Jimbo are you from Alberta? Because your comments make it look like you are on another Fricken Planet! Good jobs still available? I work in recruiting in Alberta and can assure you that there are not a lot of jobs available in this market and it will get worse with the commercial sector now seeing the effects of oil dropping 2 years ago. Yes you are right that provinces do not pay into equalization and it comes from taxes gained but there is no logical comment anyone on this planet can make that can proves that Quebec deserves $11 billion in payments and Western Canada doesn't get a cent. It's the feds just trying to keep votes in Quebec that's it that's all.