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Confidential Details and Canada Revenue Agency

Canada Revenue Agency: The highly confidential details, including home addresses of taxpayers and the value of tax credits they were granted, are contained in a copy of a Canada Revenue Agency spreadsheet covering the years 2008 to 2013. , according to CBC. "Letting confidential figures slip that way, is very sloppy I'm sure they didn't do it on purpose," Atwood told on Tuesday. Detailed tax information about the private lives of hundreds of Canadians many of them rich and famous was sent to News by Canada tax agency in a major privacy breach. The 18 pages include information on donations made by such Canadian luminaries as author Margaret Atwood, former prime minister Jean Chr tien, grocery magnate Frank Sobey, cartoonist Lynn Johnston, pollster Allan Gregg, financier Stephen Bronfman, former executive Richard Stursberg, Olympics chief Richard Pound and many others. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.