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Originally Posted by Gondi Stylez

Equalization is an incredibly nuanced topic, but these two op-eds do a good job of explaining at a high level what the deal currently is (structured by Harper and Kenny) and what the ramifications of renegotiating it (let alone abolishing it, like the ballot question is asking) will have.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6201822

https://thehub.ca/2021-06-15/trevor-...confederation/

EDIT - no idea how to embed links!

The first article suggests this is a risk of attempting to remove equalization: "The deal allowed provinces with natural resource endowments to keep those revenues and use them to run their own affairs." That the Feds might take natural resources revenues.

I dont think that's likely, because I'm pretty confident that if they did so Alberta would separate. It would just be too egregious a change to the deal of Federation.