the realty is that virtually nobody pays enough taxes in canada. the only demographic that pays close to enough taxes is the super rich. that's ok when we're talking about very poor people, who get subsidies and need subsidies, but it's really not ok when we're talking about a middle class that could pay for itself but is instead being massively subsidized. this is the result of decades of income tax cuts on the middle class, which has reduced the middle class to a bunch of welfare cases that need government subsidies, when they used to be the economic engine that generated wealth via a stable tax base.

canada has cut taxes on the middle class for too much and needs a substantive income tax hike for middle class earners, or at the least a long term moratorium on further tax cuts for the middle class.