FEDERAL PROVINCIAL FINANCIAL EQUALIZATION AND THE CANADIAN CONSTITUTION Academic Article

abstract

• The development of federal-provincial financial equalization in Canada is reviewed in this essay. Also included is a discussion of the 19821987 fiscal arrangements; an explanation of two competing philosophies of equalizationfiscal need and fiscal equity; and an exploration of some implications of the 1982 Constitution Act for the future of equalization in Canada. It is concluded that the 1982 Act offers substantial support to the narrow-based fiscal equity principle and that future equalization programs in Canada should therefore be similar to current practice.

authors

• Eden, Lorraine

published proceedings

• ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING C-GOVERNMENT AND POLICY

altmetric score

• 3

author list (cited authors)

• AULD, D., & EDEN, L. B.

citation count

• 0

complete list of authors

• AULD, DAL||EDEN, LB

publication date

• January 1983

publisher

• SAGE Publications  Publisher

published in

• Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy  Journal

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1068/c010475

start page

• 475

end page

• 487

volume

• 1

issue

• 4

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/c010475