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Thu, Mar 12 / 7 pm
Directed by Harold Crooks
2014, Canada, 92 min
English & French w/English subtitles
Director Harold Crooks (Surviving Progress) blows the lid off the dirty world of corporate malfeasance with this incendiary doc about the dark history and dire present-day reality of big-business tax avoidance, which has seen multinationals depriving governments of trillions of dollars in tax revenues by harboring profits in offshore havens. Tax havens, originally created by London bankers in the 50s, put over half the world’s stock of money beyond reach of public treasuries. Nation states are being reshaped by this off-shoring of the world’s wealth. Crusading journalists, tax justice campaigners and former finance and technology industry insiders speak frankly about the accelerating trends that are carrying the Western world to an unsustainable future.
Generously sponsored by IATSE 856 and Radio Canada Manitoba and presented with Tiff Canada’s Top Ten
