CALGARY--Between 2007 and 2015, Albertans contributed $221.4 billion more revenue to federal coffers than they received in federal transfer payments and services--a much larger net contribution than any other province, finds a new study released today by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank. "It's very clear that over a decade, Alberta disproportionately contributed to the economic success of the country and to federal finances," said Ben Eisen, director of the Fraser Institute's Alberta Prosperity Initiative and co-author of A Friend in Need: Recognizing Alberta's Outsized Contribution to Confederation. Each year, Albertans send far more tax dollars and other types of revenue to Ottawa than they receive in transfer payments and federal services.

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