Despite this proposed capital gains tax hike not being law, that isn’t stopping the Canada Revenue Agency — the taxman in common verbiage — from enforcing it!

The only difference between Canada and a banana republic nowadays is we don’t grow bananas.

For naive folk clinging to the quaint notion that Parliament reigns supreme in directing our affairs by passing national laws, consider this snippet. Eight months ago, Chrystia Freeland — who recently jumped before being pushed from her job as federal finance minister — introduced a budget in which the taxable portion of capital gains would increase from 50 to 66 per cent.

https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/nelson-rule-law-under-assault-canada