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your point of the welfare recipients getting less is precisely why the practice of equalization must end. they are so dependant they have no idea what it is like to live within their taxable means.

of course dalton mc-dud would probably just piss away the money he gets to keep anyway so its not like ontario would be further ahead.

Alberta and Ontario are not flying high anymore, so less is equalization is going to be paid out.
Ontario is now a have-not and Alberta is a haven’t much left…..

Let the howling begin!

PLEASE DONT LYNCH ME READ ON!!!!!!!!!!!!

since the inception of inter-provincial welfare, they have taken advantage of that in spades, why not if you are a politician trying to get elected and you find out that you can pay for your outrageous promises on the backs of others. under the 1867 constitution act, the federalie’s could not interfere with anything deemed to be provincial jurisdiction. nothing new there, sections 90 and 91 of that act.

where quebec has excelled at everyone elses expense is that they have argued successfully for that very same autonomous power while getting us to pay for it, such as daycare and canada health act exemptions and other myriad special dispensations.

i completely agree with the exemptions that quebec has been able to achieve since in my view they are completely constitutional. to complete my satisfaction however would be the ending of provincial welfare transfers and a return to fiscal sanity by those provinces that have become as much an abuser of the system as those individuals who live on the dole for generations.

the gov that introduces that change will probably never form gov with seats from quebec to the east coast, but it is an absolute necessary step to restoring provincial autonomy in matters that affect citizens on a more local level rather than a one size fits all federal approach to everything.

(Yeah, I know, I’m a troublemaker.)

@Gary
As someone born and raised in Ottawa, Quebec provided me with a means to legally buy alcohol when I was 18.

Oh, and let’s not forget Rue St. Catherine…

We just don’t believe it anymore.

There is no threat of Quebec separating,
the seppies pensions would be gone…..!

Where do you think the whole issue came from, and why do you think the Charlottetown and Meech Lake Accords took place? It’s not because of optics.

The main thrust of the issue is this:

…by choosing to repatriate the Constitution without the consent of Quebec and its National Assembly, Canada has in a sense helped to resolve this dilemma. Even if it were in principle possible to use the political weight of the Constitution to oppose the political weight of Quebec’s moral arguments, the balance leans in the latter’s favour. The rason is that the Constitution is, in fact, illegitimate because it was imposed without the consent of the people of Quebec or Quebec’s National Assembly. Therefore, the events of 1982 justify a unilateral declaration of independence, if it should become necessary. To claim that Quebec cannot attain sovereignty without Canada’s consent means to forget that Canada imposed its new constitutional order without Quebec’s consent. However, since it did do so, Canada must now be prepared to accept the consequences and accept the expres-sion of the will of the Quebec people.

Therein lies the problem. The arguments for and against this have been going on ever since.

To my mind the best that could happen is they would dig up Trudeau place every copy of his Constitution on his rotting chest and re-bury the whole stinking thing.