You can tell how desperate the federal Liberals are — and how many political eggs they’ve put in their capital-gains basket — by just how deranged they have become in defending the main tax hike from their April budget.
First, it was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland trying to frighten Canadians into believing that without the $20-billion tax on doctors, farmers, small-business owners, tech firms and cottage owners, Canada will quickly devolve into a dysfunctional wasteland where marauding mobs wielding pitchforks and torches wander the streets looking for the hides of “the rich.”
