đ§” Ajaxâs own MPP decided to take a non-essential trip outside of the country while our town moved from Red to Lockdown.
I donât even know where to start on this. Rules for me and not for thee? Financial privilege in action? Getting away from the âplebsâ in Ajax? #onpoli 1/x
#BREAKING; NEWSTALK 1010 has learned Ontario Finance Minister, Rod Philips, travelled outside of the country for a personal vacation despite @fordnation repeated pleas to stay home over the holidays. Minister Philips has released the following statement #onpoli pic.twitter.com/DlaOc1MZTq
— NEWSTALK1010 (@NEWSTALK1010) December 29, 2020

Yet you decided to leave Canada for a non-essential vacation during a global pandemic. #onpoli 6/x

Not flying around the world. #onpoli 8/x
Yes, all of it.
Ajax needs to take note of what their MPP did at the peak of the second wave of a deadly pandemic.
Leaders set priorities. Leaders get things done. @RodPhillips01 is not a leader. #onpoli 10/10 đ§”
11/10 #onpoli https://t.co/ZAQ65eodTk
If Phillips left the country on Dec. 8...
— James Wattie (@jameswattie) December 29, 2020
Why is he pictured here 7 days later clearly not self-quarantining? https://t.co/bWUE7cuazB
12/10 #onpoli https://t.co/3HHMC7OUv2
Last weekend I stopped by @InspiredRO & Rossland Pharmasave to drop off some holiday treats to show our support for these amazing #Ajax businesses. Thank you for serving our community this year! pic.twitter.com/tUUOuFv8fW
— Rod Phillips (@RodPhillips01) December 18, 2020
Business owners are struggling because of #COVID19. I\u2019m glad I had the opportunity to check in with some of our local #Ajax businesses earlier this month to see how they are doing. Support is available. Please visit https://t.co/PsF17dNegX for details. pic.twitter.com/hvPKo372Wa
— Rod Phillips (@RodPhillips01) December 24, 2020
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This New York Times feature shows China with a Gini Index of less than 30, which would make it more equal than Canada, France, or the Netherlands. https://t.co/g3Sv6DZTDE
That's weird. Income inequality in China is legendary.
Let's check this number.
2/The New York Times cites the World Bank's recent report, "Fair Progress? Economic Mobility across Generations Around the World".
The report is available here:
3/The World Bank report has a graph in which it appears to show the same value for China's Gini - under 0.3.
The graph cites the World Development Indicators as its source for the income inequality data.

4/The World Development Indicators are available at the World Bank's website.
Here's the Gini index: https://t.co/MvylQzpX6A
It looks as if the latest estimate for China's Gini is 42.2.
That estimate is from 2012.
5/A Gini of 42.2 would put China in the same neighborhood as the U.S., whose Gini was estimated at 41 in 2013.
I can't find the <30 number anywhere. The only other estimate in the tables for China is from 2008, when it was estimated at 42.8.