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You'd be hard-pressed to find a majority government in the past 20 years that has accomplished more.
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Do you genuinely believe that? Or are you just ignorant of recent Canadian history?
Trudeau's majorities accomplished all kinds of changes (for better or worse), not the least of which was the Constitution Act (1982) which gave us the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Granted, this occurred outside of your 20 year limit, but it's still fairly recent.
Mulroney's majorities signed the Free Trade Agreement with the United States, gave us the GST, ended the NEP, and introduced the Meech Lake and Charlottetown accords (which, after being approved by parliament, were defeated by the provincial legislatures in Manitoba & Newfoundland and the Canadian citizens in a national referendum, respectively).
Chretien's three majority governments balanced the budget, passed the Clarity Act, and expanded the previous FTA to include Mexico and became NAFTA. Additionally, it was with Chretien as PM that our armed forces got involved in the Afghanistan conflict and stayed out of the Iraq invasion.
Nobody is going to agree with everything that those governments accomplished, but compared to those three majorities, Harper's minority (and Martin's before it) hasn't really done all that much aside from maintain the status quo. Has this minority government been more productive than other minorities? Surely it accomplished more than Martin's 2004-2005 government, but it didn't pass a single piece of legislation as significant as the major contributions of Pearson's minority in the 60s which gave Canada universal healthcare, the CPP, and our national flag.