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Originally Posted by calf

Transfer payments are determined Federally, and come from Federal taxes, not provincial. It would be impossible for a future premier to make this happen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadi...nsfer_payments

I don't see where it says that it' comes from Federal taxes. Specifically, the article says this:

The fiscal capacity of the provinces is determined by measuring their revenue from five general sources. Those revenue categories are:

Personal income taxes
Business income taxes
Consumption taxes
Up to 50 percent of natural resource revenue (see below)
Property taxes and miscellaneous

So Federal taxes, CPP/EI and all other Federal revenues are not included in this calculation as that is collected by the Feds anyway, the province has nothing to do with this activity.