Letters to Provinces and Territories: Manitoba 2018

The Honourable Scott Fielding, M.L.A.
Minister of Finance
Government of Manitoba
Room 103
Legislative Building
450 Broadway
Winnipeg, MB R3C 0V8

Dear Colleague:

I look forward to welcoming you to the December 2018 Federal, Provincial and Territorial Finance Ministers' Meeting in Ottawa and wish to congratulate you once again on being sworn in as Minister of Finance.

In the meantime, I am pleased to provide you with Manitoba's transfer payment amounts for 2019-20 in accordance with the Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act (the Act) and relevant regulations.

Total major transfers to Manitoba for 2019-20 will round to $4,262 million, an increase of $299 million from 2018-19. The first estimates of your province's Canada Health Transfer and Canada Social Transfer payments for 2019-20 are $1,474.1 million and $532.5 million respectively. In accordance with the legislated formula under the Act and its regulations, your province's Equalization payment for 2019-20 will be $2,255.4 million.

Enclosed for your information is a table presenting the 2019-20 major transfer amounts for each province and territory. The table will be provided to your officials and posted on the Department of Finance's website in the context of the December 2018 Finance Ministers' Meeting.

I look forward to working collaboratively with you in this meeting and beyond to advance our shared priorities that matter to Canadians.

Yours sincerely,

The Honourable Bill Morneau, P.C., M.P.