BC, Alberta and Ontario—the traditional have provinces—have fewer nurses per 100,000 people, fewer residential care beds, higher tuition rates, fewer child care spaces and higher student-educator ratios compared to most equalization recipients
This study by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, a right of centre western-based think tank, claims to show how Canada’s equalization program creates generous programs and large governments in have-not provinces. Simply put, taxpayers in the traditional have provinces subsidize substantially more generous public services in the recipient provinces.
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