The wealth gap is worse than you think
Kate Robertson / NOW Magazine
A new video by the Broadbent Institute shows that Canadians would be surprised at how big the gap really is between the rich and poor in this country.
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Statement on the passage of Bill C-525
The Conservative government ended the 2014 Parliamentary session with another attack on Canada’s democratic institutions with Tuesday’s passage of Bill C-525 in the Senate.
The intention of the private member’s bill by backbench Conservative MP Blaine Calkins is to make it harder for workers in federally regulated workplaces to unionize and easier for a minority of workers to decertify unions.
Read moreGap between rich and poor greater than most Canadians think
Sara Mojtehedzadeh / The Toronto Star
Canadians drastically underestimate the country’s wealth gap but still show broad support for policies such as higher income taxes to address the problem, according to new research by an Ottawa-based think tank.
Higher taxes answer to closing wealth gap: survey
David Akin / QMI
OTTAWA — They're richer than we think.
A new poll from the progressive think-tank The Broadbent Institute concludes that Canadians do not have an accurate picture of the difference between the amount of wealth controlled by the country's richest people and the amount controlled by the poorest.
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