The federal and taxation system is different in Canuckistan from what we know and care about in the States but I understand that’s a big part of it. Of huge Provincial concern is the amount of money they pay to Ottawa versus what they receive back in Federal funding. The Prairie and Western provinces seem to send a lot eastward that they don’t get back to the west (lot’s of money spent on pacifying Quebec) and that imbalance screws with their finances. So many Federal Canadian programs (Medicare, or Canadian “socialist medicine”) dependent upon provincial returns to support.
Albert has been the Texas/Colorado to think of it in U.S. terms. Saskatchewan after them.....they are like a Nebraska/Iowa. B.C. is California and Washington state all rolled into one. Manitoba is Minnesota and Wisconsin. Ontario is like Ohio and Pennsylvania. Quebec is, well, like Mexico. The Atlantics are just an assortment of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and Rhode Island. Small population and small power to effect national politics.
>The federal and taxation system is different in Canuckistan from what we know and care about in the States but I understand that’s a big part of it. Of huge Provincial concern is the amount of money they pay to Ottawa versus what they receive back in Federal funding. The Prairie and Western provinces seem to send a lot eastward that they don’t get back to the west (lot’s of money spent on pacifying Quebec) and that imbalance screws with their finances. So many Federal Canadian programs (Medicare, or Canadian “socialist medicine”) dependent upon provincial returns to support.<
Correct. It’s called “Equalization payments”. The provinces pay to Ottawa a sort of...mafia payment and they are supposed to get something back in return.
But here’s the funny part that no American realizes and what really binds canada as a nation. The equalization payment’ is actually shakedown money or bribe money from the Feds (Ottawa) as a “tribute” to Quebec so they will not secede.
Have you ever noticed why French and English are 2 languages you first see when you enter canada but our parliament and money (the Queen of England) are British-based? There ya have it..