As a share of the province’s total government revenue, New Brunswick’s equalization payments fell from 23.7 per cent to 19 per cent.
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August 25, 2020
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June 18, 2020
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The fiscal capacity gap between “have” and "have-not" provinces has shrunk from 27 per cent to 6 per cent.
November 5, 2019
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The equalization program will cost nearly $20 billion this year.
December 20, 2018
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Alberta ran a $3.1 billion deficit in 2012/13—when oil prices were over US$80 per barrel.
October 15, 2018
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Quebec has received equalization every year since the program’s inception in 1957.
June 26, 2018
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Successive governments have increased spending faster than the rate of economic growth or inflation-plus-population.