Reading Time: 4 minutes We are weeks away from a systemic collapse of large parts of the energy industry in Canada. We need to act quickly and decisively
Tag: Equalization
Equalization hurts every Canadian
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s time to get past political posturing and regional protectionism and reform the national equalization payment program
Alberta can’t blame the equalization system for its economic mess
Reading Time: 3 minutes Undisciplined spending by successive governments is responsible for Alberta’s fiscal problems
Alberta still loses if resource revenue removed from equalization
Reading Time: 3 minutes Options for reform are severely limited so long as a rule requiring program costs to escalate every year remains
Should equalization really grow forever?
Reading Time: 3 minutes A rule requiring payments to grow – no matter what the circumstances – can only exacerbate regional friction
Sharing the wealth is the Canadian – and Albertan – way
Reading Time: 3 minutes Wildrose’s attack on equalization payments is based on a skewed view of the program and a lack of respect for the true Alberta perspective
Robertson, Coderre charter members of Misguided Mayors Club
Reading Time: 3 minutes Vancouver’s Robertson and Montreal’s Coderre are front and centre when it comes to policy pronouncements that are dangerously delusional
Trudeau is out of touch with Canada’s economic reality
Reading Time: 4 minutes Blissfully unaware of the devastating impact of collapsed resource revenues on the entire nation
Federal transfers to the provinces at an all-time high
Reading Time: 3 minutes The complaint from some provinces that Ottawa is shortchanging them is false
The feds doesn’t owe Ontario – or Alberta – more money
Reading Time: 3 minutes Premiers will invent any excuses – including blaming it all on the federal government – to cover their own failures