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Old 02-22-2016, 08:04 PM   #1601
Bend it like Bourgeois
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He specifically refers to business so maybe it's correct, but otherwise the general contribution of Alberta is trumped by Ontario and is smaller than Quebec. Slightly ahead of the "socialist" BC...

Or is this just hogwash?

http://thoughtundermined.com/2012/07...s-by-province/
Doesn't that article say near enough the same thing?

In 2009 - the only year they looked at - the net was 16B more out of AB than came back in.

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This table clearly shows that, in 2009 at least, Alberta was the only province in which the revenues collected by the federal government were greater than its expenditures
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