Who uses offshore tax shelters? One of Canada’s richest women – Toronto Star

Louise Blouin has been called one of the richest women in Canada in the upper half of the countrys one per cent.

You have likely never heard her name.

But over the past 15 years, the Montreal native rose to the pinnacles of the international art publishing world, building an empire that included five secretive offshore companies based in the British Virgin Islands, according to documents obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and Süddeustche Zeitung and shared with the Toronto Star.

The documents, which have never been seen before, along with a rare interview with the media-shy Blouin, provide a uni…

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