Rmut 

Maybe you didn't know - Capital gains are a potential result of assuming risk to make investments using one's after tax capital. Another potential result is a capital loss.

Very different from regular employment income. So the tax is different and needs to be different.

Increasing capital gains taxes will result in decreasing investment - investment that is needed to create private sector jobs and strengthen the economy 

If the private sector cannot create jobs and pay ever increasing taxes, who will support the 50% of lower income Canadians who pay virtually no income tax, along with the bloated and overpaid public sector? Maybe just increase debt and let our children/grandchildren pay?