• Aboriginal Canadians
• Francophones
• people entering the corrections system
• people who experienced one or more major roadblocks in their education when they were
• children or young adults, like being the victim of
  • neglect
  • abuse
  • poverty
  • poor nutrition
  • racial discrimination

More facts about low literacy in Canada

• Men are more likely to have low literacy skills than women.
• Some children had learning disabilities or social problems when they were in school, and never became good readers.
• Many people don’t read regularly. They get their news from television and radio. They don’t read for enjoyment either – they get their entertainment from the Internet, TV, movies, and concerts. Gradually, they lose their reading skills.
• Many senior citizens have only elementary school education, and their reading skills were never up to today’s standard. Others have stopped reading and let their skills decline.
• Some immigrants may be literate in their first language are still learning English or French. Others are not literate in their first language, and find it difficult to learn how to read in a second language. Even those immigrants whose first language is English or French have lower literacy than those people born in Canada.

Low literacy in Canada is a personal, family, community, and societal problem. And low literacy is a law enforcement problem.