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Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor
A bigger say would be nice. Would never happen untill all of NFD, PEI, and NS move to Alberta.
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Well, if you support a bigger say based on the fact that Alberta contributes the most money, do you think that the rich should have a bigger say than the poor? Should the amount of weight a person's vote carries be correlated to how much money they contribute to the economy in taxes? After all, that is an extension of the same principle.
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Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor
It bothers me that Quebec puts it's self into the have not province because of their fiscal policies and social programs. Hell we could all be have not provinces if we all just spent more money than we have. That really ****es me off.
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That's just plain false. Equalization payments are determine based on a provinces capacity to earn revenue. How much a province spends on social policies does not factor into the equation at all. Otherwise, provinces would spend all their money to avoid the payments, as you suggest.
http://www.fin.gc.ca/gloss/gloss-e_e.html#equal
Also, if you're interested, Manitoba, Newfoundland, PEI, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia all receive about double, or in some cases more than, (per capita) what Quebec does in equalization:
http://www.fin.gc.ca/FEDPROV/eqpe.html