The current debate on Ottawa’s equalization payments to economically disadvantaged provinces is not primarily, as Stephane Dion asserted in these pages last week, about special treatment or about disincentives that the program creates for recipient provinces – as worthy as…

Equalization was designed to give cash to economically weaker provinces so that they would have total revenues that are comparable to a representative Canadian average. And at that task, the program works remarkably well. In doing so, however, the program…

The story of a repeatedly jilted lover who, with vain hope, returns again and again to his partner is tragically familiar. Just as familiar as, say, provincial governments asking Ottawa for additional dollars for health care.  In the beginning of…

The debate over Ottawa’s equalization payments to economically disadvantaged provinces is not primarily about special treatment or about disincentives the program creates for recipient provinces.  The real debate is about the proper role of nonrenewable resources within the equalization program. …

While only the truly paranoid would argue there is a risk of a repeat of the disastrous National Energy Program, Albertans are right to be nervous of Ottawa operating solo when it comes to discussing continental energy policy with the…