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Originally Posted by PsYcNeT
Please remove your head from the Sun News Media echo chamber and read what "progressive" means.
Hint: It has very little to do with fiscal policy, and has no inherent conflict with slashing budgets or decommissioning programs.
Also, assuming that everyones politics fall along a linear political spectrum "HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT FAR RIGHT FISCAL MEASURES BUT STILL LIKE THE LIBERALSS???" is pretty stupid.
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Yes.
Chretien cut well over 20,000 from the federal bureaucracy. While seemingly quite harsh, it was what was probably needed at the time in an overly bloated federal government, which delivers few actual front line services compared to provincial or municipal governments.
In his first few years, during the same era, Bill Clinton as President had cut well over 100,000 federal positions in order to reduce the massive deficit.