You can kiss new housing to help affordability concerns goodbye. No chance for green technology in Canada. And forget finding investors to help small and mid sized businesses grow because that’s the guaranteed result of doubling the tax on capital gains.

If you did then you probably need a hug because you’re all alone. And it’s no comfort to the rest of us that it was all government planned and executed. Let’s hear it for the bureaucrats.

Are you really buying that you can dramatically raise taxes on business and not impact economic growth? Because if you are – next time you’re talking to the Easter Bunny tell him the tooth fairy called.

Not much, unless your goal is a bigger and more expensive bureaucracy. Only a crazy person travels down the same road and expects to arrive at a different destination, which begs the question – are we nuts?