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This is StatCan's explanation of the number you're referring to: .
While people somewhat loosely use that number for home owners I believe it a highly inaccurate phrasing of the statistic. The statistic is owner-occupied homes.
And they're the people who keep advocating for these governments. For the record I don't think you can find me ever saying that homeowners or even landlords are bad people just because of those characteristic, however it's clear our interests do not align.
The fair portion is what's up for dispute right now.
Am I reading this right in that it’s a percentage of homes (dwellings) occupied by the owner compared to the percentage of people that own their home? Like if you have a family of 4 in a house and they rent out a (legal) basement suite to two individual renters, is that counted as one owner-occupied dwelling out of two dwellings on the property; (50% homeowner occupied or 100% homeowner occupied. Compared again to say having 6 people, of which one or two(is that family of 4 a couple or single parent) are homeowners.
Yes, the number is 66.5% of households in 2021 is occupied by the owner. Any phrasing regarding people is a loose interpretation of the statistic.
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/220921/mc-b001-eng.htm
The "total number of owners" link goes here. I'm not really sure how to read what come up, though. I actually wonder if the site was bugging out.
Here's the actual exchange. Not to give them traffic, but maybe like me you want to click through to something else.
According to other people in that thread, it goes down to 30% or 40% if you don't include people who just live together with a homeowner. Honestly that doesn't change the story much for the purpose of OP, IMO.
I don't think there's many scenarios where 66.5% to 30-40% isn't a substantial difference.
Sure there is. Off the top of my head: how much you were speeding as it effects likelihood of being pulled over, salt content in your drinking water, and median daily percentage of necessary daily calories over the course of a year.
In this case, that's a substantial but not overwhelming share of the population with 90% of the wealth either way. To me personally, that seems the same. You can have a different impression and not be wrong, I guess.