Originally Posted by stev0

They're Canadian's too... and our taxes really aren't that high. We're lucky that we've in the middle of a booming oil economy right now, but it's their country too.

I don't have a huge problem with equalization payments, except for those fuckers in Quebec that do nothing but complain while we throw billions of dollars at them every year. The fishing industry in the east took a big blow and they need it, and softwood lumber kind of fucked over BC's profit. More than half of the entire countries equalization payments go to Quebec though, I dont get it...