William Watson: Uh-oh Trudeau. Turns out Canadians value freedom more than being middle class. fpcomment
On a scale of 1 to 10, which is more important to the Canadian dream: being a member of the middle class? Or being free to say or do what you want?
On the other hand, freedom to say or do what you want can be thought of as the conservative vision of Canada, maybe even the Conservative vision of Canada, since most Conservatives at least pay lip service to freedom, except where supply management is concerned. Another shocker: when Americans were asked the same questions they actually put slightly more weight than we did on being middle class and slightly less on freedom. Canadians more freedom-loving than Americans! this fall.
What interests Corak, Connolly and Haeck is “intergenerational income mobility,” which is defined as how closely related your income is to what your parents’ income was when you were growing up. If the correlation is high — perfect correlation being 1 on a scale of 0 to 1 — then there’s not much intergenerational mobility. If your parents had high income, you have high income.
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