HALIFAX – Canada’s national revenue minister says Ottawa will go after the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in the courts to force it to provide leaked data naming people who have used offshore tax havens.
Gail Shea said today that the department is pursuing all possible legal options to compel the release of the list.
The CBC, the sole Canadian member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, has refused to give Ottawa a list it says includes 450 Canadians.
A spokesman for the CBC’s English services said in an interview that the broadcaster will not reveal its sources nor provide the list to the government.
Chuck Thompson also says the broadcaster will mount a legal defence against any attempts to obtain the list from its journalists.
Shea says the department believes journalists must hand over the list if there is a suspicion of tax evasion.
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