Duceppe said Quebec is seeking at least $3.9 billion this year alone to make up for what he says are funding shortfalls.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006/10/22/duceppe.html
Thats all fine and dandy...but if any province is concerned about the fisical imbalance it should be Alberta.
In 2004, the feds collected $25.6 billion gross in personal and corporate income taxes from Albertans -- the largest per-capita haul in Canada.
Alberta receives about $16.3 billion back in federal government services and programs. That means the net contribution Albertans generously share with the ROC comes to $9.3 billion -- or $2,914 per Albertan -- by far the largest per capita transfer payments of any other province. Next in line is Ontario at $1,856 per Ontarian.
Between 1961 and 1997, a net $167 billion dollars left Alberta for Ottawa. Not by coincidence over that same time period, Quebec governments pocketed a net $202 billion dollars. Has this won the hearts and minds of Quebeckers? Hardly. Support for separatism in the 1980 referendum was 40 percent. Fifteen years and hundred billion dollars later, it peaked at 49% in the 1995 referendum. Today it still hovers in the mid forties.
http://www.albertaresidentsleague.com/articles.htm
Maybe they should just be lucky they are getting our money.