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So, remind me again why we want Quebec to stay in Canada?

The Coalition Avenir Quebec has promised more doctors. Meanwhile, Parti Quebecois Leader Pauline Marois says that if her party is elected, tuition in Quebec will be free. She also wants 15,000 more daycare spaces.
The Liberal party under Premier Jean Charest says it will create a $1-billion fund so Quebec’s governments can make “strategic investments” in business (a.k.a., more corporate welfare). Also, Charest pledges to subsidize wages of Quebec workers older than age 55.

From 2005/06 (as far back as publicly available Finance department data goes) up to the present year, Quebec has received $56.7 billion, or 54 per cent of the $107.4 billion the federal government spent on equalization.

Quebec’s undergraduate tuition rates were just $2,519 this past year. That was 38 per cent of what an Ontario student paid ($6,640); 44 per cent of the cost to a student in Alberta ($5,662); 45 per cent of what a Saskatchewan student paid ($5,601); and 52 per cent of what a B.C. student shelled out ($4,852).
On physician ratios, in 2010, British Columbia and Alberta had 213 and 211 general physicians respectively per 100,000 people; the numbers for Ontario and Saskatchewan were 189 and 169. Meanwhile, the Quebec ratio was 224 general physicians per 100,000 people.

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