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Unfortunately, you're simply not correct. The fraction of income received by the top 1% of Canadians did not decrease from 2012 to 2013, nor did it decrease from 2010 to 2011.

Source: Statistics Canada http://www5.statcan.gc.ca/cansim/a26?lang=eng&retrLang=eng&i...

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Rounding.

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Those numbers are rounded to one decimal place. Given the trendline, it's far more likely that the actual numbers were 10.63, 10.58, 10.34, 10.26 rather than 10.6, 10.6, 10.3, 10.3.

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