Ralph bucks

English Prosperity Bonus Etymology Named after Ralph Klein, who was premier of Alberta when the payment was issued. Proper noun en Canada politics A one-time payment of $400 paid to Albertans in 2006 to commemorate a 2005 provincial budget surplus. en The Tories have basically treated oil and gas revenues as their own private slush fund. When they need votes, they buy them. The $1.3 billion in "Ralph Bucks" dished out in 2005 to Albertans in $400 cheques is only the latest example. William Marsden Stupid to the Last Drop: How Alberta Is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (And Doesn't Seem to Care) Knopf Canada 2010 978-0-307-37031-0 https://books.google.ca/books?id=_8WTUg1EhIEC March 23, 2022 158 en Jon Gordon Unsustainable Oil: Facts, Counterfacts and Fictions University of Alberta Press 2016 978-1-77212-100-1 https://books.google.ca/books?id=i8SrDwAAQBAJ March 23, 2022 205 The so-called Ralph bucks, named for then-premier Ralph Klein, though much derided by critics as an attempt to buy the electorate with their own money, could also be read as a populist attempt to include the population in the windfall profits the government was then reaping from the sale of oil leases and royalties.