[the.tru.albertan]

my personal opinion on the Equalization program is....

I don't like it. lol.

But really, I pay income taxes to the Feds, of which some goes into Equalization, which is then spent in the HRM... or Quebec City. So here I am, inputting my time and energy into the Alberta GDP, being taxed on that time, and then the taxes aren't even spent in my local area, my province, not even Western Canada.

It would actually be an easier pill to swallow if the province gave oil revenues into equalization and the Feds leave my taxes alone, allocated back to the province of Alberta in transfers to be spent here.