$11.8 billion

Estimated federal government spending cuts by 2014-15, due to the last three austerity budgets. (Source - Numbers in that blog are drawn from the Federal Budget 2013, pg. 298)

90,000

Estimated job losses in both the public and private sector by 2014-15, as a result of a succession of federal government austerity budget decisions. (Source)

3.2 per cent

0

Agreement among economists on what constitutes Canada's middle class. It varies based on whether you look at family or individual income, provincial or national data, before or after tax. Here we look at median and total family income to get a sense of the range.

$69,860

The median total income for all Canadian families. That's the dead centre of all family total income earned in Canada in 2010, meaning half earned more than $69,860 and half earned less. (Source)

$60,000 - $85,000

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150,000+

Number of Aboriginal children who were taken from their families and forced into residential schools as part of Canada’s assimilation policy from the 1870s onward. In 2008, the government apologized to Aboriginal peoples “for failing them so profoundly.” (Source and source) 

70 cents