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Originally Posted by Fire
If we had the Liberals and NDP in charge during this recession, the deficit would have been a lot larger IMO.
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Hypothesis contrary to fact!
But I'll play along... if we, however, had the Liberals in charge for the
recession and the threee years prior, the deficit would be smaller.
During the recession, a Lib-NDP government wouldn't have been much different from the Cons, because the Cons had to doa lot of what the Libs/NDP wanted them to do anyways to avoid losing confidence. Sure, that makes them partly responsible for the stimulus
portion of the deficit, but then they also deserve credit for its effects.