Quebec tables fifth straight balanced budget with leftover billions from Liberals

[furrowtickler]

You do know that Quebec is the home of Canadian corruption right ? You miss the news lately chuck ??
A lot of unreported income
Ohh ya and why do you think the Hells Angels call Quebec home .
How many people from Quebec are listed in the Panama Papers ?
All those off shore trust accounts ...
Hydro Quebec..... yup exempted.

[chuckChuck]

There are no Hells Angels or organized crime in other provinces? Huh?

Only Quebecers are listed in the Pananma papers and rich Albertans don't have offshore accounts? haha.

Corruption only occurs in Quebec? LOL

The recent news suggests otherwise:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/happy-mann-kamikaze-campaign-1.5061407

"A former Alberta United Conservative Party nomination race candidate who said he collaborated on a "kamikaze" campaign to tank Brian Jean and ensure Jason Kenney's success in the party's 2017 leadership race is calling for a judicial inquiry into the situation.

Hardyal Singh (Happy) Mann says he attended a meeting at Jeff Callaway's house on July 19, 2017, along with Kenney and other party insiders, where it was decided Callaway would join the UCP leadership race to run a campaign aimed at discrediting Jean, before dropping out of the race to endorse Kenney."

[furrowtickler]

Quebec.... A socialist province within a democratic nation . Your Numbers show it.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Well, that is good news for you, Chuck, that means that you won't even miss us after we separate. You can continue to fund all of your Socialist wet dreams without Alberta's miniscule contribution.

Much ado about nothing after all.

[jazz]

Anyone claiming equalization is fair and just should have a padded room made up right away. basically Ottawa uses Ab to pay Quebec to stay in the country. Got nothing to do with incomes or wealth.

Tell us about Quebec daycare funding? Why are all the immigrants landing in Quebec? Because of the generous social programs, Alberta is paying for Quebec to stay in the country and paying for new immigrants to get on the govt tit and then vote liberal. Its totally stacked against the west and it will lead to the fracture of the country if it continues. We will see how unique Quebec culture is once it has to stand on its own feet.

[chuckChuck]

Alberta still has the highest GDP and Incomes per capita in the country. That is why they pay more federal tax. Federal taxes are applied equally across the country.

Alberta has had the opportunity to put away billions of dollars in a Heritage Fund like Alaska and Norway but have chosen not to.

Instead they have used resource revenue to fund government programs.

Albertans have chosen on their own, how they want to finance their provincial budgets.

Alberta and Saskatchewan politicians love to complain about equalization but when a Conservative Prime Minister from Alberta was in power he didn't really change the program.

So the title of this post is misleading. Several Provinces including Manitoba and the maritimes provinces except Newfoundland benefit from equalization. But all the complaining is about Quebec? At one time Saskatchewan received equalization payments as well.

[westernvicki]

Dear Chuck

Oh my Chuck, all too predictable and oh so typical of some to rely on the blame game, surely it is Harper's fault. However a rapidly expanding economy must reinvest, and this takes money. Been in Alberta in the last 10 years you can see the costs of infrastructure growth at every turn. And yes, indeed times do change, rapidly in fact. Parking lots lined with oil equipment parked all over. Yet, Trudeau blatantly ignored calls for renegotiation.


Voters in Quebec are happy.

All is well in eastern Canada. In the west we have to hope the one Liberal seat will shine when we need him. And we need him.

Vicki

[westernvicki]

https://crdcn.org/evaluation-underground-economy-quebec-a-microeconomic-approach