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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Or you can argue that Alberta earned the money by being willing to exploit the reserve, whereas you can argue that Quebec has not done a good job in exploiting the natural resources in that province. ie Quebec natural gas.
Its not free money if you work hard to earn it.
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The formula for calculating tge fiscal capacity of the provinces only considers half of a province's natural resource revenues. Therefore, there is no incentive to purposely not develop or exploit nstural resources. It would only leave Quebec with less revenue.
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