Growing Gap Project
Solutions for a fairer, more equal Canada
The CCPA’s Growing Gap project takes an in-depth and sustained look at one of the biggest challenges of our time: Worsening income and wealth inequality in Canada. Our team of economists and researchers have been tracking household income, wealth, spending and credit data, unearthing a troubling phenomenon.
- The pay gap between CEOs and minimum wage workers is far too big.
- The income gap between the rich and the rest of us is stubbornly high.
- We need to narrow the income gap between white workers and Indigenous, racialized, and immigrant workers.
- Poverty is far too high for such a wealthy country as Canada.
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Instability Implications of Increasing Inequality
What can be learned from North America? Download 1.13 MB 40 pages This study focuses on the implications of inequality trends in the U.S., Canada and Mexico over the last…
Federal budget worsens inequality, high unemployment future
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Les PDG vs le 99% : aucune argumentation lorsque l’on parle de salaire
CLIQUEZ ICI POUR CONSULTER LE RAPPORT. TORONTO – Les PDG les mieux rémunérés au Canada selon l’index TSX ont raison d’être heureux en cette nouvelle année. Dès midi le 3…
CEOs vs the 99%: No contest when it comes to pay
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. TORONTO—The highest paid 100 CEOs on Canada’s TSX Index had reason to cheer the New Year: By noon January 3, they had already pocketed $44,366…
Canada’s CEO Elite 100
The 0.01% Download 693.88 KB 21 pages The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ annual look at CEO compensation reveals that by 12:00 noon on January 3rd, the first official working…
Who Occupies the Sky?
The Distribution of GHGs in Canada Download 340.23 KB7 pages To create effective policy for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, it is important to identify who is emitting. This study…
Inequality is bad for business
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Incomes in Canada: Booming and Busted
Today’s release of the annual Income in Canada report is Statistics Canada’s first word on the impact of the Great Recession on Canadians’ incomes. The report in The Daily was…
Economics, Equality and Democracy
CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan gets up close and personal in this pivotal lecture on income inequality and democracy. Watch the TVO video of the lecture, which was produced in…
Colour code keeps workers out of good jobs: Study
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. TORONTO – Despite an increasingly diverse population, a new report on Canada’s racialized income gap shows a colour code is still at work in Canada’s…
Canada’s Colour Coded Labour Market
The gap for racialized workers Download 343.59 KB 20 pages This report draws on 2006 Census data to compare work and income trends among racialized and non-racialized Canadians. The authors…
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