It is not just the Prime Minister who is dodging the personal questions about private corporations. The entire Liberal party, and particularly the Cabinet, are dodging the real debate. The proposed tax changes are not about fairness, but about a growing public issue, the increasing numbers of individual Canadians who are turning to private corporations and dividend incomes to protect themselves, and to reduce their taxes. This parallels an earlier issue of increasing numbers of companies turning to income trusts to reduce taxes. The previous Conservative government stopped that cold, with no consultation and no debate. The Liberals should do the same, not by changing the tax rules for private companies, but by charging dividend incomes the same tax rates as all other incomes. Presumably, at some point, there was a policy reason behind this approach to less tax on dividends. This is a good example of the unintended results of trying to achieve public ends through indirect means.