I don't know about venetian blind trusts. This blind trust follows a form that was created and drafted by the Ethics Commissioner. I transferred all of my controlled assets into the blind trust in late October. The blind trustee is the legal owner of them all now, and I'm not to have any communication of any sort--no direction, no advice, no information about what's in there. I do not know and will not know what's in there. Once a quarter I'll be told what the value of it is.
There is a direct link between the Ethics Commissioner and the blind trustee so that the Ethics Commissioner's office will have the ability to know what's going on, but the purpose of the blind trust is to remove me and any knowledge I may have about my controlled investments and have them administered by a third party.