When taken together with its own standard yield revenue, this payment gives each individual province the same amount it would have received had its own sources generated taxes equal to the average per capita revenue received by the five provinces that are the benchmark, and they are Ontario, British Columbia, Manitoba, Quebec and Saskatchewan.
La norme de péréquation correspond aux recettes par habitant qui résulteraient de l'application du régime fiscal représentatif dans cinq provinces: l'Ontario, la Colombie- Britannique, le Manitoba, le Québec et la Saskatchewan.