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Originally posted by Snakeeye@May 20 2005, 03:01 PM
However, when Mulroney did the same, it was an act of evil for which Canadians would never forgive the PC's.
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No kidding! (And I forgive them!).
The current Liberal government is a financial success based on:
1) The GST
2) Free-Trade legislation
3) A robust economy for most of the past decade.
The first two are entirely the doing of the Mulroney government. The third certainly has something to do with it...along with the expected business cycle.
Remember the Liberals were going to scrap the GST? So I guess people can hate the PCs forever over starting the GST, but don't realize the Liberals broke a HUGE election promise and are still...to this day....benefiting from the tax.
Also, I've heard stats before that Mulroney's governement enacted more laws per year than ANY other parliament EVER. The Senate shot down a few laws (four according to the poster above) but they were busy busy busy. Remember Charlottetown and Meetch Lake? Both attempted in less than 8 years, along with Free Trade, GST and several other constructive laws. And it was later found that Mulroney was guilty of nothing with the whole Air Bus "Scandal". He is unfairly dubbed as a crook and a bad guy. Great Prime Minister...one that I wasn't embarrassed of. And even the rest of the world (and the US) got along with him.
Who was it that said people don't like change? No kidding! It was a shock to people's systems. They prefer the Liberals, who have done essentially NOTHING in the past 12 years. Iraq? Defence? Health Care? Referrendums? Status quo my friends...nothing innovative at all. Oh right, Paul Martin balanced the budget, via PC policies and a good economy as I mentioned above.
Stupid Liberals!
Stupid Alliance.
I miss the PCs.