Canadians blast Ottawa Over Treatment Of Saskatchewan
The following article was written by DEAN BEEBY of Canadian Press and appears in Oilweek Magazine:
OTTAWA (CP) The Harper government got blasted over its treatment of Saskatchewan when Canadians were asked about the fiscal imbalance in an Internet survey last summer.
But you won‘t read that in the official report from the Finance Department about the web consultations it‘s found only in an internal document obtained by The Canadian Press.
Saskatchewan‘s demand to exclude non-renewable resources from a revamped equalization program a $12-billion transfer of cash to Canada‘s have-not provinces was clearly the hot-button issue for Canadians responding to the month-long consultation, which ended Sept. 8.
Oilweek
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OTTAWA (CP) The Harper government got blasted over its treatment of Saskatchewan when Canadians were asked about the fiscal imbalance in an Internet survey last summer.
But you won‘t read that in the official report from the Finance Department about the web consultations it‘s found only in an internal document obtained by The Canadian Press.
Saskatchewan‘s demand to exclude non-renewable resources from a revamped equalization program a $12-billion transfer of cash to Canada‘s have-not provinces was clearly the hot-button issue for Canadians responding to the month-long consultation, which ended Sept. 8.
Oilweek
tag equalization
