Commission on the Reform of Ontario's Public Services

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Relative Price Index
CHART 20.8 Intercity Price Index, 2009
110
105
100
95
90
85
Toronto, ON
Ottawa-Gatineau, ON/QC
Source: Statistics Canada.
Edmonton, AB
Vancouver, BC
Halifax, NS
Charlottetown, PEI
Average
Regina, SK
St. John's, NF
Saint John, NB
Montréal, QC
Winnipeg, MB
“It is important to note that Ontario’s actual per capita revenues are, after equalization, less than those of any traditional have-not
province… It will cost more (i.e. require more revenue) for Ontario to provide one such bundle [of public services] than it will for any of
the traditional recipients, because wages and prices are higher here.”
Tom Courchene, “Economy, Ontario: Have Not Province,” Sept. 20, 2011, Mowat Centre for Policy Innovation.
“…in many important ways, residents of the have provinces of British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario receive lower levels of
government services than do taxpayers in the have-not provinces whose government activities they subsidize.”
Ben Eisen and Mark Milke, Frontier Centre for Public Policy, 2010.