Canada would surely be competing with India in this particular event of the Bribery Olympics. Lets call it the Refund Race. You'll soon see why.
An important mafioso had his tax filing audited, resulting in his having to pay a large undisclosed amount in back taxes. Instead of being penalised for the delay in payment someone in the media discovered that he received a tax refund of $400,000 in the mail (everybody due to receive a refund gets a govt cheque in the mail). When this was revealed, there were a lot of red faces in the Quebec offices of the CRA (Canada Revenue Agency). Department personnel had to go to the mafioso's house to beg for the money's return. How this happened is not yet explained and whose heads rolled is being kept under wraps. When the govt is asked to reveal details of cases like thi, the reply usually is "we do not comment on personnel matters to protect the privacy of the individuals concerned". Another feather in Quebec's cap already sporting enough such feathers to make even a first nation's chief blush. Roland. Sent from Samsung Mobile
