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Originally Posted by Firebot
Is there a reason why the graph doesn't show Justin Trudeau when he has been at the helm for 7 years now?
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There may be newer graphs out there, but these were to top hits that came up from my Google searches for this info. Also, I'm willing to give debt incurred as a response to the pandemic a bit of a pass since COVID was the biggest international crisis since WWII and all governments
everywhere were spending like crazy to prevent a total collapse of a functional society. In an alternate universe where Harper was PM at the time and took the same actions, I wouldn't be critical of that either.
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No one is speaking of Pierre Trudeau, and I see no one singing Mulroney's laurels here (quite the opposite in fact). We are also going quite far in the past there where a different economic world existed.
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The person I was responding to, and whose post I quoted, referenced Pierre Trudeau and mentioned how Conservatives had to come in to clean up messes left by previous Liberal governments.
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Of course, Justin Trudeau's numbers need to be taken with an asterix considering covid had a bigger short term financial impact than 2008. But even accounting with covid, Trudeau's spending and growing of government is abnormal.
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Not really. See opendoor's post above about Debt:GDP ratio.