MONTRÉAL, QC: The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) today released a study demonstrating the perverse effects of federal transfers on Québec. The report also challenges the Quebec government to achieve “Zero Equalization” by 2025.
The authors of the study relied on two underlying problems to arrive at this goal: federal transfers discourage competition of different public policies amongst the provinces and create a dependency effect among Québec politicians, who can always ask for more federal money without taxing their citizens more.
