The Communists Also Did This

According the Canadian Charter of Rights and Human Freedoms, there is no right to private property:

The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms does not directly protect property rights. The Charter was enacted as part of the Constitution Act, 1982, which affirmed the Constitution as the supreme law of Canada and provided that any law that is inconsistent with the Constitution is of no force or effect. The Charter guarantees certain individual rights against intrusion by the state and gives the courts the power to provide a remedy to anyone whose Charter rights are denied. For example, section 7 of the Charter reads:

Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof except in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice.

If property rights had been included in the Charter, certain laws restricting or removing property rights would be unconstitutional, and the courts would have been able to strike them down. But property rights were deliberately excluded from the Charter (the reasons for this omission are subject to some debate that cannot be summarized adequately in this guide), and subsequent proposals to amend the Charter by adding protection for private property have not been successful.

If the Liberals get back in, it will be gone for good:

A Thursday ago, the Conservative Party of Andrew Scheer posted a tweet that probably answered why the CRA was likely digging for the information about the sale of our home, and likely the homes of millions of others.

The federal election is now only a month away, of course, so dirt digging is a big part of the game — especially this election.

And thus came the Tories’ tweet.

“@Justin Trudeau and @TOAdamVaughan have a secret plan to tax the sale of your home at 50%,” it reads. “This is Trudeau’s secret agenda: tax hikes to pay for his massive deficits. You work hard, you increase the value of your home, and the Liberals take 50%. How is that fair? #NotAsAdvertised.”

Fifty percent would be criminal, of course. Even the sketchiest credit-card provider and those devious pay-day loan outfits aren’t that greedy.

But any tax on the sale of one’s main home would also be wrong, unless there was a business link.

Yet, if the Trudeau Liberals get re-elected, any of the profits people use from the sale of their principal residence to fund their kids’ post-secondary years, or to provide a cushion for retirement, could be cut in half in some cases.

This prohibitive to owning any property. Why work for a house when the sale of it would cost you more?