True that some of the other tax changes under consideration would be higher risk to the broader economy.  However, taxable health benefits would be about as politically popular as photo radar in Ontario in the '90s.  

It's also effectively suck and blow by Trudeau.  He stands in front of elites in Germany two weeks ago speaking platitudes about corporations needing to provide good full-time jobs with benefits to workers rather than precarious contracts.  Then, out of the other side of his mouth, he refused to rule out sticking to those very workers who he wants to see permanently employed.   People will start to see through this soon enough.