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Originally Posted by EddyBeers
"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
" 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...ion_081005/200
"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.
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Impressive how you have the year end numbers before the year is even over. Federal budgets are annual, not monthly, which is why we don't go through this once a month. Besides, not operating in a deficit means that based on projections when they put the budget together they were not expected to have a deficit. I don't know if they will have one in the end or not, I guess we'll see. As for the recession, we may be in the best position of the G7 countries, provided the political uncertainty resulting from this attempted power grab doesn't hurt us too much.