For years, ultra-wealthy Canadians have been setting up offshore shell companies in the Isle of Man so they can dodge taxes back home. Now, MPs on the House of Commons finance committee appear ready to try to dismantle the shield of secrecy surrounding those companies.
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Members of Winnipeg’s Baha’i community have welcomed an open letter from 45 former Canadian judges, justice ministers, and lawyers decrying human rights abuses in Iran.
Members of Winnipeg’s Baha’i community have welcomed an open letter from 45 former Canadian judges, justice ministers, and lawyers decrying human rights abuses in Iran. Anytime we see a gesture like this, it makes a huge difference for us, said Payam Towfigh, a member of the local Baha’i assembly.
The letter signed by people such as Irwin Cotler, Allan Rock and Jody Wilson-Raybould (all former ministers of justice), and former Supreme Court of Canada justices Ian Binnie, Frank Iacobucci and Louis LeBel was sent earlier this month to Iranian chief justice Ebrahim Raisi.
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