If they're going to fix it they should fix it the right way, not in some half cocked way only designed to get more votes in Quebec.
Equalization is a good idea, but it's been corrupted by man. If it were applied the way it was intended instead of all these backroom deals to each province there wouldn't be a problem. But you've got all the provinces, especially oddly enough the have provinces, whining and complaining and the feds not doing what they should do: Tell them to shut the you know what up.