Ralph bucks

Proper noun

Ralph bucks

1. (Canada) A one-time payment of $400 paid to Albertans in 2006 to commemorate a 2005 provincial budget surplus.
   • 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.2010, William Marsden, Stupid to the Last Drop: How Alberta Is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (And Doesn't Seem to Care), Knopf Canada, →ISBN, retrieved 23 Mar 2022, page 158
   • 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...2016, Jon Gordon, Unsustainable Oil: Facts, Counterfacts and Fictions, University of Alberta Press, →ISBN, retrieved 23 Mar 2022, page 205