Quote:
Originally Posted by heep223
Ok.
The Federal Conservative government was leading our country, and navigated us through the worst financial collapse since the great depression and then subsequently balanced our budget. You can rationalize all you want but that is a fact.
Listen I voted Liberal because Harper and the boys were getting way too socially conservative for our country and I disagreed with almost all of their social policy. But you can't argue that they didn't do a good job with the economy from 2006-2015 during a very difficult macro environment.
|
And what do we have now?
It's a big deficit, no doubt. Personally I don't think it can be judged until we're through this energy crisis.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jacks
Well we all know that the Cons are horrible debt mongers, we need the Liberals to come in and clean up the mess and get us back to surpluses. That was the narritave a year ago right?
Then the narrative became that we need to run small deficits.
Now the narritive is that we need to run huge deficits.
|
It's almost like during that time period our highest value export was trending down hard. Should their plans not have adjusted based on what is happening?