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Originally Posted by MolsonExport
What about payments for raising and educating citizens on another province's dime?
Many Canadian provinces have been exporting their young to the oil patch, and expensive, older/retired folk are left behind. Human resources are even more important than natural resources, and here, the Eastern provinces "give" much more than they "get".
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Exactly. It's impossible to have both 1) Freedom of mobility + 2) Subsidized education and healthcare, without an automatic 3) Equalization payments.
Removing 1 is impossible (people will manage to change provinces if they really want to, there are ways to cross even the best Berlin Walls), so the only realistic option is to remove 2.
With your Atlantic Canada parents having paid the full cost of bringing you from cradle to able-to-work-the-oilpatch adult, you'd be free to move, and upon retirement you could also move to wherever you want, knowing you'll be the only one paying with your own $$$ for the entire costs of whatever you'll need for the rest of your life, including any and all healthcare.
In such a system, there would be no need for equalization anymore