Albertan Canada Economic and Pipeline Update
Federal support to provinces
Appendix
Main transfer programs to provinces
Canada Health
Transfer (CHT)
Canada Social
Transfer (CST)
Equalization
Transfer
Grows in line with federal annual escalator (3%) and
changes to Alberta's share of the national population
• Grows in line with federal annual escalator and
changes to Alberta's share of the national population
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• Ensures provinces have sufficient revenues to
provide reasonably comparable levels of public
services at reasonably comparable levels of taxation
• Receiving provinces are free to spend the funds
according to their own priorities
Determined by provinces' fiscal capacity relative to
the Canadian Average
Alberta expects to receive $8 billion in federal transfers in 2017-18,
including CHT and CST payments but no equalization
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