Original sentence: Under Stephen Harper, the platform of the Conservative Party was criticized as mirroring that of the Canadian Alliance more so than the Progressive Conservatives, emphasizing tax cuts, cuts to government spending, privatization, opposition to same-sex marriage, all this while the federal government runs a fiscal surplus
Edited sentence: Under Stephen Harper, the platform of the Conservative Party was criticized as mirroring that of the Canadian Alliance more so than the Progressive Conservatives, emphasizing tax cuts, cuts to government spending, privatization, opposition to same-sex marriage, all this while the federal government swims in money