Regional Disparities in Canada
There is a crisis in Canada, a crisis that won't go away. I am talking about the many disparities that face Canadians everyday. Regional disparities are not new to Canada, nor are they unique to this country. There is little evidence of progress toward greater economic equality of income, and employment opportunity. This country must get to the root of the problem. All Canadians are or should be aware that Canada is a regional country. We usually think of six regions; But most of the time we reduce that to three areas; Income is one of the most obvious measures of inequality. This is a measure of income earned from employment, from employment, farm income, business, income and investment income, plus income received from government transfer payments. Without these transfer payments the poorer countries would be worse off then
Canada's economic growth is taking place unevenly across the country. As a result, the income disparities among provinces show little sign of decreasing. There is a saying "The rich get richer and the poor get poorer." Even per capita the situation is the same. Higher unemployment, lower and more unstable income and fewer opportunities are the characteristics of regional disparities in Canada. Forced migration-"going down the road" as the Maritimers call it- is the result. This is not to suggest that anybody should be prevented from migrating in search of his or her destiny, but the outward migration of people from certain regions has been obvious and continuous. Most of the migration from the Atlantic and the Prairie region has been the "golden horse shoe" and BC. There are other manifestations of regionalism in Canada. In the Altantic provinces, the lower incomes are aggravated by a higher cost of living except in housing. If one uses as measures of social welfare, the number of telephones, infant mortality, proverty, number of doctors per hundred thousand inhabitants, education expenditure or almast any of the other indicators, the pictur
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