Questions have been raised as to whether the equalization payments system in Canada is such that a recipient government’s tax and expenditure policies may have a direct effect on the size of its equalization payment. As a result, there has been discussion over the possible links between the...

The paper examines the relationship between economic growth and environmental degradation in Canada. Reduced form models are estimated to measure the relationship between GDP and 10 measures of environmental degradation. The reduced form results provide little support for the existence of an...