Exceptionally well put!   

The referenced royal commission on taxation was an extensive, comprehensive exercise in its scope and research and input from a broad cross section of Canadians - in particular groups most affected by potential changes - but the More Dough Morneau effort seems as you say to have been hurried along and written on the back of a napkin.

Rumour has it Lincoln wrote his immortal Gettysburg Address on the back of an envelope but surely even the trust fund twins would agree that our tax system is rather more complex than the Gettysburg Address which was essentially poetry not prose.

The arrogance of this PM and his finance minister seems to know no bounds as evidenced by this rushed exercise in the most complex and sensitive area of government and its interface with citizens.

If a comprehensive and independent royal commission on taxation was required in those simpler tax days of 1966, it is even more required now instead of a partisan tax scavenger hunt.