Harper didn't have to listen to lil' Jim, did he? If it's OK for Harper and Flaherty to trumpet loud and clear that they would not tax income trusts without realizing that they couldn't afford it and then backed out later, hurting a lot of seniors whose money went into those vehicles, then it is certainly OK for Trudeau to backtrack on election reform which has not impacted anybody.

BTW, I have a TFSA but I disagreed with raising the limit to $10,000 which the treasury could not afford, particularly when there was already evidence that day traders were misusing TFSAs to tax shelter their speculations.