The equalization program will cost nearly $20 billion this year.
equalization program
December 20, 2018
10:02AM
Alberta ran a $3.1 billion deficit in 2012/13—when oil prices were over US$80 per barrel.
October 15, 2018
10:42AM
Quebec has received equalization every year since the program’s inception in 1957.
June 26, 2018
7:25AM
Successive governments have increased spending faster than the rate of economic growth or inflation-plus-population.
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.