That is because over the last 15-20 years, government created all types of credits for business, especially large corporations, and reduced their income taxes substantially due to lobbying under the illusion that they can get this money back through different types of taxes, mostly from employees. What actually happened is that automation and business migration out of Canada increased and hoped-for employment did not materialize so government revenues fell short while companies benefited. In addition, aging population and other internal factors resulted in an increase in funding from the federal to the provincial levels, thereby magnifying the problem. Government is broke and will never recognize its mistakes, so now they turn to another source of funding that will allow the private sector to charge us for the service directly so government cannot be blamed for it.