Canadian Politics Today

Most of the things you mentioned, the federal government has no jurisdiction over.  Health care and education, for instance.

But ya, the tax cuts were dumb, we should have used the tax revenue to pay down the debt a bit...at least until the recession hit.

I agree. I was against the cuts at the time and said so. For me, paying down the debt is number one. Unfortunately, they used it as an election ploy and Canadians being ****, it certainly got them a number of votes. I don't think they really needed it, though.