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The Cons were no different.... promising tax breaks and no way to pay for them. They were absolutely no different than the Libs this election. Plus, they were even worse under Harper.
Debt to GDP declined between 2012 and 2015. Since then it has gone up 2.8%.Trudeau also hasn't had a recession to deal with, let alone the biggest one since 1929.
Trudeau hasn't, at least so far, robbed the "rainy day fund" in a feeble last ditch attempt to try and show a budget surplus as Harper did after all those years of deficits.
Harper was awful by every measure.
Whatever, he wasn't increasing deficits when the country wasn't in recession.
What rainy day fund?
It's more properly known as the "contingency/emergency fund" which is where ~2/3rds of the funds came from, the rest from selling GM shares, and at a loss of course, to finally try and show a surplus after all those deficits.
When you are carrying debt and running deficits there is no such thing as a rainy day fund, only borrowed money you haven't spent yet.
The GM shares , for example, were not borrowed money. They weree shares owned, and then cashed in at a loss, for political purposes. You may need an update on basic economics.
No but we were borrowing money so we didn't have to sell them. Would you borrow money and pay interest on it just so it looked good in your bank account?
Nope, but I'm not Harper flailing around in a last ditch effort to try get reelected using other peoples money.
Who's money do you think Trudeau is using? Who gets to pay interest on what he borrows. I would say pay back but we both know that won't happen.
We pay over 26 billion in interest on the federal debt. How much was that revised deficit again? Oh, 26.6 billion.