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If you’re unhappy about equalization, grab a towel to chew on as you consider the Bloc Quebecois idea for reforming the system.

It is a flat-out anti-Alberta policy in all but name.

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Bloc Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet doesn’t even bother to hide his hostility — the result, perhaps, of Alberta lectures to Quebec over pipelines and oil imports going back to ex-premier Alison Redford.

Blanchet calls it La Perequation Verte, or Green Equalization. It’s a major plank in the Bloc’s election platform, released in French only.

This plan could actually mean something, since the Bloc is surging in Quebec and just might end up supporting a minority government, either Liberal or Conservative.

Blanchet is deeply annoyed, for instance, by the federal purchase of the Trans Mountain pipeline project.

Quebec helped pay for that, he says. But the Bloc demands that Ottawa should stop building pipelines and immediately end all subsidies for oil and gas.