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Originally Posted by Joshy
And yet Manitoba is still in the top rankings of the pack for payments, Quebec I believe is still at the top but Manitoba is up there as well. So clearly we have a long way to go before there are any significant changes to the welfare state. Nothing to boast about.
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Manitoba gets the third-most equalization payments because it has the third-largest population of the have-nots. But per capita, Manitoba is one of the have-nots that receives the least (Quebec and Ontario also get less per capita than the Maritimes...)