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Canada’s richest 86 people have as much wealth as the poorest 11.4 million
… the super-rich list of Canadian residents has little to do with income in the traditional sense… None of the 86 are company CEOs… Instead, the ones on the list are there by virtue of being company founders or related to company founders… The super-rich have gotten there by creating and trading assets, whether companies, real estate or securities. “We often focus on income inequality but that’s a socialist paradise compared to wealth inequality,”
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Canada’s 1% already well occupied
The top 1% aren’t tax slouches. They pay more than 20% of all federal income tax. But they do disproportionately benefit from some tax expenditures. For instance, they get over 70% of the total benefit of the partial inclusion of capital gains from income and almost 80% of the benefit from different investment tax credits… If a tax expenditure is fair and efficient… the fact that one percenters use it most is irrelevant. But if it’s of dubious merit and, besides, the benefits go mainly to people at the top, then it’s twice damned.
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Enforce Ontario’s law on access for the disabled
… since the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act became law… in 2007 – the Liberal government’s lack of interest in upholding its own rules has created unconscionable delays for the disabled… The act requires that companies with 20 or more employees file electronic reports detailing how they accommodate customers with disabilities, train staff and handle customer feedback. As of last fall, a whopping 70 per cent (36,000) hadn’t bothered to do so.
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A kinder, gentler Canada? Myth busted in one graph
… the U.S does the least of the advanced industrialized countries to combat inequality through government taxes and transfers… Canada languishes at the bottom of that barrel too… This redistributive fade in Canada is considered among the most dramatic among the 34-member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
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Economic opportunity ends First Nation culture of dependence
If poverty is the only lifestyle you know, it is very difficult to realize there is a way out… First Nations that are succeeding – strong employment levels, healthy communities, few social ills – appear to have gained a level of independence, and have achieved it mostly through economic development… The despair that comes with poverty is slowly disappearing, We know that to become a strong independent nation, we need to have strong independent members.
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Bold report shows Canada how to achieve true access to justice
… “A Roadmap for Change”… calls for a user-friendly system, operating in plain language and geared to keeping people out of court unless there’s absolutely no alternative. “The current system, which is inaccessible to so many… is unsustainable,” write the authors. “Access to justice is at a critical stage in Canada. What is needed is major, sustained and collaborative system-wide change.”… For the sake of fairness, the system needs to better assist this growing legion of unrepresented litigants.
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Harper, king of the tax credits
This week the Parliamentary Budget Office reported on the cost of an adult fitness tax credit: $286-million over five years. … There are three reasons political parties conjure up targeted tax breaks. The first is to address a pressing social concern. The second is to implement changes consistent with their philosophy. The third is to buy votes. And in our democratic system, far too often, parties choose Door Number Three.
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Predistribution: The neglected side of the inequality debate
There can be no doubt that progressive income taxes, which bear most heavily on the most affluent, are redistributive. So are income support programs such as public pensions, unemployment insurance and social assistance, which disproportionately benefit lower- and middle-income groups… That said, the biggest problem is on the market income side. The OECD reported in its landmark inequality study in 2011 that “the single most important driver [of growing inequality] has been growing inequality in wages and salaries.”
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Why inequality rises unequally
Canada has much lower income inequality after transfers and taxes than the United States, and you might be tempted to attribute this to much greater Canadian redistribution – but you would be wrong. In fact, the reduction in inequality due to Canada’s progressive transfer and tax system (28 per cent) is only slightly greater than that of the United States (24 per cent). The main factor is much lower inequality of “market incomes” in Canada
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The myth of income inequality: Since the bleak 90s, things have actually gotten better
A society in which the fortunes of the broad majority have ceased to improve will perforce be an unhappy one; a society with swelling numbers of the poor damn well ought to be. If income is increasingly concentrated among a permanent elite, it raises fundamental, and troubling, questions: whether social mobility is real, whether merit is rewarded, whether democratic government is even possible. A divided society is a recipe for social strife…
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