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Old 10-16-2015, 09:39 AM   #3608
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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction View Post
I would love to see a breakdown of the deficits he had. For example, how much of it was due to investment, revenue set backs from the economic collapse, stimulus injections, Afghanistan missions and/or tax cuts.

Deficits and surpluses are really hard to measure without getting into detail. Most of the talk during the economic down turn was how Canada weathered the storm better than most because of policies already implements before Harper. So where did the deficits actually come from?
IIRC, many of the Harper deficits would have been balanced/surplus budgets if he had left the GST at 7% like every economist in the country advised him to do.
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