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Originally Posted by Cuz
Surely you're old enough to have lived through both Kim Campbell and Paul Martin?
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Kim Campbell was a lame duck who didn't spend enough time in office to accomplish anything (good or bad). She ran a terrible campaign that saw her party decimated at the polls, but most of the blame for that can be attributed to how unpopular the PCs were after the Mulroney years.
Paul Martin could have been a great PM were he not handcuffed by Chretien's scandals. Even still, he leaves a legacy of his three years in office a history of balanced budgets, economic growth, and the nation-wide legalization of gay marriage.
Harper, on the other hand, has overseen the regression of Canada in more ways than I can enumerate. Just off the top of my head, here are the ways in which he has been worse than both Campbell and Martin:
- The "war on science"
- Scrapping the long-form census against the advice of the nation's chief statistician
- 2% reduction of the GST against the advice of every economist in the country
- Erosion of civil liberties, increased spying on Canadian citizens (Bill C-51)
- Income splitting that only really benefits wealthy couples with a stay-at-home parent
- A "tough on crime" agenda with mandatory minimum sentencing (Bill C-10) that even far-right Republicans in the US admit is a failed policy