XPost: bc.politics, can.politics   
   From: none@present.com   
      
   "Alan Baker"  wrote in message news:mgct3p$r02$1@news.datemas.de...   
      
   > On 2015-04-12 00:40:29 +0000, politicosage said:   
      
   > > After Oliver's speech, Liberal finance minister Scott Brison accused   
   > > Harper of "near toxic levels of hypocrisy" for touting a balanced budget   
   > > law after adding $150 billion to the national debt.   
   > >   
   > > Brison also took to Twitter to laud the past performances of Liberal   
   > > governments led by Chretien and former prime minister Paul Martin.   
   > > ____________________________________________   
   > >   
   > > Canada's debt pre-Harper government:     $ 492,761,460,274.00   
   > >   
   > > Canada's debt today:                                  $   
   > > 614,796,727,641.11   
   >   
   > Now correct for inflation...   
   >   
   > Canada's debt in 2006:  $ 492,761,460,274.00   
   >   
   > Canada's debt today in the same dollars: $572,150,806,651.48   
   >   
   > And remember there was a HUGE recession in 2008.   
      
   There is a huge difference between increasing the debt during an economic   
   crisis, like Harper, and increasing the debt because the sun rose, like   
   Trudeau.   
      
   And at the time, the Liberals were complaining that Harper should have been   
   spending more, not less.   
      
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