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> Equalization is complicated, but there is no cheque written from Alberta to Quebec. Instead, the federal government pays Quebec its share of it from its own funds, mostly from federal income and sales taxes. The calculation of it is based on potential tax revenue.

Tell me if I'm wrong but someone from Quebec told me that equalization always has to be profitable for Quebec. Else, nationalists will bring up that they are footing the bill for the whole country and want out.

> The Alberta government has been able to direct this rage to the federal government and Quebec though when the people really should be looking to their own provincial government instead.

The same guy told me you could win elections really easily by bashing Quebec (which sounds absurd, here you'll get no reaction bashing NY for gubernatorial race) and that Newfoundland apparently almost went bankrupt twice with such governments (they were doing hydro I think?).