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Old 07-28-2015, 11:06 AM   #564
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Wait, your view is that the Canadian federal government did a poor job of handling the 2008 economic crisis? And a bunch of people saw it coming and it was conservative gut instinct that led to their having blinders on not seeing it coming as well? And you're complaining about their revisionist history?

Good lord.
That's not what I said at all. The Conservatives originally rejected the proposed economic action plan that they now take credit for. So yes, the federal government handled it well, but to claim that somehow Harper has a good track record of handling recessions is absurd. Without the opposition parties threatening to form a coalition government, many of those measures wouldn't have passed.

And there were warnings as early as 2006 that an economic collapse was coming.
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