What total and utter rubbish! Harper racked up $160 billion in deficits over his tenure and the only way that Flaherty was making the books look like they balanced by 2008 was by selling off taxpayer assets. The GST and corporate rate cuts guaranteed that he couldn't balance the books without draconian cuts which is what we saw from him over his last two to three years, culminating in a small theoretical surplus. Remember that hwe inherited $10+ billion year surpluses from the Liberals who had paid off $100 billion of federal debt.

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