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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
One year in the history of the country does not mean that "Alberta supports Ontario". In fact, there were several years before the oil boom that Alberta was a "have not" province and received payments from Ontario. I wonder if people in Ontario used to hang that over Alberta's head back in the day, like how some in Alberta like to do now over other provinces?
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Umm ... ya, that's what I said.
"However, this is the first time that has happened and I doubt it will last, so in reality it's not correct to state that."
As for Alberta receiving equalization payments, yes, it certainly did. But if my memory serves correct they haven't since the 1950s or 1960s. Certainly Alberta received a lot of federal aid during the 1930s, but that wasn't part of the equalization program, which only started in 1957. Maybe they received equalization payments during the 1980s, but I don't recall that being the case and I couldn't find anything online to verify that.