Garth Turner, (left) the Conservative MP for the Ontario riding of Halton, decided to help Finance Minister Jim Flaherty with his budget preparations. So Turner held a series of town hall-style meetings in his riding and prepared a thick report for Flaherty to read. He recently delivered that report and has now made it public. Among other things, Turner urges his own government to: – Scrap the capital gains deferral plan – Adopt income splitting, whereby a higher-income earning spouse can dump some income and the tax liability on the lower-income earning spouse. I've attached the highlights as handed out by Turner.