OldAndShouldKnowBetter - proving once again that alt-facts and a disdain for data based policy making isn't just a Trump thing.

https://www.fin.gc.ca/frt-trf/2016/frt-trf-16-eng.pdf

Biggest deficit in Canada's history was PET's last at 8.1% of GDP, and that was without a recession!

Worst Fiscal record in 80 years was PET's structural deficit that took 22 years and a LOT of austerity to turn around.

Record debt is the current incumbent, and he has promised to send it high, unless you mean record debt/ GDP which was Paul Martin.

$160BN in the worst financial crisis in 75 years is doing a good job - JT would be  running around $250 BN under similar circumstances.