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Originally Posted by Jade
And you may notice that the dispute to your claim was not that we do not have a deficit (operating on the pre-election budget anyway, since the liberals etc are trying to block the new one) but that the conservatives did not say they would not run a deficit.
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"We're not running a deficit. We have planned a realistic scenario. We've got conservative budget estimates. We've got a modest platform that doesn't even fill the existing fiscal room that we have and we have plenty of flexibility in how we phase it. So that's our policy.
We're not going into deficit." Steve Harper, October 2008
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This country will not go into recession next year and will lead the G-7 countries," Steve Harper, October 2008
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/...d-088ed126e8c1
It appears he did promise that we would not go into deficit and that we would not be in a recession next year.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNew...81005/20081005
"A Scotiabank report is forecasting recessions for both Canada and the United States that could last well into 2009."
We will have to wait to see if Harper broke his promise on the recession, but he already has on the deficit.