft, Endy and The Great Courses Plus.

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