Successive governments have increased spending faster than the rate of economic growth or inflation-plus-population.
equalization program
June 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.
August 22, 2017
9:33AM
The gap between richer and poorer provinces has been shrinking.
January 21, 2016
12:23PM
Ontario and Quebec now receive approximately 70 per cent of all equalization payments.
December 15, 2014
11:00AM
New Brunswick Premier Brian Gallant, seems poised to follow through on a campaign promise to institute a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing.
