No, Rob, the hottest thing in personal finance isn't dividend stocks, it's private investment, and it's not clear to me where that's figuring in the overall numbers here.   The real money is nowhere on your radar screen.

If you want to undermine confidence in markets among "ordinary" people, it would be a huge mistake to tamper with dividend gross-up rules affecting TFSA invesments and not touch private investments.   It would further amplify the income disparity issues that already exist.

However, I can see this one coming like a freight train.