They are borrowing a ridiculous amount of money with no plan to pay it back to try and buy votes, one of his biggest items, child care! (that'll help create middle class jobs and compete with the US). I think governments should be spending *LESS* money, not more. It's easy to take shots at Harper, who had governed through the worse recession since the 1930's. I don't see a clear cause and effect relationship between current economic success and the governing party. They are making it more difficult for natural resource exporters to do business, and the full effects of the carbon tax which the US lacks haven't been felt yet. Ask Alberta and Saskatchewan residents if "the unemployment rate fell to its lowest point in nearly nine years" there. Those provinces don't have a well diversified manufacturing base due to their isolation, and import all sorts of things from Ontario. The higher dollar will hurt Canada as a net exporter.