NEW - Upper K, Lower K, and the Middle That Is Disappearing: Tony Chapman on Canada's Two Economies

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift · May 7, 2026 · 10m

K economy Canada is not a prediction. Tony Chapman says it is the current state, and the middle is disappearing faster than most people are willing to acknowledge.

The K is the shape of it: upper bar thriving, lower bar surviving, the centre pulling apart. Tony Chapman puts numbers behind it: twenty percent of Canadians control sixty-seven percent of the country's wealth, and within that top twenty, the top one percent holds most of it. A recent study he references puts forty percent of Canadians within $250 of insolvency. The same country, two entirely different financial realities on the…