Yes rich is relative - so how are we doing compared to our neighbors to the south. 
Canada 2014 1% Average income $466,700 before tax
US 2014 1% Average income $1,260,000 USD or about $1.6 million cdn before tax. BTW they have lower taxes as well.

OH that's not so good.

Worse  if you consider our medium is about $313,000 - the majority of the Canadian 1% do not make it in the US 1%. 

Canada has less income inequality, greater social mobility and superior healthcare for the poor than the US. Lets be proud of those facts and stop pretending we have the same problems as the US cause we don't. Lets stop implementing policies that will wreck that because those on the political left have something to whine about.