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Originally Posted by MarchHare
Measured per capita, Quebec has never been the largest recipient of Equalization dollars. In most years, they actually receive the least or second-least per capita. Since the program's inception, Newfoundland (until the past few years), Nova Scotia, PEI, New Brunswick, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan (also until recently) all regularly received more per capita than Quebec. BC has been up and down, receiving more in some years and less in others.
Source: http://thoughtundermined.com/2012/04...isconceptions/ |
Well that's precisely what I was saying, I just gave the statement a bit of a blur in case some said 'oh yeah, there was this three year period where Quebec blah blah blah...'
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
The biggest carrot that Canada can shake isn't the removal of equalization payments. But the isolation of Quebec in North America if they do separate. Their entry into any trade agreements would be conditional on Canada allowing them in.
Also the mass unemployment caused by the termination of all Quebec Federal Civil Servants.
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Again, exactly the point I was moving towards. Equalization is one of the smallest problems of the Quebec issue. But its the one most Westerners complain about, and I was simply fending off the argument Killer_Carlson was setting up.
The most troubling of the situation is the stagnation of the Canadian economy, and as you said, the hit Quebec's own economy takes with seperation talk.
Thankfully the average Quebecor seems to be figuring this out.
I know equalization payments is thr biggest conservative/west talking point. I was saying I get bored by that as its really just that. A talking point.