Alberta Government Paper Calls for Change or End to Federal Equalization Program

Alberta Government Paper Calls for Change or End to Federal Equalization Program
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith as Canada's premiers meet in Ottawa on Feb. 7, 2023. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick
Marnie Cathcart
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EDMONTON—Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her government has heard “loud and clear from Albertans that the federal equalization program is unfair and must be changed or abolished.”

In a April 21 news release accompanying a position paper title Responding to Canada’s Growth Challenge – Options to Reform Equalization, Smith suggests that the current program “creates barriers to regional economic growth and gives excessive transfers to recipient provinces.”