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The commission was established in July 1933 by the Lyons government during the Great Depression to provide impartial advice on the distribution of federal government grants to the states. [2] The commission operates under the Commonwealth Grants Commission Act 1973 , and is responsible for measuring the relative fiscal capacity of each state ...
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Grants Programme Governance The board of governors provides oversight to the foundation's grant making through the Grants Committee, comprising representatives of member states and reports to the executive committee. In addition to receiving reports on grants made by the foundation, the committee is called upon to make decisions on larger awards.
Equalization payments do not, technically, involve wealthy provinces making payments to poor provinces, although in practice this is what happens, via the federal treasury. As an example, a wealthy citizen in New Brunswick, a so-called "have not" province, pays more into equalization than a poorer citizen in Alberta, a so-called "have" province.
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