Sentence examples for equalization payments from inspiring English sources

Other sections of the act recognized the aboriginal and treaty rights of native peoples, strengthened the provinces' jurisdiction over their natural resources, and committed the central government to provide public services of reasonable quality across Canada by ensuring revenue (equalization) payments to the provinces.

The next sections of the Constitution Act, 1982, including section 35 (which affirms Aboriginal rights) and section 36 (which affirms equalization payments), are thus not Charter rights.

Equalization payments are made by the federal government to ensure that reasonably uniform standards of services and taxation are kept between the richer and poorer provinces.

A poll showed support for the Williams government was at 86 percent after Williams secured a deal with Federal Prime Minister Martin over equalization payments.

So now Manitoba is stuck with a leader that Koop describes as the most conservative in the country, as in farther right than Saskatchewan Premier Brad "I Don't Understand How Equalization Payments Work" Wall.

In late 2004, premier Danny Williams threw a temper tantrum over the possibility that the province's sudden oil wealth might mean we'd get less money from our equalization payments, so he tugged at our soft-nationalist heartstrings by pulling the Canadian flag down from every government building in the province.

Goldman Sachs said: The announced equalization payment of around $240m is well below our estimated value of $450m (to keep private Kazakhmys cash positive through the end of the decade) and hence a positive for Kazakhmys shares.

Until 2012 an ex-post (retrospective) risk-sharing scheme was in place, and this accounted for an estimated 25% of total risk-equalization payments in 2010 [ 14].

The provincial budget also depends on federal equalization grants and other federal transfer payments.

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall has already declared that he wants to revisit the equalization formula and claw back transfer payments to Quebec, and there is every reason to expect that the other premiers have equally strong opinions on how much money they should be getting from each other.

The risk equalization fund provides risk-adjusted capitation payments (or premium subsidies) to health insurers in order to equalize predictable differences in health care expenditure associated with individual risk characteristics.