text: My guess is that most Canadians won't care about this unless or until it becomes a reality, as is often the case with public policy. Unlike the business lobby, apparently, most Canadians seldom get very excited by theoretical policy matters. As far as I'm aware Morneau has said little publicly on the issue other than that his department is conducting a broad review of all tax exemptions, which reportedly collectively cost the federal treasury about $100 billion annually. Much of this generosity, of course, is extended to reduce the taxation of investment and business income. Employer-paid benefits plans represent only about 3 percent of the total, which should prompt a reasonably objective observer to wonder why the business lobby and its media acolytes have cast it, alone, as the litmus test of fairness and equity and to suspect that the strategy is likely a smokescreen.