Brad Marsh: you've just described a person who's never had a real job his entire life. Now you can see that as a virtue, a career politician may make the best politician, but if you hold that view you would not be able to criticise politicians for being politicians because that's that experience you're valuing. Somehow I doubt that you see things that way.
On to your more substantive point that Canada weathered the economic crisis better than most OECD nations, do you not think the previous 15 years of governance was perhaps more important to seeing through that period? Granting that governments have relatively few reactive and effective levers to deal with things like financial meltdowns would the strong banking regulations, the strong balance sheet, and and effective fiscal framework developed by the Liberals be the more likely reason for seeing through the recession as well as we did?
I mean look at Harper's response to the crisis in the first wave. He first told Canadians it was a good buying opportunity, he then did nothing, and finally he was forced to enact a stimulus plan. I mean it takes a pretty myopic view of things to give that government alot of credit.
If you must give him credit, I assume you'll be holding him accountable if the economy goes bad, what with low oil prices, a singular fixation on the oil sector as an economic strategy, and the loose monetary conditions that have inflated assets into the bubble we're currently in?
That would, you know, be consistent.
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