The fiscal capacity gap between “have” and "have-not" provinces has shrunk from 27 per cent to 6 per cent.
equalization program
Août 25, 2020
1:00AM
Novembre 5, 2019
9:29AM
The equalization program will cost nearly $20 billion this year.
Décembre 20, 2018
10:02AM
Alberta ran a $3.1 billion deficit in 2012/13—when oil prices were over US$80 per barrel.
Octobre 15, 2018
10:42AM
Quebec has received equalization every year since the program’s inception in 1957.
Juin 26, 2018
7:25AM
Successive governments have increased spending faster than the rate of economic growth or inflation-plus-population.
Juin 21, 2018
10:19AM
Equalization makes for a handy scapegoat, but successive Alberta governments have no one to blame but themselves for the province’s fiscal problems.