The Truth About Canada (51 page)

9.
See
www.healthcoalition.ca.

10.
Toronto Star
, August 15, 2007.

11.
Human Development Report
, 2005. United Nations.

12.
OECD Factbook
, 2006.

13.
The Economist
magazine’s
Pocket World in Figures
, 2007.

14.
January 13, 2007.

15.
Unicef
Innocenti Report Card
7, United Nations, February 2007.

16.
OECD Factbook
, 2004.

17.
The State of the World’s Children
, 2006. United Nations.

18.
Ibid.

19.
OECD Observer
, October 2006.

20.
Health at a Glance
, 2005, OECD.

21.
The State of the World’s Children
, 2006. United Nations.

22.
Health at a Glance
, 2005, OECD.

23.
Ibid.

24.
Ibid.

25.
Canadian Institute for Health Information.

26.
Health at a Glance
, 2005, OECD.

27.
CanWest News Service, July 10, 2007, and the Canadian Centre for Substance Abuse, November 24, 2004.

28.
Health at a Glance
, 2003, OECD

29.
Globe and Mail
, April 19, 2007.

30.
Testimony to the Canadian Senate’s Kirby committee hearings of the Standing Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology.

31.
The most recent comparative figures show that 25 of the 30 OECD countries have a larger number of practising physicians per 100,000 population than Canada.

CHAPTER TWO

1.
Campaign 2000 is a cross-Canada public education movement with 120 national, community, and provincial partners actively involved in its work.

2.
The B.C. child poverty rate is the highest in Canada.

3.
Toronto Star
, January 20, 2006.

4.
Toronto Star
, July 30, 2007.

5.
Hunger Count
2006, Canadian Association of Food Banks.

PART TWO

CHAPTER THREE

1.
Louise Brown,
Toronto Star
, November 24, 2006.

2.
See the work of Howard Sapers, Canada’s prison ombudsman.

3.
Of the about 652,000 aboriginal people age 15 or over, some 61 percent live in Western Canada.

4.
The Daily
, Statistics Canada, June 6, 2006.

5.
Globe and Mail
, March 5, 2007.

6.
The Daily
, Statistics Canada, January 29, 2007.

7.
Globe and Mail
, March 21, 2007.

CHAPTER FOUR

1.
OECD Factbook
, 2007.

2.
For a more detailed look at comparative levels of program spending, see the chapter on government.

3.
Vincent Calderhead,
Toronto Star
, May 25, 2006.

4.
The Social Benefits and Economic Costs of Taxation
, 2007.

CHAPTER FIVE

1.
OECD Database on Full-time/Part-time Employment
, Paris, 2005, and
OECD Factbook
, 2007.

2.
OECD Employment Outlook
, June 2005, and
Annual Labour Force Statistics
, 1984—2004, OECD, 2005.

3.
Globe and Mail
, June 9, 2007.

4.
Canadian Economic Observer
, Historical Statistical Supplement, 2005/06, Statistics Canada.

5.
The Economist
magazine’s
Pocket World in Figures
, 2006.

6.
OECD Economic Outlook
, June 2007.

7.
The Economist
magazine’s
Pocket World in Figures
, 2006.

8.
June 4, 2006.

CHAPTER SIX

1.
Toronto Star
, May 16, 2006.

2.
Society at a Glance
, 2006, OECD.

CHAPTER SEVEN

1.
August 28, 2006.

2.
Toronto Star
, August 23, 2006.

3.
Policy Options
, April/May 2006.

4.
Colin Hughes,
Toronto Star
, November 2, 2006.

5.
Carol Goar,
Toronto Star
, October 11, 2006.

6.
May 9, 2006.

7.
Thomas Walkom,
Toronto Star
, September 9, 2005.

8.
December 15, 2006.

CHAPTER EIGHT

1.
OECD Factbook
, 2006.

2.
Ibid.

3.
OECD Factbook
, 2007.

4.
The Economist
, November 18, 2006.

5.
James Travers,
Toronto Star
, June 8, 2005.

6.
New York Times
, September 28, 2005.

7.
The Daily
, Statistics Canada, January 30, 2007.

8.
The Daily
, Statistics Canada, September 10, 2007.

9.
CanWest News Service, June 18, 2007.

10.
September 27, 2005.

PART THREE

CHAPTER NINE

1.
Toronto Star
, March 18, 2005.

2.
Canadian Economic Observer
, Historical Statistical Supplement, 2005/06, Statistics Canada.

3.
David Crane,
Toronto Star
, February 21, 2004.

4.
Poverty and Policy in Canada
(Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2007).

5.
Toronto Star
, January 12, 2005.

6.
May 26, 2006.

7.
Perspectives on Labour and Income
, Statistics Canada, Winter 2006.

8.
Report on Business
, July/August 2006.

9.
Janet McFarland,
Globe and Mail
, October 28, 2005.

10.
Promotion & Education
, Vol. XIII, No. 4, 2006.

CHAPTER TEN

1.
The Daily
, Statistics Canada, March 20, 2006.

2.
“The Evolution of High Incomes in Northern America: Lessons from Canadian Evidence,”
American Economic Review
, Vol. 95, No. 3, June 2005.

3.
Income Trends in Canada
, 1980–2005, Statistics Canada.

4.
Perspectives on Labour and Income
, Statistics Canada, Spring 2005.

5.
“A Cautionary Note on Relying on Human Capital Policy to Meet Redistribution Goals,”
Canadian Public Policy
, Vol. 33, No. 4, December 2007.

6.
Revisiting Recent Trends in Canadian After-Tax Income Inequality Using Census Data
, 2006.

7.
“Pulling Apart: The Growing Gulfs in Canadian Society,”
Policy Options
, April/May 2006.

8.
Globe and Mail
, January 5, 2006.

9.
Growing Gap, Growing Concerns
.

10.
Toronto Star
, May 7, 2007.

11.
Toronto Star
, March 1, 2007.

CHAPTER ELEVEN

1.
René Morissette and Xuelin Zhang, “Revisiting Wealth Inequality,”
Perspectives
, Statistics Canada, December 2006.

2.
The Wealth of Canadians: An Overview of the Results of the Survey of Financial Security
, 2005. Statistics Canada.

3.
See
The Daily
, Statistics Canada, June 22, 2007.

4.
Globe and Mail
, December, 2006.

CHAPTER TWELVE

1.
Canadian Economic Observer
, Historical Statistical Supplement, 2006/07, Statistics Canada, p. 115.

2.
Report on Business
, July/August 2007.

PART FOUR

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

1.
Report by TD Bank Financial Group chief economist Don Drummond, September 2007.

2.
Toronto Star
, July 16, 2007.

3.
A. Tomas,
Canadian Economic Observer
, Statistics Canada, April 2006.

4.
OECD Economic Outlook
, December 2006.

5.
Globe and Mail
, April 19, 2007.

6.
Maclean’s
, March 19, 2007.

7.
Financial Post
, January 6, 2007.

8.
Allan Tomas,
Recent Trends in Corporate Finance
, Statistics Canada, March 2006.

9.
OECD Factbook
, 2007.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

1.
Human Development Report
, 2005. United Nations.

2.
OECD in Figures
, 2005 supplement.

3.
David Crane,
Toronto Star
, October 22, 2006.

4.
OECD Factbook
, 2007.

5.
Perspectives on Labour and Income
, Statistics Canada, Spring 2007.

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

1.
Globe and Mail
, June 29, 2005.

2.
Ibid.

3.
Canadian Economic Observer
, Statistics Canada, September 2005.

4.
OECD Factbook
, 2007.

5.
The Daily
, Statistics Canada, March 26, 2007.

6.
Globe and Mail
, January 3, 2007.

7.
Rao, Sharpe and Tang, “Productivity Growth in Service Industries: A Canadian Success Story.”
Micro
, Winter/Spring 2005.

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

1.
The Daily
, Statistics Canada, January 5, 2007, and the seasonally adjusted Statistics Canada
Labour Force Survey
.

2.
The Economist
, October 1, 2005.

3.
May 22, 2007.

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

1.
The Daily
, Statistics Canada, February 14, 2007.

2.
The deficit calculation is based on the industry definition, the North American Industrial Classification System.

3.
Jim Stanford,
Canada’s Deteriorating Automotive Trade Performance
, Canadian Auto Workers, October 2007.

4.
Financial Post
, February 15, 2007.

5.
The Daily
, Statistics Canada, May 17, 2007.

6.
National Post
, August 8, 2005.

7.
Globe and Mail
, September 25, 2005.

8.
OECD Factbook
, 2006.

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

1.
OECD Factbook
, 2007.

2.
OECD Economic Outlook
, December 2006.

3.
Maclean’s
, March 19, 2007.

4.
June 1, 2007.

5.
National Post
, July 26, 2007.