The two biggest automatic stabilizers from Ottawa are income taxes and employment insurance payments.
equalization payments
June 26, 2018
7:25AM
Successive governments have increased spending faster than the rate of economic growth or inflation-plus-population.
January 10, 2018
10:59AM
The federal government will send $21.1 billion to Ontario this year.
August 22, 2017
9:33AM
The gap between richer and poorer provinces has been shrinking.
February 22, 2017
2:26PM
Since the recession, Queen’s Park has failed to take meaningful action to reform and reduce program spending.
January 21, 2016
12:23PM
Ontario and Quebec now receive approximately 70 per cent of all equalization payments.
June 5, 2015
9:00AM
The Ontario government has never made a secret of its desire to have the federal government help fund Ontario’s provincial budget. It even started its own think-tank with $5 million in 2009, which regularly publishes reports that call on the federal government to rescue Ontario’s provincial finances.
July 12, 2014
6:00AM
Discussing equalization and other federal transfer payments in summer is about as much fun as a root canal in any season. Nevertheless, Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa complained recently that the federal government underfunds Ontario.