Ms. MacKay,

Ask a Canadian resident if they would rather pay to Ottawa a 2% yearly income tax rate or if instead they would prefer to pay a 20% yearly income tax rate. You'll get the same answer every time: They would prefer to pay the 2% income tax rate. 

To which any reasonable observer would say "so what"? The fact of the matter is that Ottawa sets policies with larger concerns in mind than merely trying to align with the average Joe's mercantile wishes. And so the federal tax rate is much nearer 20% than 2%.

You speak of loopholes. Are you kidding me? Our present system's loopholes are why the most expensive parts of Vancouver, houses 4 million a pop, are owned in large part by POVERTY-LEVEL income (roll eyes) housewives and university students. Guess where the money comes from.

You claim my proposed property-tax approach would merely benefit lawyers and fail. Sorry, you have ZERO data and ZERO evidence to prove your claim because the approach has NEVER been tried here.