Quebec tables fifth straight balanced budget with leftover billions from Liberals

[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