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Old 03-19-2014, 09:34 PM   #24
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Originally Posted by SebC View Post
I, for one, disliked him.

- Surplus reduction, pre-recession: imprudent.
- GST cut: worst tax to cut.
- Predicting that Canada would avoid a recession and planning to not stimulate the economy until threatened with a non-confidence vote: moronic.
Completely agree about the GST cut being totally ill-advised, but the blame for that lies solely with Harper. Despite literally every economist in the country telling him it was a bad idea, he made reducing the GST a CPC campaign promise long before Flaherty was even named to cabinet.
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