1 and 6 Canadians live in poverty

[Sportsdude]

A State of constand dread- Poverty Today

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 1 and 6 Canadians are in poverty thats 5 million people.  1 million of them are children.  

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[49er]

the population of Canada is only 30 million?

[Sportsdude]

Yup its around around 32.5 million right now.  Basically the same population of California

Another 'fun fact' is that there are about as many people in prison in the US (2.1 million) as there are people in the Lower Mainland (Vancouver Metro) (2.2 million)

[Russ]

Didnt know that SD, interesting.

  Ive always put it in perspective by canada is one tenth the population of the US.

[Sportsdude]

Yup thats right Russ good way of putting things in perspective.  300 million to 32.5 million.