The doctors who wrote the open letter decrying the complaints of their colleagues with respect to the proposed tax changes are right to be embarrassed. The greed and avarice on display here is truly breathtaking.

Let's take the doctor profiled at the start of this piece. After the 35% in overhead, she pulls in approximately $222,000 a year before tax. Using Canadian income distributions for 2015, the most recent I could find, that income is in the top 2% of the entire country. If we zoom out and look at the whole world, something people in the developed world are reluctant to do, that's in the top fraction of a percent. 

Taxing someone in the top 2 percent of income a fair rate is both good policy and morally right, particularly in a time of rising inequality and rising public debt. Doctors upset about these changes would do well to look beyond their own immediate circumstances and realize how lucky they are.