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Jul 7, 2026
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What Canadians get wrong about equalization
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What Canadians get wrong about equalization
EDITORIAL
7 JULY 2026
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The interesting questions about equalization concern its design incentives—and a formula Parliament has left untouched since 2009
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Most of the gap between what Albertans send to Ottawa and what flows back—73 percent of it—has a mundane explanation: Alberta is richer, younger, and more economically dynamic than the rest of Canada. Higher incomes mean higher federal taxes paid, and closing that gap entirely would require making Albertans poorer.
Jared Wesley, Ken Boessenkool, Trevor Tombe,…
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