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This would require devaluing certain stakeholder groups such as climate change and indigenous rights activists, the Feds and Provinces sticking to their own jurisdictions and Parliament willing to expend political capital to push back on the Courts and Quebec Sovereigntists. The Harper...

I suspect that should be 638'

Are both towers going ahead at once?

Proposals for that site have historically been a leading indicator of a real estate crash

I am thinking that the floor would also be a de facto ceiling on payments to allegedly have not provinces. In Canada, for example, keeping 80% of federal receipts in Alberta would been lowering federal spending in Quebec. I don't see how the ability of individual provinces/states to raise their...

..and another useless Councilor moving on to something else

Solution would be some combination of: reducing federal taxes and allowing the provinces to raise their taxes to compensate, with the Feds cutting per capita transfers by the same dollar total something similar to Australia that sets a floor on the percentage of federal receipts collected in a...

Barely and during a downcycle for the SK economy

Isn't the first paragraph rather ironic in that tax revenue from SK is now being showered on Montreal?

Income capacity is difficult to measure. The Feds' current measure is ridiculously gamed to favor Quebec, the most egregious example being including non-renewable resource revenue, in effect asset sales, but not including electricity exports.

A few comments: -how long would a light rail tunnel need to be under 85th to get from the currently planned terminus to WD? -does ROW exist beyond WD to extend light rail to a park n ride along Stoney? -could WD eventually expand westward into the lands still occupied by radio towers, to...

Calgary has about 3 months in the winter where shadowing is really significant simply due to the sun not rising very high

That is the flaw right there. A country is nothing more than a geographic area in which movement of people, goods, services and capital approaches non-restriction. Equalization should be the minimal amount required to maintain that mobility. Why should social welfare have significant federal...

PST=political suicide tax in Alberta The primary reason dependence on non-renewable resource revenues has increased is that many oilsands facilities achieved payout which increased the royalty rate.

Why shouldn't Quebec be punished for -lack of charging market rates for daycare and electricity -lack of charging average rates for tuition -bans on revenue generating natural resource exploitation -compromising its fiscal capacity with language laws

I doubt a price drop/export tax (they would have the same net impact) would lead to curtailment. The industry has already survived worse. An export ban could lead to calls for government managed curtailment. I'd still be more worried about the Red Menace in Ottawa surviving for a fourth term...

The Liberals always look for excuses to protect Laurentian industries or roll out stimulus packages, so a trade war conveniently becomes the problem to the already favored solution. The US will never implement tariffs long term as nothing draws the ire of Americans than getting in the way of...

The Executive only has the authority to implement tariffs in response to issues of national security, which is why Trump is conjuring drug and people trafficking. It also lacks the authority to pursue annexation. There are probably some legal avenues and appeals to Congress to nullify the false...

And to stop fentanyl and to stop illegal migrants etc. More "Art of the Deal" distraction. The only path forward is formal negotiation.

Yes. Under the Parliamentary system, the leader is chosen by caucus. Delegated selection is yet another Americanism that has creeped in to Canada