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Originally Posted by MarchHare
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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They are top hits, because they are regurgitated 2015 graphs that were created pre-election and continues to be shared on platforms like reddit and twitter as a counter to conservatives being 'fiscally responsible'. There are newer charts, but they are only done by Fraser Institute which immediately gets called in question as biased (yet we continue to circulate a 2015 graph).
Harper governed under the biggest credit crisis since the great depression where the banking system was in danger of collapsing.
There's Asterix for spending that both Harper and Trudeau have required to undertake (and these spending habits have been.
If you are going to give Trudeau a pass due to covid (as he should), Harper does as well for a few years, but only for amounts relating to both crisis. Trudeau's spending was an issue before covid (and the past 2 years).