# Americans earn more but Canadian poor better off: StatsCan

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**Created:** [July 28, 2000, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-earn-more-but-canadian-poor-better-off-statscan/27239 "2000-07-28T17:11:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bill\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@Bill\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_H)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2000, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-earn-more-but-canadian-poor-better-off-statscan/27239/41 "2000-08-04T02:54:04Z")

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**matt\_mcl** wrote

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> That would be French, dear. You know, how we have two languages that contribute to our political life, rather than pretending that a third of our population don’t, linguistically speaking, exist?

I’m sorry. I was attempting to be humerous, not particularly successfully.

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**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2000, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-earn-more-but-canadian-poor-better-off-statscan/27239/42 "2000-08-04T13:52:57Z")

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> That would be French, dear. You know, how we have two languages that contribute to our political life, rather than pretending that a third of our population don’t, linguistically speaking, exist?

Yeah, because it’s not like when I got my Virginia driver’s license, I saw people taking the written/video portion of the license test in Spanish and Korean or anything. No, sir.

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