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1. Alberta’s upcoming referendum bigger than equalization

   Reforms in the 1990s led to a marked decline in welfare dependency and reduced spending on social assistance. ...

2. Pressure mounts to change ‘stabilization’ program and increase payments to Alberta

   Alberta received just $249 million in payments despite a revenue loss of $7.2 billion. ...

3. Equalization is broken and needs fixing now

   Appeared in the National Post, June 18, 2020 While the full extent of the damage is not yet known, the economic consequences of the COVID recession have been severe. Millions are now unemployed and countless businesses have been shuttered, some forever. ...

4. Equalization and Stabilization Post-Recession: Is Canada Ready?

   Is Canada’s existing system of federal transfers designed to respond adequately to economic volatility across the country and more precisely to rapid changes in relative income levels across provinces? The purpose of this paper is to investigate this ...

5. Why Is Equalization Still Growing?

   Equalization is a federal government program that aims to provide all Canadians with access to comparable public services at comparable levels of taxation. To do this, it transfers federal tax dollars collected from taxpayers across the country directly ...