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Dashing Through the Snow Job—Deficit-Slashing 2012: Rod Taylor
While snows deepen on northern fields and our now-unnavigable rivers still course slowly toward the sea, the sea of red ink continues to rise in Ottawa. Our Finance Minister, though, has a jolly way of expounding on how much worse it could have been if Canada had not—with a grim determination and an eye to a prosperous future—faced the economic vicissitudes of recent years with the pragmatic and “flexible” response of borrowing billions of dollars.
It’s an Integrity Deficit: Rod Taylor
The year was 2008. Prime Minister Harper and Finance Minister Jim Flaherty were running for re-election. During the campaign, Mr. Harper said at least 5 times that the Canadian government, under his leadership would not go into deficit. Here were some of his campaign promises:
• “We’ll never go back into deficit” (Oct. 14, 2008 Toronto Star commentary)