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Statistics do indeed support headlines about record high Canadian incomes.
Remember, these are percentages on already big differences. With this trend in place, every year makes the wealth-poverty difference greater. In the same period, the share acquired by the richest 20 per cent of Canada's population rose to almost half of all income. The powers that be in Canada simply don't want to help the poor escape from their poverty because they are useless to the very economy that created them. Many have no marketable skills.