{"id":803946,"date":"2026-07-15T17:56:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/803946\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T17:56:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:56:25","slug":"equalization-flop-rich-provinces-got-billions-poorer-ones-got-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/803946\/","title":{"rendered":"Equalization flop: Rich provinces got billions, poorer ones got nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!2pIr!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3193f4b9-6cf1-443b-9786-a6a002f8fa27_2048x1072.jpeg\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img can-restack\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/3193f4b9-6cf1-443b-9786-a6a002f8fa27_2048.jpeg\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1072\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/3193f4b9-6cf1-443b-9786-a6a002f8fa27_2048x1072.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1072,&quot;width&quot;:2048,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:705349,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.junonews.com\/i\/207076052?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8c1ff76d-b40b-42c8-9ccd-25480a0648df_2048x1639.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"sizing-normal\"\/><\/a>Source: X (Mark Carney)<\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s equalization program has repeatedly done the opposite of what it promises\u2014cutting cheques to richer provinces while poorer ones were shut out, a new Fraser Institute study found.<\/p>\n<p>The non-partisan think tank found Canada\u2019s equalization formula favoured at least one richer province over a poorer one in 15 of the last 25 years, highlighting structural flaws in the program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore often than not, over the past few decades, there have been provinces that have received equalization even though they had a higher living standard than provinces that received none,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fraserinstitute.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-07\/is-equalization-broken-newsrelease-ntl.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> Tegan Hill, co-author of Is Equalization Broken?<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fraserinstitute.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-07\/is-equalization-broken-comparing-payments-with-GDP-per-person.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> found that in all but three years between 1981 and 2024, the equalization formula either paid more per person to wealthier recipient provinces or excluded poorer provinces altogether.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Source: X (Mark Carney) Canada\u2019s equalization program has repeatedly done the opposite of what it promises\u2014cutting cheques to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-803946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}