I agree about dividends but your yarn about capital gains is nonsense that could apply to any kind of investment as all investment gains get nibbled away at by inflation. As to debasing the currency, is that why it started going down under Harper and why did Pierre Trudeau talk it up over $1 US?! Maybe, just maybe, the value of the Canadian dollar has something to do with the strength of the US dollar?

Some rich people evade taxes anyway as we have learned from the Panama Papers and from all the tax havens around the world where they stash unreported income. In Greece, people just don't like paying taxes so they don't - it has nothing to do with the tax regime itself. The greatest threat to Canada's tax base is that so many Canadians want lower taxes and better services.