🚨🇨🇦 CANADA’S EQUALIZATION SCAM

Why Quebec collects billions and Alberta pays.

Follow the math. 👇

1/
Quebec receives $13.6B in equalization for 2025–26 — nearly half the entire program.

Yet Hydro-Québec paid $3.2B in dividends in 2024.

Only 50% of hydro revenue counts in the formula.

2/
The loophole:
Quebec underprices hydro → lowers “fiscal capacity.”

For every $100M in extra hydro profit, Quebec loses only ~$70M in equalization.

Little downside. Big incentive.

3/
Alberta gets no such shield.
Oil & gas revenues ($14B+ in 2025–26) fully count → zero equalization.

Yet Albertans still fund ~16% of federal revenues.

4/
Same country. Same Constitution. Two rulebooks.

• Hide revenue → get cheques
• Produce revenue → get penalized
If Alberta “hid” oil like Quebec shields hydro?

👨🏻‍🔧Equalization collapses.

5/
The result:

📉 Pipelines blocked

💰 $324B net outflow from Alberta (2000–2019)

📊 Growing Western alienation

Equalization was meant to unite Canada.🇨🇦

Instead, it’s straining it.
Reform it ..or risk breaking the country

Albertans what are your thoughts?

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