According to forecasts, overpayments will account for 35 per cent of the program’s cost in 2025/26.
equalization payment
December 8, 2020
4:03PM
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.
June 23, 2020
8:37PM
Canada's equalization program cost Alberta taxpayers approximately $3.1 billion in 2017.
November 5, 2019
9:29AM
The equalization program will cost nearly $20 billion this year.
January 10, 2018
10:59AM
The federal government will send $21.1 billion to Ontario this year.
July 21, 2014
6:00AM
We’ve seen this script before. Higher spending. Tax increases. Persistent deficits. Growing debt. Warnings from credit rating agencies. A government unwilling to make the tough choices to turn things around.
July 19, 2014
6:00AM
The other day former Ontario Premier Bob Rae, fumed at a column by economist Jack Mintz who noted the similarities between the current Kathleen Wynne government and Rae’s reign as premier of Ontario, specifically the “high deficits, debt and taxes.”
