This article assumes that the capital gains tax will continue more or less intact, with the exception that the inclusion rate of 50% is unlikely to decrease and more likely to increase as long as the current government is intent on spending uber alles. 

One opposition politician has the elimination of capital gains tax in his platform. There are sound reasons for eliminating the tax, which acts somewhat like colon cancer on the economy, by ensuring that capital is not freed up for investment in productive assets, and by restricting the sale of property subject to the tax, creating artificial shortages of some classes of real estate. These are just examples, but worst of all is the inflation tax on long term assets, where there is no allowance for devaluation of the dollar. 

Hence, setting up a trust to avoid capital gains taxation might not be a good idea.

 Consider limiting growth of an asset to avoid such tax, versus maximizing gains to pay tax out of the future gains