Imperial Canada Inc. sets out to ask a simple question: why is Canada home to more than 70% of the world’s mining companies?Created by the British North America Act of 1867, Canada, rather than turning away from its colonial past, actively embraced, appropriated, and perpetuated the imperial ambitions of its mother country. Two years later, it took possession of Rupert’s Landall of the land draining into Hudson Bayand the North West Territories from the Hudson’s Bay Company, 3 million square miles of resources, and set about its nation-building enterprise of extending its Dominion from sea to sea.”This Canadian imperial heritage continues to offer the extractive sector worldwide a customized trading environment that: supports speculation, enables capital flows to finance questionable projects abroad, pursues a pro-active diplomacy which successfully promotes this sector to international institutions, opens fiscal pipelines to Caribbean tax havens, provides government subsidies, and most especially, offers a politicized legal haven from any risk of litigious recourse attempted by any community seriously affected by these industries.Traditionally rooted in Canadian law, the right to reputation effectively supersedes freedom of expression and the public’s right to information. Hence, Canadian bodies corporate,” i.e. Canadian-based corporations, can sue for libel” any and all persons or legal entities that quote documents or generate analyses of their corporate practices that they do not approve of. Even foreign academics have become hesitant about presenting their work in Canada for fear of such prosecution.The authors of Imperial Canada Inc., all respected scholars in their fields, meticulously research four factors that contribute to the answer to this question: Quebec’s and Ontario’s mining codes; the history of the Toronto Stock Exchange; Canada’s involvement with Caribbean tax havens; and, finally, Canada’s official role of promoting itself to international institutions governing the world’s mining sector.

Imperial Canada Inc.: Legal Haven of Choice for the World's Mining Industries

Business & Money

DENEAULT, Alain

Sacher, William

International

Talonbooks

In Canada: A New Tax Haven, Alain Deneault traces Canada’s relationship with Commonwealth Caribbean nations back through the last half of the twentieth century, arguing that the involvement of Canadian financiers in establishing and maintaining Caribbean tax havens has predisposed Canada to become a tax haven itself a metamorphosis well under way. Canada was linked to Caribbean nations long before they became tax havens. In the 1950s, an ex-governor of Canada’s central bank attempted to establish a low taxation regime in Jamaica. In the 1960s, the transformation of the Bahamas into a tax haven characterized by impenetrable banking secrecy was shaped by a minister of finance who sat on the Royal Bank of Canada’s board of directors. A Calgary lawyer and former Conservative Party heavyweight drew up the clauses that transformed the Cayman Islands into an opaque offshore jurisdiction. For years, Canadian politicians have debated annexing tax havens such as the Turks and Caicos Islands, making them part of Canadian territory. Canada has signed a free-trade agreement with Panama and is currently seeking a wider agreement with countries in CARICOM, the Caribbean economic community. And, notably, Canada currently shares its seat at the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund with a group of Caribbean tax havens. These exercises in fostering fiscal and banking leniency have predisposed Canada to become one of the most attractive tax havens to foreign interests. Not only does Canada offer one of the lowest corporate tax rates in the world, but a number of loopholes encourage companies to relocate to Canada as if it were Barbados or Bermuda. Canada: A New Tax Haven is an attempt to analyze the situation and address its implications for Canadians.for Canadians.

Canada: A New Tax Haven

Offshore reveals how the vast network of unregulated financial centersfrom Luxemburg to the Cayman islands to the tiny Pacific haven of Nauru amount to a nether realm of drug and arms trade profits, enormous private accounts, and multinational corporate financial holdings. Delving into the scandals, the financial structure, and the history of this hidden side of globalization, sociologist Alain Deneault depicts something larger and more ominous than simple tax havens” where financial elites and corporations must reside X days out of every calendar year to protect their earnings. Instead, Offshore describes a global base of operations from which massive criminal enterprises and corrupt corporations operate freely and with impunity, menacing developing nations and advanced democracies alike.

Offshore: Tax Havens and the Rule of Global Crime

Economics

The New Press

Offshore: Paradis fiscaux et souveraineté criminelle

Business Culture

FABRIQUE

Paul Martin & Compagnies

VLB éditeur

GOUVERNANCE - LE MANAGEMENT TOTALITAIRE

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

LUX CANADA

LA MEDIOCRATIE

LA MEDIOCRATIE (POLLUX) (French Edition)

Bande de colons - Une mauvaise conscience de classe

Aussi étonnant que cela puisse paraître, le Canada favorise de mille manières les détenteurs de fortune et les entreprises cherchant à contourner son système fiscal et ses lois. Pour ce faire, il a largement contribué à créer les paradis fiscaux des Caraïbes à partir des années 1950. Sous l’impulsion de banquiers, juristes et hommes politiques canadiens, ces législations se sont converties en des États de complaisance dont certaines comptent aujourd’hui parmi les plus redoutables du monde. Un ancien ministre canadien des Finances a développé le modèle offshore des Bahamas. Un avocat de Calgary, ancien bonze du parti conservateur, a structuré aux Îles Caïmans des lois rendant opaque le secret bancaire. Le gouvernement du Canada a fait de la Barbade le havre fiscal de prédilection des entreprises canadiennes. Aujourd’hui, le Canada partage son siège dans les instances de la Banque mondiale et du Fonds monétaire international avec un collectif de paradis fiscaux de la Caraïbe britannique. Inévitablement, le Canada s’est trouvé dominé par ses propres créatures. Le voici à Halifax ou à Toronto liant ses destinés avec des institutions des Bermudes, quand le gouvernement fédéral n’en est pas à signer un accord de libre-échange avec le Panama, repaire mondial des narcotrafiquants. Cela, sur fond de rumeur persistante d’une annexion directe au territoire canadien de législations de complaisance telles que les Îles Turques-et-Caciques. Les échappatoires qu’il prévoit au profit des sociétés justifient à l’étranger des délocalisations vers chez lui, exactement comme s’il s’agissait du Luxembourg ou de Belize. Ce livre porte sur ces dérives qui, de la fin du XIXe siècle à aujourd’hui, font structurellement du Canada un paradis fiscal.

PARADIS FISCAUX : LA FILIERE CANADIENNE

ECOSOCIETE

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