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Originally Posted by octothorp
I think the transfer system is necessarily, but extremely inefficient the way it currently is designed. I'd like to see something where provinces can opt out of the federal transfer system and make payments directly to other provinces.
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Novel idea, but the provinces can't even get interprovincial trade barriers lower than international trade barriers. We are notoriously bad at co-operation.
Besides, right now we pay 70% or so of our taxes to Ottawa for sharing. No way Albertans would voluntarily make that payment.