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In article <4vnd9i$mp5@news.axess.com>, Gilles Blanchette wrote:
>sscott@vcn.bc.ca (Sheldon Scott) wrote:

>It is amazing to see how many canadian are close of the money they pay
>in tax when the Qu�bec is around.  They always forget that we are
>paying close to 25% of that amount($100 million). We all know here
>that a part of our tax do not come back and go to balance the budjet
>of smallers provinces and we do not yell after them like you do for
>us. Because we think that it is normal to support the weaker parts of
>that country. It is not with this kind of attitude than you will bring
>back the Qu�bec in the  bosom canadian.

There seems to be a widely held misconception in Quebec re transfer
payments. Quebec, like Newfoundland, Manitoba and 5 other provinces, is a
'have-not' province and thus receives more from the federal government than
it sends to Ottawa. Ontario, Alberta and BC are the three 'have' provinces
and receive less from the federal government than they send to Ottawa.
FWIW, although Quebec benefits the most in absolute dollars, Newfoundland,
for example, benefits far more on a per-capita basis.

Without getting into whether Quebec should really be designated a
'have-not' province, I, nonetheless, think it behooves Quebecers to know
what the reality of the situation is.

-- 
Jim Robinson
robinson@mdd.comm.mot.com