March 11, 2005
Amid a war of words over federal transfers to the provinces, the House of Commons Subcommittee on Fiscal Imbalance recently launched cross-country hearings. The C.D. Howe Institute’s Associate Director of Research, Finn Poschmann, addressed the Committee in Toronto on March 11. His remarks, “The Federal Provincial Balance: Teetering on the Edge of Coherence” suggested that the current system is in disarray, but he also saw good reasons for optimism.
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