I can just smell the righteous indignation dripping off of your words, and the neo-con G&M readers are loving it!  You don't know who I am, so no suggestions from you on work e.t.c, please, but I certainly don't have a problem with people being taxed on market speculation, which is not a hard days work, which you'd know, right, because you work really hard.  Set some aside in a TFSA if you're really worried about taxes on capital gains. The rot of our times is rampant individualism and the lack of any commitment to our society, politics and country by NIMBY individuals. Suck it up.