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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Recovery through Equality
Developing an Inclusive Action Plan for Women in the Economy Download 301.84 KB8 pages December 7 marks the 50th anniversary of the release of the report from the Royal…
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Without new rules, COVID-19 will mean windfall profits for payday lenders: CCPA report
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA— Canada’s payday loan companies will see windfall profits at the expense of low- and moderate-income people if…
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Swimming with the sharks
Poverty, pandemics, and payday lenders Download 424.67 KB16 pages As COVID-19-related layoffs affect workers across the country, Canada’s payday loan companies will see windfall profits…
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COVID-19 crisis: Nearly half of working, renting households have a month of savings or less, report finds
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT TORONTO – Close to half of working renters in Canada don’t have enough savings to pay their bills…
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Child poverty by federal ridings in Canada
There is room to set more ambitious goals on an accelerated timeline.
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Want better stock performance? Pay your top executives less
At the start of January we released two reports looking at corporate executive pay. The first, our annual report on the 100 richest Canadian CEOs, calculated…
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Canada’s population is changing but income inequality remains a problem
New 2016 Census data shows an increasing share of the population comprises racialized, immigrant, and Indigenous people in Canada but the income gap between them…
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Canada’s 1% still flying high
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7 things the Census teaches us about income inequality
It has been years since Statistics Canada has been able to release Census data on income inequality in Canada but the numbers are out at…
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Time to tackle the big fish in an ocean of tax exemptions
When federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau tabled his 2017 federal budget in March, he pledged to make Canada’s tax system fairer. To his credit, he…
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Why is it so hard to close the gender wage gap?
The wage gap is pretty easy to understand. I do a job. You do a job. I get paid more. You get paid less. Unfair.…
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Throwing Money at the Problem
10 Years of Executive Compensation Download 938.19 KB28 pages The CCPA has been tracking CEO pay in Canada for 10 years, and in that time…
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