Paradise Papers, Morneau mess weighing heavily on the government

At the end of the day, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau needs to stop this Conservative storyline in its tracks. And he may have to sacrifice a few friends along the way.

The timing of the global investigative journalistic exposé, on the heels of Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s painful tax troubles and personal financial revelations, made a bad story worse. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SHEILA COPPS

November 13, 2017

OTTAWA—The Paradise Papers may just mean Paradise Lost in Canada and around the world. They are generating tax reverberations in capitals around the world about the extent to which the superrich legally avoid taxes while we ordinary schmucks just can’t. The names bedazzle, from queens, to prim...

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