text: That is incorrect.  For years Alberta oil tax revenues have been a major source of funds for federal transfer payments to all provinces including BC.
  
  It allowed the Harper government to greatly increase federal transfers to the provinces to assist in financing health care, education, social assistance,  infrastructure etc. 
  
  In 2007 those federal transfers were $47.1 billion and by 2015 they had increased by 69.3 % to $68 billion.