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John Stapleton: A Ball Player, a Cop, a Janitor, and a Welfare Recipient

Posted on News & Blogs by John Stapleton · January 16, 2013 7:42 AM

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To whom do we compare ourselves when we think about reducing inequality?

On June 6, 2012, former Toronto mayor John Sewell and conservative MPP Peter Shurman had the following exchange before the Ontario Parliamentary Committee Hearings on the Ontario Budget Bill (55):

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Inequality’s a problem for Canada, too

Posted on News & Blogs by Ed Broadbent · November 28, 2012 4:49 AM

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I don’t know whether it’s smugness or indifference, but we Canadians can be a self-deluding lot. Growing inequality, portrayed recently in The Economist as a global scourge, when viewed from Canada, seems to be a problem only for others.

After all, it was other countries’ banks that crashed in 2008. It’s in southern Europe that tens of thousands are taking to the streets. And it was in France and the United States that recent elections were fought over the fact that those who created the mess, the top 1 per cent, are still getting big bonuses and low tax rates.

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