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Originally Posted by Dion
Borrowing money recklessly just to win an election seems to be the message i'm getting from Trudeau. Investing in infrastucture has to be done in a responable manner that doesn't incur heavy debt loads for future generations.
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Yeah and I don't disagree, but we're not talking about a huge debt. I mean $10B is more money than you or I could scrape together, but its nowhere near the deficits we've seen in the past 4-5 years either. With borrowing as cheap as it is today there isn't really a better time, and particularly when you factor in the current state of the economy.
Add in that many of the projects are definitely needs, and you have a pretty effective policy. Its purely my opinion, but Mulcair screwed this policy up. He has to try to explain how he will pay for all the goodies he's promising, and honestly, no one believes that he can balance the budget. Its akin to Harper in 2008 when he also took a deficit off the table (which was forced back on of course).