The latest revelations from the leak of the Paradise Papers raise troubling questions, not only about government’s failure to collect what’s owed, but also about the power of money to subvert our democracy. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was asked Tuesday about top Liberal fundraiser Stephen Bronfman, whose name surfaced in the so-called Paradise Papers. A public servant’s providing advice inconsistent with the government’s public stance is highly problematic. More disturbing, however, than the case of this single civil servant is the larger narrative that these latest revelations and the Paradise Papers as a whole feed. The Paradise Papers are doing nothing to soothe those who worry about the unseemly intertwining of money and power in politics or about the extent to which the economy is rigged by the few against the many.

Source: thestar November 08, 2017 22:39 UTC