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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Manitoba families struggling to get ahead: Study
WINNIPEG – Manitoba families are working harder but the vast majority is struggling to get ahead, says a study by the Canadian Centre for Policy…
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A tale of two pandemics: the rich and the rest of us
On the whole, Canada’s richest one per cent got a decent raise in the first year of the pandemic; the bottom 50 per cent? Not so much.
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6 things you need to know about income inequality in Canada
Income inequality went down between 2015 and 2020, thanks to government supports. But COVID-19 economic shutdowns threw a wrench into the works.
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The Great Sidestep: Income and wealth inequality swells with little government action
Government custodians of wealth and power have been unwilling to address the income and wealth pyramid in Canada. They neglect this at our peril.
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Is the ‘Freedom Convoy’ a sign of inequality-fuelled escalation of violent class conflict?
Resentment over growing wealth and inequality in Canada helped to generate sympathy toward the Convoy insurrection
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Corporate executive pay rose an average of $171K in 2020 despite pandemic: report
Tweaks to bonus pay rules helped protect top executives’ pay CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—Top executives of some of Canada’s largest companies…
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Federal action plan for women’s economic recovery must target those left behind: Report
New study reviews a year of COVID-19’s impacts on women in the labour market CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—On International Women’s Day…
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Women, work and COVID-19
Priorities for supporting women and the economy Download 864.51 KB67 pages This report looks at the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economic…
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COVID-19 and looming climate crisis upending policy status quo: Report
New study speculates on what lies ahead in post-COVID-19 CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA and HALIFAX — An expert who has been…
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From Keynesian Consensus to Neo-Liberalism to the Green New Deal
75 years of income inequality in Canada Download 587.01 KB40 pages This report tracks Canadian income inequality through 75 years of growth and recessions and…
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The Golden Cushion
CEO compensation in Canada Download 492.96 KB 24 pages This report looks at CEO pay among Canada’s top-paid chief executive officers in 2019, based on company…
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Heading into the pandemic, Canada’s highest paid CEOs made 202 times more than average worker pay in 2019
OTTAWA––Heading into the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada’s 100 highest paid CEOs made 202 times more than the average worker made in 2019, according to a new…
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