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Originally Posted by SebC
You quoted the part of my post that deals with this, yet chose to ignore it. Awesome. Yes, the government should be in deficit spending right now. Stimulus spending. What they should not have done is attacked the surplus before the recession, thus making the deficit higher than it needed to be after stimulus.
Allow me to rephrase... a Prime Minister who had de facto lost the confidence of the House of Commons proroguing parliament to avoid a confidence vote set a bad precendent that can never be erased from history. There's nothing revisionist about that.
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Chretien prorogued Parliament to avoid Sheila Fraser's report on the Sponsorship Scandal. He also canceled the Somalia Inquiry to avoid revelations from the incident that would have damaged his government's credibility.
Paul Martin cancelled opposition days repeatedly during his minority tenure.
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