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daleo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-04 01:31 AM
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33. Yes this is another indirect form of federal funding
Edited on Mon Nov-15-04 01:33 AM by daleo
There used to be a block grant for education and welfare that the federal government gave - when I was in the Ontario government we always claimed it was being eroded by inflation, etc. - part of that was talk was just the usual federal-provincial squabbling. Also, some of the money that is given out as equalization payments to "have-not" provinces probably ends up in university budgets.

But overall, I would still say the majority of post-secondary funding is provincial (the U of A gets about 375 million from the province and 90 million from other government sources, for example). In Alberta's case, it could afford to spend a lot more, too.

http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/strategic/nav03.cfm?nav03=17568&nav02=17560&nav01=17123

But, as is often the case, when one looks at the details there is substantial overlap between the levels of government.

On edit - Any Americans that are looking into moving to Canada might as well get used to these federal-provincial jurisdictional debates - it is what a large part of our political discourse comes down to.
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