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Originally Posted by Jacks
Nice deflection. What would you prefer that he said about the stock market at the time?
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There's no deflection there? He could show some sympathy with people who lost tonnes of money, jobs, businesses, etc. You know, a little compassion for a significant piece of the population that he represents. Or maybe take the chance to reassure people that the government would do what they could to limit the damages?
The thing is that for all of the times we hear about the economic prowess of Harper, I can't get past that point; it was clear that there were deeper economic issues and rather than take prudent action he instead takes away one of his options. That might seem like no big deal, but as soon as he said it there were economists coming out and criticizing that stance. Harper is supposed to be an economist, so he either knew full well and chose otherwise or didn't know.