Thursday, April 21, 2005

Journalist Tony Keller, who is a Visiting Fellow this year at the Faculty of Law, wrote an opinion piece in the Toronto Star on February 27, 2005, "Go to Newfoundland, and visit your money."

Keller wonders when Ontario voters will finally get angry at the $23 billion more the Federal Government took from Ontario taxpayers than it returned in transfers, services and benefits last year. Newfoundland, in contrast, benefited from net federal inflows of $2.6 billion, Nova Scotia was ahead by $4.4 billion and Quebec was up $3 billion, Keller points out.

He quotes a recent paper by University of Toronto law professor Sujit Choudhry.

To read the full commentary, please visit the Toronto Star.