NP: Canadian tennis star, Eugenie Bouchard, officially became a resident of the Bahamas earlier this year. Long considered a tax haven, the country charges its residents no personal income tax or corporate tax. Asked about the story on the campaign trail Tuesday, François Legault, leader of Quebec’s right-leaning Coalition Avenir Québec, told reporters he didn’t like it. “I think we should live where we were born, where we learned to play tennis and pay taxes in our country,” he said.
Despite his comments this week, the CAQ’s Legault has been criticized for hypocrisy on the issue. In 2016, Legault told reporters that Air Transat, the airline he co-founded in 1986, had never taken advantage of tax havens, but later admitted it had created a subsidiary in Barbados, though he insisted it wasn’t to avoid taxes.
“Worse yet (than individuals using tax havens), it’s companies that register their subsidiaries in tax havens to circumvent paying their share of taxes, as has been done by Air Transat in Barbados while François Legault was its CEO,” said Nadeau-Dubois.
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