Regional Disparities in Canada

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…regionalism in Canada. In the Altantic provinces, the lower incomes are aggravated by a higher cost of living except in housing. If one uses as measures of social welfare, the number of telephones, infant mortality, proverty, number of doctors per hundred thousand inhabitants, education expenditure or almast any of the other indicators, the picture is again one of persistent disparities, with the Atlantic region trailing on almost all counts and Ontario just as consistently leading.