But if anyone has suggestions in the way to think about this and the trade offs or considerations maybe worth weighing I would greatly appreciate the insight and knowledge.

If there's a number of small MF in your area and these aren't trading at ridiculous prices (like here in Atlanta), maybe that's the way to go.

You may very well hold investments in your IRA today that would be prohibited by the proposed legislation.The bill would also prohibit IRA owners from investing in (1) non-publicly traded entities in which the IRA owner and related entities (including the IRA itself) own more than a 10% interest or (2) any entity in which the IRA owner is an officer or director, regardless of ownership percentage.

Long term buy and hold through a tfsa account.I would think trading on the Toronto exchange makes sense for Canadians. 

Meaning a person can be both a dealer and investor.To determine if the taxpayer is a dealer three questions must be answered:(a) What is the taxpayer's trade or business?

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Also known as “credit invisibles,” these are mostly low-income minorities and immigrants, and having access to their personal habits and behavior as exhibited on the internet is supposed to help banks and other lenders “profile” them precisely enough to determine if they should be given a loan.On the other hand, citizens who are “scorable” but whose score is low might suffer in the new system now in the making, as their online activity could persuade lenders to cut them off from access to money.Although the move in this direction looks inevitable, some key answers are missing: what data scraped from the internet will be used to determine someone’s credit rating, and how it will be secured.IMF’s post warns, however, to expect an “efficiency-privacy trade-off.”https://reclaimthenet.org/imf-...

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