'Cut It': Taxpayer Advocate, Experts Weigh In on Equalization Changes

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : It just gives them cash without any conditions or restrictions to supposedly bring the level of social services up to that of the median place in Canada," Madsen told The Epoch Times.
51% : What all this would look like once the smoke has cleared is anyone's guess."Section 36(2) of the 1982 Constitution Act says, "Parliament and the government of Canada are committed to the principle of making equalization payments to ensure that provincial governments have sufficient revenues to provide reasonably comparable levels of public services at reasonably comparable levels of taxation."
49% :Ian Madsen, senior policy analyst for the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, says the United States, UK, and EU have taken measures to help regions at times, but they were always temporary.

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