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Originally Posted by Slava
Harper has to be dreading this election. He is too close to the fixed date to step down and the bleeding just won't stop. Just yesterday it came to light that his brilliant economic stewardship has turned a possible surplus (which would have been the first in eight years) into a $1.5B deficit. That's at least partly as a result of the terrible income splitting they put in. The country is probably in recession and of course the increased UCCB was widely panned this week. At this point his only possibility is to drop the writ early so he can out spend his opponents and hope to paper over the problems.
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Yeah, I don't think that's going to help. See: Prentice, Jim.