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Originally Posted by Jacks
What are you talking about?
What are these assets that were sold to balance the budget?
Are you talking about the GM shares? they are part of the current budget year.
Edit: When I was talking about 10 years I was referring to the Harper government dealing with all sorts of problems but still staying on track. That includes the financial meltdown and 2 oil collapses.
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The financial meltdown was weathered because of Martin's policies as finance minister. And we didn't survive 2 oil collapses, we are now in the only one that is really a lengthy 'collapse' (less than a year and didn't see much of a slowdown never mind mass layoffs). EI payouts and loss of tax revenue, subsequent fall of the dollar that was buoyed by oil prices, no growth in production halting most sectors of the industry altogether are all the effects of the oil collapse that definitely was not weathered.
They created problems for themselves regarding the budget and turned surpluses into deficits and are trying to pretend like they left a real surplus at the end of it all as they saw the driving force of the economy start coming to a standstill in ways not seen in a long, long time.