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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. ...
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Ottawa should make equalization more fair and shrink payments
Albertans will likely vote on equalization in October. ...
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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. ...
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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 ...