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Originally Posted by zamler
Since 1960, Alberta has received more money than it paid out once, in 2020. Of note, Alberta has by far the highest GDP per capita of any province. Quebec has received in total 220 billion directly from Alberta.
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How did you account for the cost of birthing and educating the people who emigrated from the ROC to Alberta to work and produce Royalties and Taxes for the province? Is it simply the yearly cost of Ed and health care or do you need to account for the demographic damage done.
Do you also account for when we purchase from Ontario and Quebec manufacturing that their lower cost base relative to the US benefits us?
What about pipelines / rail that go through other provinces? Did you account for some sort royalty structure of reasonless tarrifs for access?
It’s easy to come up with a dollar figure of the net out lay. It’s much harder to assign value to the benefits. So how do you propose you assign cash flows to these things?
That aside I got a text from the guy who wrote the current equalization formula telling me to vote UCP so this discussion really is an issue going back to Harper who was let off the hook by Alberta and Sask.