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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Soon enough these young people will get their first experience witnessing the fine fiscal management of Conservatives, and their caring demeanor. As they say, Conservative times are tough times.
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Not sure how this statement can be taken seriously. The Liberals have had power for 75% of the last 30 years and there has been exactly one Conservative Prime Minister in that time, and under him the economy was relatively stable and saw the dollar at par with the US dollar for much of it. Canada was probably one of the countries least affected by the global financial crisis, and growth was modest, but stable.
Of course there were other issues with Harper's reign, but if we're focusing on the economy only, I'm not sure how you can say the statement above with a straight face.
I would think it's pretty easy to rank the regimes of the last 30 years as Chretien > Harper > Martin > Trudeau. Unfortunately for Canadians, I think PP will be much much closer to Trudeau than Chretien, but just trying to highlight that that hasn't necessarily been the case when you look at Canada's recent history.