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<strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="/topics/45-canadian-news" target="_blank">Canadian News</a><br /><strong>Written By:</strong> <a href="/profiles/C.M. Burns" target="_blank">C.M. Burns</a><br />
<strong>Date: </strong> Thursday, May 01 at 09:23<br /><br />
TORONTO — The earnings gap between the rich and the poor is widening in Canada, with incomes among recent immigrants showing especially dramatic declines in recent years, according to sweeping new census data.<br>
<p>Earnings among the richest fifth of Canadians grew 16.4 per cent between 1980 and 2005 while the poorest fifth of the population saw earnings tumble 20.6 per cent over the 25-year time period, Statistics Canada said in its 2006 census release on income and earnings.</p><br><a href="http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article/235930028-statscan-says-poor-getting-much-poorer">read more »</a>

[rearguard]

... and it took millions of our ever dwindling supply of savings to figure that out.

[Dr Caleb]

lol

Your tax dollars at work!

[anas555]

anas555
hi well i think that canadians need more advertisment abroad canada that is very important for Canada these days and need more investment outside Canada why not there are many places which they are good to invest at like Australia and newzealand and the uk time is going too fast and the world are changing so we must to be more effective at these time Australian look at Canadian as they are their big brothers ok the canadian dollar is raising now and that make the investments outside Canada more tough but Australian dollar also raising so it is good to invest at Australia and places else .
another thing we must keep on improving our media and improve that we have our own perfect standerds to make people invest in our country it is fine don't forget our strong nighbour go there superb reputation to make poeple invest at there country without thinking it is now the time not after the time is too short we have out own facilities and our own oil and gas out own big farms our own energy .

[kenmore]

anas555... sorry but your plan would just help the rich get richer.. its the poor working class that get screwed in this country .. esp when there is a tory government in ottawa.. the distribution of wealth is a one way directed commodity.. middle class business men and women and middle management are the ones who live on the edge of being self supporting and on welfare with the stroke of a pen.. the poor of course are kept there by the ongoing economic disparity. so the middle class pay most of the taxes.. really take it up the ass, and keep the rich rich.. and the peanuts left over are divied up amongst the poor.. its call tory economics 101..

[C.M. Burns]

During the 25 years in question, the Liberals were in power for 16 and the Tories 9. The Liberals had plenty of opportunity to correct the imbalance but they did nothing except make it worse. And it's called neo-LIBERAL economics for a reason.

[SphinxMontreal]

The rich get richer and the poor get the picture...read about it!

[Dr Caleb]

Feeling cranky tonight Sphinx?