Terminus : Tout l'monde descend !
11 mars 2010
La péréquation, le ciment du fédéralisme, sérieusement remise en question par le nouveau ministre des finances de l'Alberta, "Pit bull" Morton, qui en une priorité des priorités de son ordre du jour face à Ottawa:
Extrait du Globe and Mail, 3 mars 2010
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Mr. Morton said equalization as it stands enables have-not provinces to offer more generous public services than their wealthy counterparts and transfers too much money from more productive jurisdictions to less-productive ones.
"That is the real problem with equalization: it looks like free money to certain people, to receiving provinces," Mr. Morton said in an interview.
It's especially galling, he said, given the restraints placed on Alberta by the recession. Although overall spending rose in the province's January budget - almost all due to health care increases - spending was cut in many other government departments.
Mr. Morton said Albertans are irritated to see have-not provinces offering better services than their own jurisdiction, which receives billions of dollars less in programs from Ottawa than it pays in federal taxes.
"When Albertans see [billions] flowing out of the provinces and going to provinces where university tuition is half of what it is here - or there is $7-a-day daycare - it doesn't sit very well."
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/an-unequal-race-among-provinces-to-clean-up-their-deficits/article1487711/
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Et l'Ontario va joindre l'Alberta pour l'abolition du programme de péréquation:
Inequalities of equalization leave Ontarians worse off
Have-nots end up with better services than provinces that are paying the bills
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This issue has the potential to divide the country and to create much greater tension within the federation. For years, Ontario citizens have been content to accept the status quo, but there is evidence that is changing.
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The Mowat Centre found that 63 per cent of Ontarians say their province does not receive its fair share of transfers from the federal government. That is up from 37 per cent in 1998. Similarly, the percentage of Ontarians who feel that the province is not treated with the respect it deserves increased from 27 per cent to 51 per cent over the same period. Today, 50 per cent of Ontarians feel that the province's influence is decreasing; just 8 per cent think it is increasing.
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Il est à prévoir que d'autres provinces se joindraient à l'Alberta et l'Ontario.
La remise en cause de la péréquation serait l'occasion pour le Québec de demander au fédéral,de sortir de tous les programmes sur son territoire pour épargner les coûts des dédoublements du système.
Bref la dynamique qui mène à la rupture du cadre Constitutionnel.
JCPomerleau
P.s : http://www.vigile.net/Pour-en-finir-avec-la-perequation