Boutique tax credits dominate Liberals and Conservatives campaigns once again | CBC News
To understand why these boutique tax proposals are so disappointing to policy experts, look first at why the broadly based approaches met with their approval.
Both the Liberal and Conservative broadly based tax proposals targeted the same group of Canadians. Two-thirds of Canadians make less than $46,000 a year; both the Liberal and Conservative plans would apply to that large cohort and reach a huge number of Canadians.