Harper-speak

Stephen Harper, in Cambridge, this morning, told Canadians they should be pleased that his government has managed to keep the deficit at $50 billion, while lowering taxes. This is good, prudent financial management? The conservatives blew the budget surplus left by the previous government in an ill considered GST reduction that has had little impact on the average Canadian's life. They took a balanced budget, and ran it into deficit, all the while continuing their tax reduction plans and ran us into the hole even further, potentially to the tune of $134 billion, (according to TD Bank economists).

I will grant that we are in a major economic downturn worldwide, but the actions of our federal government haven't done much to mitigate the problem...