The real have-nots in confederation, Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia

The authors of this study have worked independently and the opinions expressed are therefore their own, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the board of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. [...] SERIES Executive summary This policy study analyzes Canada’s equal- How the have ization program to compare government services in the have and have-not provin- provinces lose out ces to discover if the residents in recipient under equalization provinces end up with more-generous public services than those who pay part of The evidence presented in this paper the bill, i.e., those in the have provi [...] SERIES Childcare and education The subsidization and direct provision Chart 4 shows the number of regulated of educational services for children and childcare spaces in the province as a young adults consumes a major amount percentage of the total number of children of the provincial budgets in Canada. [...] The billions in equalization money keep undergraduate tuition levels low the province receives enables Quebec to relative to the actual cost of a university offer undergraduate tuition that is substant- education, the average tuition payments for ially cheaper than what is available to the full-time undergraduate students in each taxpayers in the have provinces who pay province is a useful metric [...] This graph shows there are substantially When one examines the five-province more nurses as a share of the population average for the have and have-not in the equalization recipient provinces provinces, the gap in this indicator of than in the paying provinces.