softwood lumber bail out helps ontario and quebec as well...also, by ensuring affordable lower costs of lumber canadians all benefit in the prices of housing, and we do better in trade against competitors...furthermore, it generates good jobs, which are citizens paying more federal taxes and spending on the economy that is also taxed and employs people through increased sales...you could nitpick what provinces get what for what reasons till the end of the day; softwood is just one of many (i.e. farming, wheat, fishing, oil, subsidized urban housing, transit, dairy, etc)