Commentary Happy New Tax Increase. The planned hike in Canada Pension Plan and employment insurance premiums has not merely gone ahead, it has gone up, because the toil of citizens is insufficient to satisfy the needs of the state. Something is upside down here. In my 2016 documentary “True, Strong and Free” on fixing the Constitution, whose key recommendations have unaccountably not yet been implemented, I observed that historically Canada “has always been a land where the government could be small because the citizens were big.” But, I warned, the state had gone some considerable distance from being a servant of the people toward being their master. This process has been dramatically illustrated in the COVID crisis, in which the main driver of lockdown was the health not of the public but of the public medical system. And as usual, the institutional and “practical” problem is fundamentally intellectual. The basic …