Well that was a great read
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equalization_payments_in_Canada
The ongoing gap between the "have" and "have not" provinces is an ongoing economic concern and cause of regional tensions. Much of the gap stems from huge differences in geography, population, and economic activity among provinces, which make any attempt to "equalize" these differences challenging. As shown in the table below, PEI's population is less than 1% of the Canadian total, while Ontario's population is close to 40%. Alberta's GDP per capita is 41% higher than the national average while PEI's is roughly 24% lower—Alberta's GDP per capita is 185% that of PEI yet the average personal income in Alberta is 159% that of PEI.
However, the stated goal of equalization in Canada is not to equalize economies or ensure that economic outcomes are equal. As stated above, it is to "ensure that provincial governments have sufficient revenues to provide reasonably comparable levels of public services at reasonably comparable levels of taxation". Per capita data is central to measuring if provincial outcomes are comparable.
Quebec's high provincial taxes account for its budget surplus, although without equalization Quebec would have had a deficit. Quebec residents pay the highest provincial tax in the country but the lowest federal tax. Quebec residents pay 16.5% less federal income tax annually than other Canadian provinces due to the Quebec Abatement. This lower direct income tax for Quebec residents is factored in when the federal government transfers (Canada Health Transfer, Canada Social Transfer and Equalization) funds back to the Quebec government.
Alberta Premier Kenney added that, since the inception in 1957 of equalization payments, "Quebec has received equalization money every year of the program, totaling 221 billion dollars or 51 per cent of all payments." According to the Library of Parliament report, Quebec receives a larger proportion mainly because of the large population in Quebec representing almost a quarter of the population of Canada. It is much larger than most other equalization-receiving provinces, In 2007 changes were made to the equalization formula based in large part on the way the formula used property tax revenues as one of the factors. As a result, Quebec's proportion of the total amount increased even more since 2007.
On February 28, 2001, Bernard Landry, Parti Québécois leader who took office as Quebec premier on March 8, said that it was "degrading" that Quebec was receiving an extra $1.5 billion in equalization payments in 2001 and that the province had been receiving these payments for over 40 years. Quebec received the "lion's share" of the 2001 equalization payments. In 2000, Quebec economic growth was slower than that of the other six provinces that were also eligible for payments. Landry blamed the federal government for failing to redistribute "real wealth", saying Quebec had been "short-changed" for decades because the federal government did not "spend enough in Quebec on research and industry." Paul Martin, federal finance minister, said Quebec's separatists "pursue political agendas as opposed to economic agendas" and this did not have the "beneficial results for their population".
In 2017, the Coalition Avenir Québec said that since 2003, federal equalization payments to Quebec had tripled to more than $11 billion. The party's leader, François Legault, found it "shameful". In 2019, CAQ Finance Minister Eric Girard wrote in a Financial Post op-ed, argued reiterate the party support to "raise Québec's potential GDP growth to two per cent in order to close the wealth gap with the rest of Canada and assume greater economic leadership within the federation". He ended the article by stating "Someday, Québec will no longer receive equalization payments, and this will be a great day for Québec and Canada."
Ps: i'm a french canadian from quebec, im also a plumber, so i see alot of people everyday. I have to either go to different houses to work or go in commercial, instutional buildings to build bathroom and stuff.. anyway i see many different types of people. None of them talk about this, maybe the politicians do, but the common people don't. No one gloat about how much money they stole from alberta, because they don't know about that and they don't care about that. Most of us are just trying to get to friday with enough energy to have some fun in the week-end dude.
Happy easter 👋
For someone not noticing he seem to talk about it alot. He also had to sell twitter to his ai company to get some liquidity prob to pay back some investor whom wanted out. So his action seems to tell he does care. But who know what goes on in his head.
Shiny were introduced in gen 2? The odd of a shiny in fire red was 1 in 8192. Fun fact: you could techically get shiny pokemon in gen 1 but the value for wild pokemon was bugged and i'm pretty sure they had no shiny sprite. Which mean they would only become shiny by trade.
Just imagine it: your best pal whip out his new pokemon silver cartridge he got for christmas, sadly your momma didn't have money this year for you, so you put your yellow one in and start semi playing while looking at your friends game. You begin some rando trade after his second badge , his team is getting wrecked by a cow..? bam! He show you the electrode you just traded, THAT DAMN INVERTED POKEBALL BECAME GREEN WTF!!
Nowaday you would probably have to pay an extra dlc for that kind of stuff.
Let's talk about textile then!
https://link.springer.com/article/10.2991/jat.k.201126.001
This study uses Comtrade trade data covering 1990–2017, 14 textile subsectors, and 53 African countries with their main trade partners to evaluate Chinese trade impacts on African textile exports over three subperiods at the sector level. It finds that, although textile imports from China had a significant positive impact during the first period, this effect disappeared in the second period. From 2009 to 2017, the impact became significantly negative.
Nevermind that, let's talk about nortel and huawei!
Which is the perfect moment to talk about...
Why would chinese ever be afraid of other people copying them? Unless they know what might happen because they... did it?
We can also talk about tibet, sri lanka, australia, new zealand, hong kong, taiwan, maynmar, russian sanction's... the list is quite long.
245 millions could've voted, 90 millions didnt vote, 77 millions voted for trump.
68% of people either didn't care about fascism or wanted it.
Dear americans, wtf happened. Where were you.
No problem i kinda understand how you feel my SO got her diagnostic 2 yrs ago and it's been constant research since. Keep it up and continue questionning everything, no one has ever been harmed by a question. Much love from canada 👋
Technology my dudes 🤙 if you remove our understanding of electricity and fire we go back to the stone age in less than a year.
No he doesn't because trauma, aka emetional or mental distress caused by experience have nothing to do with it.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5501015/
Few would dispute that the causes of ASD include both genetic and environmental factors. Indeed, more than 100 genes are known to confer risk1,2 and 1,000 or more may ultimately be identified.3 A wide range of potential environmental challenges have also been associated with autism, although studies in this area lag behind genomics research. A short overview of data supports genetic and environmental contributions to ASD etiology. A focus on prenatal events will hopefully clarify that the cause of autism, in the vast majority of cases, occurs prenatally, even if behavioral signs first appear several years after birth.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6901292/
ASD is a heterogeneous disorder, both etiologically and in terms of clinical presentation, and individuals with ASD demonstrate a wide spectrum of abilities and challenges. While the etiology of ASD is complex and still remains largely unknown, this condition is likely the result of the interactive effects of genetic and environmental risk factors (Lai et al. 2014; Schaefer 2016; Tchaconas and Adesman 2013). ASD is a highly heritable neurodevelopmental disorder, with a high concordance rate among monozygotic twins (Bailey et al. 1995) and an increased risk of sibling recurrence (Ozonoff et al. 2011; Risch et al. 2014). ASD is largely not a single-gene disorder. Rather, there are likely hundreds of genes that contribute to its etiology (Gilman et al. 2011; Levy et al. 2011). A number of environmental factors, particularly during the prenatal period, also present an increased risk for ASD including maternal diabetes, infection, fever, and inflammation (Ornoy et al. 2015); maternal asthma and allergies (Croen et al. 2005); the use of certain drugs during pregnancy (Croen et al. 2011; Gidaya et al. 2016;), extreme prematurity (Johnson et al. 2010), and maternal exposure to air pollution (Raz et al. 2015; Volk et al. 2013). Advanced parental age (Idring et al. 2014) has also been associated with an increased risk of ASD.
Tl,dr; genetics and prenatal disposition are the only known causes.
What i think op describe is more likely the masking autistic people do which is a defense mechanism they use after living traumatic event.
Someone else said musk is prob forcing him to do it because he want to be the next president. Since he has canadian nationality he'll be able to gun for president.
Kinda crazy guess, but they are crazy so 🤷♂️
Old man shout at canada... again
Hello easyspeezy here, today we got quite a special order, we are doing a bankruptcy speedrun!
Oh he's been losing popularity for a while now. There is a reason why he had a minority gov this time. I don't think a pm was ever able to stay 4 mandate in canada?
We dont need chinese ev to wreck US car industry. We need toyota and their hilux truck brand. We could build a toyota electric car manufacture around quebec's battery shop and a toyota hilux around alberta.
https://thedispatch.com/article/fact-checking-a-claim-that-fox-news/
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-staffers-agree-fox-not-news-organization
Even the people working there doesn't consider this as news, but you do you.
So you like capitalism: the prequel and all the lies they say to get the soul crushing machine ready, but disagree with post-capitalist aka the actual soul crushing machine.. crushing soul?
Im a french canadian plumber, nothing scream "have you tried unplugging and pluggin it again" more than that, yet here i am?
The people still on reddit will die with it, it's where they made their home and there will always be a reason to stay.
Sorry about the late response. It's a semi old post of jagmeet calling out the cons stance on abortion.
I forgot the most important part https://x.com/theJagmeetSingh/status/1875282427503112596