When is enough enough ???

[furrowtickler]

[sumdumguy]

What is the reason that Quebec is getting so much?

[AlbertaFarmer5]

What is the reason that Quebec is getting so much?

The power of their votes.

[Ache4Acres]

Brutal --

Because we get so much in return I guess

[oneoff]

Because we are nether respected nor listened to

[farmaholic]

How much did Sask receive for decades before they had to start paying?

But it does seem ironic a province of 1.1 million people has to pay for the welfare of provinces that are much larger.

[stonepicker]

It's interesting to see that at one time sk. and mb. were both have not provinces, and now it's mb. which is still a have not prov. , hopefully we can pull ourselves out of the mud also.

[Oliver88]

Equalization seems to be a policy to reward bad economic policies and transfer $ from west to east.

Quebec will receive $ with their lucrative social programs and anti-resource development/business policies.

[GDR]

I think I heard that the payments are based on a formula over 3 years or something. I bet the formula gets changed before the resource provinces get a chance to see dollars flow the other direction. Anybody know how those numbers compare to previous years?

[burnt]

Interesting to note that Manitoba (1.282 million pop.) requires 30% more than Ontario (13.6 million pop.), having 10% of the population. More total dollars, over 10x more per capita, ON, 107/hd vs. MB, 1384/hd.