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Equalization is the Government of Canada's transfer program for addressing fiscal disparities among provinces. The purpose of the program was entrenched in the Canadian Constitution in 1982:
Dec 18, 2023 · Equalization is the federal government's transfer program for addressing "fiscal disparities among provinces" to provide reasonably comparable levels of public services. Newfoundland and Labrador...
- Introduction
- Equalization: A Brief Primer
- Understanding The Bells and Whistles
- Choose Your Own (Equalization) Adventure
There is perhaps no federal program that raises the ire of provinces as regularly or as fiercely as equalization. From its beginnings over a half century ago, equalization sparks often heated debates about fairness and equality in Confederation. Recent concerns are loudest in Alberta — where a referendum this year on equalization’s place in the con...
Regardless of where you live, we are committed (indeed, constitutionally committed) to ensure everyone has access to “reasonably comparable levels of public services at reasonably comparable levels of taxation.” This is hard to achieve. After all, some provinces have lower incomes, fewer profitable corporations, more retired people, and lower produ...
If all provincial revenues were included, and only the plain-vanilla intuition described above applied, then equalization payments in 2021/22 would total $20.7 billion — slightly less than the $20.9 billion actually paid. Let’s see where those differences come from.
The simulator is flexible enough to explore almost any economic and fiscal scenario you might imagine. You can change the fiscal year, turn features of the program on and off, adjust provincial resource revenues, adjust non-resource fiscal capacities, and even change some (selected) provincial policies — like a sales tax in Alberta or electricity p...
Jun 22, 2018 · Equalization payments are one type of federal transfer given to provinces to help fund public programs and services. These payments aren’t given to all provinces, though. Provinces are divided...
Equalization payments are cash payments made in some federal systems of government from the federal government to subnational governments with the objective of offsetting differences in available revenue or in the cost of providing services.
Sep 22, 2023 · Key Takeaways. Equalization payments are transfer payments made by a government to offset financial differences between different parts of the country. Equalization payments help create...
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Jun 23, 2021 · Is education no longer “a great equalizer of the conditions of men,” as Horace Mann declared in 1848, but instead a great divider? Can the Biden administration’s efforts to distribute cash ...
