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Originally Posted by Slava
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.
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So you agree that what he said was true but he should have sugar coated it?
People who sold their stocks took a beating, people who held their stocks (mostly) got their value back in the long run, people who bought did very well. Harper was encouraging people to hold and buy, that was good advice.
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Originally Posted by Slava
Or maybe take the chance to reassure people that the government would do what they could to limit the damages?
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Short of reimbursing people for losses I'm not sure what more the government could have done.