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Cash cow for the rest of Canada

Friday, February 25th, 2011

Feb 25 2011
The people of Ontario have become cash cows for other regions… Ontarians have the least accessible provincial programming in Canada… The province’s growth rate has been declining since equalization was put in place 50 years ago… there is evidence of chronic underinvestment in Ontario’s colleges, universities and mass transit systems, all of which are vital underpinnings of economic health… provincial policies have contributed to these problems. There is little doubt, also, that the huge difference between what the federal government puts into Ontario and what it takes out (about $25 billion in a typical year) is a key contributor…

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Inequalities of equalization leave Ontarians worse off

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Mar 01 2010
A paper by the Winnipeg-based Frontier Centre for Public Policy conclusively demonstrates that public services in the provinces that fund equalization, including Ontario, the largest contributor, are inferior to those available in recipient provinces.
This is shocking, considering that equalization was established in 1957 to help the so-called “have-not” provinces provide the same levels of public services to their citizens as the wealthier “have” provinces, without having to resort to punitive levels of taxation.

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