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A significant amount of its own funding is transferred by the federal government to the provinces and territories to support important social investments, such as health care and education. These are called transfers. Finance Canada administers these transfers. The key transfer programs are:
- Equalization, which
ensures that less prosperous provinces can provide reasonably
comparable public services without their taxes being out of line with
those of more affluent provinces; and
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