Every couple of years my firm gets an HST auditor in for a visit.  The big issue: do we export?  If we can't prove it we  might be circumventing the rules and they tell me I might have to pay HST on my exports.  Of course we export, the accounts receivable show this.  But the nice CRA guy says "it isn't certain" and my heart sinks.  

My point is that there is little chance that in the next three weeks they are going to get the legislation and the regulatory framework right.  They went too fast in the wrong track and the wreckage isn't going to help me make investments in my company, or in the startup community down in Waterloo.  Those 'passive' investments also create jobs and help Canadian ideas get into global markets.

Slow down.  Get it right.  Fight an election on taxation.  Have a real debate.  Fix what you can in government; there's lots of good work to be done there!

Don't mess with a problem that doesn't really exist.  Don't kill the economy.  Don't take my kids future away.