Equalization

Anne Webb for copy editing and Doug Smith for layout and design of the paper; and to John Jacobs, Director of the Nova Scotia office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, and Wayne Antony, Acting Director of the Manitoba office of the CanadianCentre for Policy Alternatives. [...] The formula determines the average revenue-raising capacity for Canadian The five-province standard is part of the problem provinces on a per capita basis, then determines from the perspective of the relatively have-not the revenue-raising capacity of a given province, provinces like Manitoba. [...] This is done by: (1) and spirits for Manitoba, using the determining the total tax base for all national average rate of tax, is provinces for a revenue source (for compared to the average per capita example, the alcoholic beverage tax yield, using the national average rate base is the total volume of beer, wine of tax, for the five “representative” and spirits sold in a province, so the provinces [...] The same calculation payable to a province is equivalent is done for each of the revenue to the sum of the deficiencies and/ sources in the formula. [...] Together, equalization and the development of manufacturing in Ontario and CHST comprise almost 80 percent of the dollar relied on the prairie provinces to produce grains value of all transfers from the federal to provincial as an export staple), and natural and historical governments, and just over 20 percent of total accidents (such as the location of vast oil and federal program spending (Beale