Tax avoidance is legal, and the CRA has a policy that Canadians SHOULD use the income tax act to reduce their taxes accordingly. Tax AVOIDANCE is NOT cheating!!! (Tax evasion on the other hand is cheating and is illegal). Anyone who ever claimed their spouse on their tax return or claimed their child's tuition as a tax credit is avoiding tax. Sprinkling income to a spouse or child over the age of 18 is a perfectly legal form of tax avoidance. Trudeau and Morneau want to take legal means of avoiding tax off the table and in the process are calling legal tax avoiders "cheats".  These people are not cheats. Mike Duffy....well, he didn't break any laws but it goes to show the real double standard in this country applies to those who govern us, not those who treat our sickness and injuries in a hospital!