Equalization

Well, Danny Williams and Gilles Duceppe are both back to doing what they do best - bitching about their lack of handouts from the Canadian Government. It's funny how Gilles always whines about how the Conservative's don't care about Quebec and are constantly trying to screw them....but did you know that equalization payments to Quebec have risen 74% since the Conservatives came to power in 2006?

Some other interesting facts about the handouts Quebec gets already:

-$8.3-billion of the $14.2-billion pot of equalization money next year
-PLUS $5.7-billion in health transfers
-PLUS $2.5-billion in social transfers

So Quebec will be receiving somewhere in the neighborhood of $16.5 billion.......but they don't want to be Canadian anyway.

In contrast, Alberta actually has to PAY to be Canadian.......we send money to Ottawa, which is redistributed to the "have-not" provinces (such as Quebec and, as of this year, Ontario).

(Info on this blog at the National Post).