>>1262482>No, it isn't. It is, and has always been, a net recipient of federal equalization payments.And here's where dumbshit ignorance of how the money moves comes in -- Quebec gets so much because Quebec pays in a shitload of tax money.
other provinces are ~net losers~ because while they make a lot from industry, their private taxes arent very high and they generally dont pay a lot into the federal budget in favor of keeping it for themselves. Alberta receives jack shit because Alberta is scared to death of imposing taxes, and individuals make a shitload but just spend it privately on whatever, like groceries or bills or booze, but mostly untaxed. Quebec, meanwhile, you pay like 30% or something stupid like that even as a pauper on welfare
>There are other industries in the province like cattle ranching, energy production, logging and mining. honestly, Quebec and Alberta are really similar now that I think about it -- an agrarian economy propped up by high tech manufacturing. the difference is that Alberta doesnt charge a lot of tax, while Quebec demands an arm and a leg in exchange for a different arm and leg in return.
Alberta has cattle, Quebec loves horses. Alberta produces other energy, Quebec sells hydro power to the northeast US. Quebec also has logging and mining and plenty of food production too, just like alberta's vast fields of wheat and corn, but we do more cash-crop-y stuff like maple syrup and dairy products rather than staple foods like Alberta's wheat and corn.
> the federal government throws massive bailouts to shit-heels like Bombardier,yeah and the oil industry in Alberta has no helping hands? Halifax isn't coddling Irving? BC isn't single-handedly keeping China happy?
It's just like I said -- Quebec is not a net loss. Other provinces just feel so
If Quebec were such a black hole to cash, we'd have been forcibly ejected in the 60s, let alone having to have a pair of referendae about it and Canada as an entity scrambling jets about it
