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"If $2,000/month... means that people are making more money than they were before, the problem is not CERB, but that workers are not fairly compensated for their labour with a living wage."
@Fox_E_Lori
's must-read op ed in the
@globeandmail
#cdnpoli
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By facing expulsion from the Ontario legislative assembly for wearing a keffiyeh, Sarah Jama exposes the limits of liberal inclusion—and centres the struggle against settler colonialism, in both Canada and in Palestine.
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By 9:27 a.m. today the average top Canadian CEO has already made the average Canadian worker's annual salary.
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The CCPA mourns the devastating loss of our funny, fearless, unapologetically feminist colleague, Kate McInturff. CCPA staff, board and partners remember Kate as a feminist trailblazer in public policy and gender-based research.
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The top 100 CEOs make 209 times more than the average worker in Canada and 316 more than someone making $15/hour. Maybe raising the minimum wage isn't the problem facing the
#cdnecon
#sdoh
#cdnpoli
#15andFairness
#CEO2018
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Thinking about Canada's highest paid CEOs today.
Hope they're doin OK😔.
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Earliest. Time. Yet.
By 10:09 am today, Canada's highest paid CEOs have made as much money as the average Canadian worker will make all year. Check out
@DavidMacCdn
's report for more:
#ceo2020
#cdnpoli
#cdnecon
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"I can’t sing myself offstage, but I leave a legacy of spreadsheets, graphs and love for you all."
@katemcinturff
's must-read reflections on her career and how a spreadsheet became her tool of choice in the fight for gender equality.
#canfem
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This tax cut will:
❗Cost $6 billion/year by 2023
❗Payout, on average, $13/month
❗Give the largest payouts to families earning between $143k and $195k.
Cdn middle class families earn $52k-112k per year.
#6billioncan
make life more affordable, but this tax cut won't.
#cdnpoli
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"A recent analysis from the
@ccpa
showed that when adjusted for inflation, wage gains for all federal workers since 2007 have been 7.8 per cent lower than the overall national average."
#PSACStrike2023
#canlab
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"Our housing system hasn’t suddenly failed. Instead it’s working exactly as designed, enriching property owners at the expense of everyone else."
@CCPA_Ont
political economist
@ricardo_tranjan
breaks down the supposed housing crisis, shares real solutions
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New research from
@DavidMacCdn
reveals that the majority of Canadian provinces have left billions in COVID-19 funds on the table.
Check out the situation where you live with our interactive map:
#cdnpoli
#COVID19
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The $61 million paid out to top execs at 4 of Canada's grocery chains could cover the $2/hour top up for 184,000 full-time workers for an entire month,
@DavidMacCdn
's analysis has revealed.
#COVID19
#cdnpoli
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As Canadians live through a cost-of-living crisis, it's a new Gilded Age for Canada’s rich. Top CEOs now make 246 times more than average workers. Read
@ccpa
senior economist
@DavidMacCdn
's report, "Canada's New Gilded Age: CEO Pay in 2022"
#canlab
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It's good news!
Canada, you're up next.👀
These extraordinary times and circumstances of call for extraordinary measures.
The US supports the waiver of IP protections on COVID-19 vaccines to help end the pandemic and we’ll actively participate in
@WTO
negotiations to make that happen.
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The
@ccpa
is saddened to learn of the passing of Ed Broadbent.
He committed his life to the advancement of human rights and watched Canada move from a "sharing and caring" society to the "new barbarism." He shared some of his views with us here:
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Canada's EI system "was built for a male breadwinner, 9-to-5 model. … It’s not built for gig work. It’s not built for more insecure work." Workers affected by
#COVID19
and running out of
#CERB
eligibility need modernized support, explains
@DavidMacCdn
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Minimum-wage workers can’t afford rent in most of Canada, study shows.
Great reporting by
@TessKalinowski
@TorontoStar
on our new report out today, Unnacomodating: Rental Wage in Canada by
@DavidMacCdn
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Given the debate about the "lavish" lifestyles that CERB affords its recipients, it seems like a good time to revisit
@DavidMacCdn
's research showing how much a renter needs to earn to make rent in Canada's major cities. Spoiler alert: it's more than $2000/month.
#RENTRELIEF
Our new report by
@DavidMacCdn
maps the housing rental affordability crisis from coast-to-coast. In 0% of neighbourhoods in Canada’s biggest cities can a minimum wage worker afford an average rental.
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⏰⏰⏰ It's 11:17 on Jan 4. ⏰⏰⏰
Canada's top paid CEOs have already been paid the average worker's annual income.
#cdnpoli
#TaxTheRich
#KeepingIt200
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We are thrilled to announce that
@ErikaShaker
has officially stepped into the role of Director at our office. Please help us welcome her to the helm!
#Ottawa
#cdnpoli
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National child care plan would add up to tens of thousands in savings for many families.
“Make no mistake: a national child care plan targeting fees will deliver more savings to parents than a tax credit or a monthly cheque ever could” says
@DavidMacCdn
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There is no province in Canada where workers can afford an apartment at minimum wage.
@ricardo_tranjan
@DavidMacCdn
#canlab
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Two new reports from
@FairTaxCanada
and us suggest that a substantial portion of the inflation Canadian consumers are experiencing today are attributable to companies boosting their prices well beyond the rate at which they are paying for their supplies.
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Canada: we need to talk about our income distribution problem. The latest research from
@LarsOsberg
details how unequal income distribution is contributing to Canada's growing inequality problem.
#cdnpoli
#sdoh
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"With Ontarians now dying at the rate of 100 a week, it seems obvious that we are in a public health emergency. Yet the premier continues to talk about striking a “happy balance” between protecting public health and boosting the economy."
#COVID19Ontario
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In a recent article, the
@CCPA_BC
revealed that Canadian billionaires increased their wealth by $78 billion since COVID began.
Time for a
#WealthTax
?
@1AlexHemingway
says yes.
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20 of the wealthiest Canadians have accumulated an additional $37 billion in wealth since the COVID-19 pandemic began, new analysis from
@1alexhemingway
and
@michalrozworski
reveals.
#cdnpoli
#COVID19
#taxfairness
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💵📈Are wages driving rising inflation?
Answer: No. In fact, 64 per cent of Canadian workers' wages have grown slower than inflation over the last two years, according to a new report from
@DavidMacCdn
.
And if you're a frontline worker, chances are your wages barely increased.
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Canada's highest paid CEOs are
#KeepingIt200
.
For the third year in a row,
@DavidMacCdn
's report on CEO wages for 2019 reveals that Canada’s 100 highest paid CEOs continued to receive more than 200 times what the average worker was paid.
#cdnpoli
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'24% of working tenant households don’t have a week’s worth of savings, and 42% can’t weather more than two weeks."
@ricardo_tranjan
looks at the looming crisis for Canada's working renters in his latest report
@CCPA_Ont
#COVID19
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New in
@ccpa
Monitor: When a worker takes a paycheck home, 100% is that income is taxable. Now, the rich in Canada are complaining because 66% of their highest level income will be taxable—and only above $250,000 in annual profits. By
@DavidMacCdn
#canlab
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Private clinics likely to increase wait times in
#Ontario
: "Ontario does not lack the physical space & equipment to improve wait times for surgeries and medical imaging; what's missing is the health-care workforce necessary,"
@a_longhurst
@CCPA_Ont
#canlab
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The pandemic has not led to lowered rents in Canada. Landlords are offering incentives or opting to leave units empty rather than lowering the rent,
@ricardo_tranjan
and
@HSAldridge
report:
#cdnpoli
#COVID19Canada
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As COVID-19 rages across Canada, new research from
@DavidMacCdn
reveals that the majority of provinces are sitting on billions in unspent emergency funds.
Learn more and check out our interactive map at
#cdnpoli
#COVID19
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"As soon as the daycare fees for their two daughters were reduced from $1,800 a month to $400, the couple immediately got family health insurance."
@starvancouver
interviewed families to see how $10/day
#childcare
changed their lives.
#cdnpoli
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Sears Canada's pension is $267m short. But since 2010, Sears paid $1.5b to shareholders – 5.5x times more than it would've cost to top up the pension. And they aren't alone. Our new report reveals $10.8b deficit in pensions of Canada's biggest companies.
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Who has the most progressive platform?
@DavidMacCdn
gives out grades:
http://t.co/j903D1rPRa
#cdnpoli
#elxn42
http://t.co/5Ve5BsSL6a
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"While Kate possessed a formidable and critical intellect, she was ultimately an optimist." We are so grateful to
@anne_kingston
for this lovingly crafted reflection on Kate McInturff and her work.
#canfem
#cdnpoli
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When CERB ends, over 2 million Canadians could be left without income support. The latest analysis from
@DavidMacCdn
details what's at stake:
#cdnpoli
#canlab
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NEW RELEASE: "Boundless Bonuses: Skyrocketing Canadian executive pay during the 2020 pandemic" by
@DavidMacCdn
and Alicia Massie.
Read the full report at:
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It's Debate Night in (English) Canada and we've got bingo!
We've also got prizes. See ⬇️
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When it comes to income inequality, Canada's top paid CEOs are
#KeepingIt200
.
@DavidMacCdn
's latest report reveals that, for the third year in a row, in 2019 Canada’s 100 highest paid CEOs got more than 200x what the average worker were paid.
#cdnpoli
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☐ Fair and progressive taxation
☐ Meaningful climate initiatives
☐ Funding to close gender gaps
☐ Futureproofing our economy and cities
☐ Investments in health care, education, and housing
Here's what we're looking for in
#Budget2019
#cdnpoli
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The LCBO strike is about: 1) stopping the destruction of actual jobs 2) protecting a public asset that belongs to the people of Ontario 3) protecting billions of dollars in revenues that fund provincial public services. By
@RandyFRobinson
@CCPA_Ont
#canlab
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Two years ago, we said goodbye to our brilliant and incomparable colleague, Kate. So much of Kate's work was focused on building women up, particularly young women. Today we're proud to introduce the first McInturff Fellow in Gender Justice: Heather Lawson
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Our new report by
@DavidMacCdn
maps the housing rental affordability crisis from coast-to-coast. In 0% of neighbourhoods in Canada’s biggest cities can a minimum wage worker afford an average rental.
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In
#Elxn44
, parties continue to treat renting a home as a phase, as an undesirable situation that people must overcome. It's time to shift the housing debate, writes
@ricardo_tranjan
.
#housing
#CdnPoli
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Canada’s 100 highest-paid CEOs broke every compensation record on the books in 2021! And those CEOs now make 243 times more than the average Canadian worker. Read
@CCPA
senior economist
@DavidMacCdn
's new report here:
#canlab
#inflation
#recession
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No matter what the landlord lobby says, the data is actually quite clear—rent controls do not limit the construction of new rental housing.
New op-ed by
@CCPA_Ont
political economist
@ricardo_tranjan
👇
My latest
@TorontoStar
: Rent controls don’t reduce housing supply, but they do limit profit.
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New financial supports are in place to help unemployed Canadian workers during
#COVID19
but new analysis from
@DavidMacCdn
shows how many workers are left out.
#cdnecon
#cdnpoli
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Now seems like a good time to mention that
@DavidMacCdn
's CEO pay report revealed that Galen Weston received $7,928,555 in compensation in 2018 alone.
Despite soaring first-quarter profits, the biggest grocery chain in the country says it’s ending the wage premium it had been paying front-line workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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"Disability advocates question why
#disability
benefit levels remain so low in the comparison to the $500 per week extended to those facing the loss of employment related to the pandemic under the CERB... “Do our lives count for less?”
@ScottKatherineJ
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Pujol is considered one of Mexico’s most prestigious restaurants. But, as
@latinamericanah
writes, chef Enrique Olvera has built this prestige on the appropriation of traditional Mesoamerican ingredients, making dishes palatable for mainly white audiences.
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Syed Hussan of
@MWACCanada
demands a better future for the 1.6 million migrant workers living in Canada who are disproportionately affected by COVID-19.
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This win didn't happen overnight. And it didn't happen alone.
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"A wealth tax is without question an effective way to decrease the inequality"—Senior Economist
@SheilaBlockTO
in the
@TorontoStar
#Elxn44
#cdnpoli
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As Canadians live through a cost-of-living crisis, it's a new Gilded Age for Canada’s rich. Top CEOs now make 246 times more than average workers. Read
@ccpa
senior economist
@DavidMacCdn
's report, "Canada's New Gilded Age: CEO Pay in 2022"
#canlab
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Women are being "driven out of their jobs by high child-care costs. When they return, they’ve lost income, skills, experience... It’s a systemic factor maintaining the wage gap between men and women. It’s sexist."
@Tom_Parkin_
talks
#childcare
costs
#sdoh
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Canada's CEOs are riding high heading into 2018:
✔️ Average pay shot up to $10.4m, from $9.6m in 2015
✔️ Received $49,738 by 10:57 a.m. on Jan 2: the annual wage of a Canadian worker
✔️ Made 209 times more than the average worker in Canada
#cdnpoli
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In a new survey, 9 in 10 CRA professionals agreed that "it is easier for corporations and wealthy individuals to evade and/or avoid tax responsibilities than it is for average Canadians."
#cdnpoli
#taxfairness
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Canadian executive pay rose 17% during the pandemic, CCPA finds.
Executive pay was up 17% — an average of $171,000 per top executive — in 2020 compared to 2019, largely attributable to alterations in bonus pay structure, the report said.
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Just a reminder that Loblaw's CEO is among the highest paid in Canada (
#41
in our top paid 100 CEO list)
#onpoli
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Moving from CERB to EI shrinks already perilously small safety nets for laid off workers and their families struggling to get by during the pandemic, new analysis from
@DavidMacCdn
reveals. Read his deep dive into the CERB/EI switch:
#cdnpoli
#sdoh
#CERB
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We're hanging out at
#broadbent2019
talking social, economic, and environmental justice and we are asking: what's the biggest issue facing Canada? Tweet us your top issue: climate change, income inequality, populism, housing, or health care and we'll add it to the map!
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5 things that should be in tomorrow’s
#Budget2015
(but probably won’t be)
#cdnpoli
#AFB2015
http://t.co/jQXsAFArrF
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"Decades of tax cuts have compromised the fiscal health of govt. Federal revenues are now at 14.4% of GDP, much lower than the 50-year average of 16.4%. In 2019 alone this 2% difference means lost revenue of $46 billion. It doesn’t have to be this way."
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"The dispossession of Indigenous peoples from their lands is a defining feature of colonialism."
@RandyFRobinson
and
@ErikaShaker
on why all settlers need to be paying attention to what is happening at
#1492LandBackLane
.
#cdnpoli
#UNDRIP
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“They all need to suspend evictions and they need to do it right now. We cannot be putting people on the streets when our medical authorities are telling people to stay home"
@ricardo_tranjan
#COVID19
@CCPA_Ont
#cdnpoli
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"Around two-thirds of Canadians have seen inflation outpace their wage gains over the pandemic, translating into an effective pay cut for millions of workers," a new CCPA report finds.
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"A wealth tax with rates of 1% on net worth over $20 million, 2% over $50 million and 3% over $100 million could raise nearly $20 billion in its first year”
@1alexhemingway
talks wealth tax
#cdnpoli
#TaxTheRich
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"One of the most insidious aspects of this announcement is the decision to make student fees optional. This is a direct attack on student unions which have been vocal opponents of conservative policies"
@ErikaShaker
digs into Ford's postsec plans
#onpoli
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A litany of reports, but little accountability for police violence against Black Canadians, writes
@AnthonyNMorgan
for the Monitor.
"We don’t have an information gap, we have a police accountability gap."
#BlackLivesMatter
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Happy
#EarthDay2021
For everyone following our
#JustTransition
& climate research, we’ve curated a reading list that we think you'd also like.
Links to all the referenced work in the thread. /1
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"The Bank is not predicting 60,000 pink slips but merely a slowdown in continued growth. The 60,000 figure is national, annual one."
@michalrozworski
brings much needed perspective to the
#MinimumWage
debate
#onpoli
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"With 4,444 schools, 233,000 workers, more than two million students, and an annual budget of over $30 billion—a drop in the bucket can seem like a lot when presented out of context." Read
@ricardo_tranjan
's board-by board, school-by-school analysis here:
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Great guide from
@globalnews
to help renters find what assistance is available in their province. Thanks to
@ealini
for this fantastic resource. Check out the full piece for details:
#COVID19
#Canada
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NEW RELEASE: “Mission Critical: A just and equitable recovery.”
#AFBMissionCritical
.
Read the AFB at
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Thanks
@ArmineYalnizyan
, we are proud of your leadership on income inequality. You make Canada a better place.
Some news: After 10 *incredible* years, this was my last day with
@ccpa
.
More news to come.
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Renter's market? New research from
@ricardo_tranjan
and
@HSAldridge
reveals that between Oct 2019 & Oct 2020, average rents for a two-bedroom unit in Canada went up by 3.5%. The inflation rate for the same period was 0.7%, 5x lower.
#cdnpoli
#COVID19
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"The 87 wealthiest families in Canada owned a collective $259B at the end of last year, or just shy of $3B apiece,
@DavidMacCdn
said. According to Stats Can data, that figure has increased by $850m between 2012 & 2016 — a jump of 37%"
#cdnpoli
#Inequality
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New report for tax filing day today!
@ccpa
senior economist,
@MarcLeeCCPA
shows that Canada’s tax system is not as progressive many think! The highest-income households have been paying increasingly less tax, proportionately, than lower-income households.
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