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Originally Posted by Canada 02
You should get your facts straight. 1968, Trudeau takes power - Canada National debt less than $20B. When he left office in '84 it was ~$200B. The country was so heavily in debt that Mulroney had no choice but to implemented the GST just to pay the interest on all of Trudeau's over-spending
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Yes and Mulroney doubled the national debt in only 8 years spending more than Trudeau did in almost twenty. Get
your facts straight.
Besides, if Mulroney needed the tax to pay for all of Trudeau's mistakes why did he institute a full five years after he was first elected? Jeez murphy.