Canadian billionaire wealth up by $78 billion

There's the super rich and there's the rest of us.

The wealth of Canada’s billionaires has increased by $78 billion since March 2020 while 5.5 million Canadian workers lost their jobs or had more than half of their hours cut at the pandemic’s peak, new research shows. Economist Alex Hemingway demonstrates how a wealth tax on the super rich is one policy to help achieve more equality. Read his latest research.