They just needed "two weeks to flatten their opponents".

105 years later, and all levels of government now plunder our income relentlessly. They use that money to pay their hired attack dogs, order followers, and media mouthpieces to target any political dissent, or those who don't submit to their authoritarian edicts. They steal our hard earned money, and redistribute it to themselves and their political allies, as well as use it to bail out failing corporations, banks, and organizations. And, as we have seen recently, the federal government now uses that cozy relationship with the banks, combined with the power of the Emergencies Act, to literally go after, and seize hundreds of bank accounts for doing nothing more than peacefully protesting yet another authoritarian edict. This country is not a free country for anyone who won't bend the knee to these control freaks. The only people who claim to be free are those who do. Well, I've got news for you folks...if you have to bend a knee to authoritarians, you aren't free. Not even close.

I wonder how many Canadians actually know that there was no such thing as an "income tax" before 1917?
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A Temporary Wartime Measure? Income Tax
The First World War placed an unprecedented drain upon the financial resources of the Dominion of Canada. To better utilize Canada's finite resources, every aspect of supply was regulated by the Dominion Government. Rationing was introduced for everyday items from building materials to gasoline, to food. The government, limited in the ways that new revenue could by gained, also issued wartime savings bonds, raised import tariffs and levied new wartime taxes.
A luxury tax on tobacco and alcohol was the first of many taxes to be introduced during the Great War. By 1915, a Dominion tax had also been imposed on transport tickets, telegrams, money orders, cheques and patent medicines. Even staple items, such as tea and coffee, were taxed by the end of the War. After initial goods and services taxes were introduced, the Dominion Government moved to tax the incomes of businesses. The Business Profits War Tax Act of 1916 required all Canadian corporations having $50,000, or more, in capital to file a yearly tax return.

Personal income tax, introduced under the Income War Tax Act of 1917, was conceived -- like the other wartime taxes -- as a temporary measure. This act both expanded the scope of the Business Profits War Tax and introduced a tax based on yearly income to most Canadians. Those individuals who were exempt from the tax included the Governor General, foreign consuls, and those who were on active service overseas. Married Canadians with an income below $2,000, or unmarried Canadians with an income below $1,000 were also exempt from filing a tax return. Under the Income War Tax Act, eligible tax payers that did not submit a tax return were fined $100 per day with a maximum penalty of $10,000. This was an incredible fine considering, for example, that an annual married income of $3,000 was only expected to pay $20 in income tax!
https://wartimecanada.ca/sites/default/files/documents/IncomeWarTax.1917.pdf