# Claim table — home equity tax warning

| Claim | Evidence | Label |
|---|---|---|
| Tap the Maple video exists and warns about home equity tax risk. | YouTube page, metadata, transcript, preserved MP4. | Confirmed source claim. |
| Evan Siddall was CMHC CEO and Bank of Canada special adviser. | Public bio/Wikipedia capture; CMHC speech page names him as CMHC president/CEO. | Supported. |
| Siddall gave a 2018 CMHC speech on housing wealth and intergenerational inequity. | CMHC speech page captured. | Confirmed. |
| CMHC/Generation Squeeze Solutions Lab examined housing wealth and tax policy. | CMHC project profile and CMHC Solutions Labs capture. | Confirmed. |
| Generation Squeeze report recommended an annual, deferrable, progressive surtax on homes over $1 million. | Extracted PDF text. | Confirmed report recommendation; not law. |
| Carney appointed Siddall as inaugural chair of Build Canada Homes. | YouTube description/transcript says this; PM search did not surface official result in this pass. | Video/source lead; official appointment record still wanted. |
| Canada’s dollar dropped 25% since 2015. | FRED data does not support this exact phrasing. | Corrected: latest is ~15.5% below strongest 2015 reading; CPI up ~28% in saved CPI file. |
| Home equity tax is “theft.” | User/editorial position; article frames as no-go/raid/second tax rather than a legal finding of theft. | Opinion. |