Sentences with phrase «federal transfer payments»

The «Day of Action» protested the decreases in federal transfer payments to the provinces, which have boosted tuition by 126 % and have more than tripled the average Canadian student's debt to C$ 28,000 in 1998.

The money is the first direct federal outlay for overhead costs, which up to now have been met by a combination of provincial operating grants to universities and federal transfer payments for postsecondary education.

Here's one example of the disregard for economic incentives: federal transfer payments to the provinces, especially for health, social and education services.

poor houses, work houses — rather than state funded social security, old age security, UI / EI, federal transfer payments, etc..