Canadians Feel Poor Responsible

Miscellaneous Current Events
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49 per cent of Canadians say if poor people really want to work, they can always find a job.

43 per cent agree that “a good work ethic is all you need you to escape poverty.”

41 per cent say that if we gave poor people more assistance, they would “take advantage.”

28 per cent believe people living in poverty “usually have lower moral values.”

23 per cent believe people are poor because they’re lazy.

37 per cent agree that people living in poverty in Canada “still have it pretty good.”

24 per cent say they don’t really see many people in Canada who are “truly poor.”

18 per cent say poverty is a problem we can’t really do much about.

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But at the same time, “89 per cent of Canadians agree that people in poverty deserve a helping hand”.

Let me see, this means that between 38 and 49 per cent of Canadians think that people who do not want to work deserve a helping hand. Either that, or Canadian government inflated a unit to contain much more than 100 per cent.

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To speak in broader tems, this survey shows that between 38 to 49 per cent of Canadians have major cognitive dissonance issues. Canada is a strange place. I wonder how different those numbers will be two years from now.