"Income inequality is rising"

Not in Canada in the past 17 years or so it isn't.

In Canada there was a large increase in income inequality that occurred from about 1995 to 2000.  After that it largely plateaued, increasing very slightly to a peak in about 2005 or 2006 before declining slightly over the past decade.

The myth that income inequality is currently increasing in Canada is based on one of two things:
- Taking two data points and incorrectly assuming a straight-line (ie, 1990 vs. 2015)
- Using U.S. data and assuming Canadian data might match