Compiled by Danielle Martak | Posted on The Public Intellectuals Project
Number of Canadians below the low-income cut off in 2007: 3.5 million [i]
Percentage of women incarcerated in Canada for poverty-related crimes: 80% [ii]
Annual cost to keep a female prisoner behind bars: $175,000 [iii]
Percentage of Aboriginal children living in poverty: 25% [iv]
Estimated funding to be cut from Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada in 2014: $ 127,462,000 [v]
Factor by which a child from a family earning over $100,000 is more likely to attend post-secondary school than a child from a low-income background: 2 [vi]
Percentage of jobs that require post-secondary education: 75% [vii]
Canadian average income in 2007: $38,200 [viii]
Minimum amount a family needs to earn to get any benefit from Harper’s income splitting initiative: $41,000 [ix]
Minimum amount a family needs to earn to get the majority of the benefits from income splitting: $100,000 [x]
Amount of annual government revenue to be lost to income splitting: $2.5 billion [xi]
Cost of new tough-on-crime legislation: $19 billion [xii]
Estimated total cost of the war in Afghanistan: $28 billion [xiii]
Amount of extra revenue the federal government would be receiving in 2012 if it had not cut corporate taxes by 6% since 2006: $13 billion [xiv]
Increase in amount of savings that corporations did NOT use to stimulate growth from 2006–2010: $32 billion [xv]
Number of governments in 54 member nations of the British Commonwealth that have been found in contempt of parliament: 1 [xvi]
Number of times the current Canadian government has been found in contempt of parliament for not disclosing its planned costs: 1 [xvii]
[i] “A New Year’s Resolution: A Challenge to the Harper Government”
[ii] Ibid
[iii] Ibid
[iv] “Canada Still Accused of Failing Its Poor”
[v] “The Cuts Behind the Curtain”
[vi] “Time To Do Away With Financial Barriers to Higher Education in BC”
[vii] Ibid
[viii] “Infographic Visualizes Rising Income Inequality in Canada”
[ix] “Robin Hood in Reverse: The Real Numbers Behind Income Splitting”
[x] Ibid
[xi] “Health Transfers: More on Flat Tires and Etiquette”
[xii] “Controversial Crime Bill to Cost Canadians $19 Billion”
[xiii] “Afghanistan’s Price”
[xiv] “What Did Corporate Tax Cuts Deliver?”
[xv] Ibid
[xvi] “In Contempt of Parliament, In Contempt of the Reasons for Parliament”
[xvii] Ibid
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