A Different Ontario

Incomes in Quebec, the province with the next slowest income growth, still grew at more than twice the rate as in Ontario (8.9 per cent); in the western provinces, incomes grew at between three and six times the rate as in Ontario. [...] The story the 2016 census tells is not simply one of the impact of the last recession, but more specifically that of how the last recession, and the changing nature of the economy more generally, have affected Ontarians from different backgrounds. [...] In the case of women, employment census tells is not income grew in all but one CMA (Windsor), while simply one of the after-tax income grew in each CMA, with increases in impact of the last real terms ranging between 6.8 and 22.4 per cent. [...] The median incomes of younger men (age 25 to 34) fell the sharpest in real terms between 2005 and 2015 – in the case of employment income, the drop was 7.5 per cent. [...] According to the 2016 census, immigrants who arrived between 2011 and 2014 earned 62 per cent of the median 7. |. THE MOWAT CENTRE employment earnings of non-immigrants; this is slightly higher than the 59.9 per cent figure that applies to immigrants arriving in between 2001 and 2004, as reported in the 2006 census.4 The category of “visible minority” is also one that encapsulates the experiences