Harper was a good leader and guided us through some tumultuous times. Canada fared better than any other western nation during the economic meltdown of 2008/2009.Damn, I was enjoying my dinner, you mention Harper and now I want to wretch. What a piece of shit that man is.
That was more Flaherty’s doing than HArper’s.Harper was a good leader and guided us through some tumultuous times. Canada fared better than any other western nation during the economic meltdown of 2008/2009.
And who appointed Flaherty as Minister of Finance?That was more Flaherty’s doing than HArper’s.
Harper was a good leader and guided us through some tumultuous times. Canada fared better than any other western nation during the economic meltdown of 2008/2009.
What a load of tripe. Wouldn't expect anything less from the Guardian - they make the Toronto Star look far right. Under the Harper government the mortgage rules were actually tightened so as to avoid any replication of the US sub prime mortgage crisis.Lest we forget...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/15/stephen-harper-master-manipulator
On "leading" us through terrible times...Harper was fully committed to trying to cut budgets and program spending as the 2008-2009 recession was really beginning to bite. He was also supportive of reducing regulation of the financial sector and modelling housing finance after the American model. That would have been a disaster for Canada. Luckily, the G20 - at the "suggestion" of the US and UK, agreed to stimulate economies through budget deficits to the tune of 2% of their respective GDPs. Canada also reversed course and started to re-regulate the financial sector and housing finance once again at the suggestion of the G-20. All the key measures that were undertaken by Harper to "guide us" through tumultuous time came from the G-20 and other international forums and were measures that Harper actually opposed.
Justin Trudeau is self destructing in front of you. He just lost the man that does all of Justin's thinking.Lest we forget...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/15/stephen-harper-master-manipulator
On "leading" us through terrible times...Harper was fully committed to trying to cut budgets and program spending as the 2008-2009 recession was really beginning to bite. He was also supportive of reducing regulation of the financial sector and modelling housing finance after the American model. That would have been a disaster for Canada. Luckily, the G20 - at the "suggestion" of the US and UK, agreed to stimulate economies through budget deficits to the tune of 2% of their respective GDPs. Canada also reversed course and started to re-regulate the financial sector and housing finance once again at the suggestion of the G-20. All the key measures that were undertaken by Harper to "guide us" through tumultuous time came from the G-20 and other international forums and were measures that Harper actually opposed.
You can thank 3 people for that. 2 of them are liberals.Harper was a good leader and guided us through some tumultuous times. Canada fared better than any other western nation during the economic meltdown of 2008/2009.
Beat me to it.That was more Flaherty’s doing than HArper’s.
He merely rode the petrol wave and pretended it was his brilliant leadership. Harper was an assclown. His deal with China, the Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement[FONT="] , allows them to sue us for hampering their business investments ( like cancelling a pipeline), which is why Trudeau had to buy that pipeline to avoid being sued.[/FONT]Harper was a good leader and guided us through some tumultuous times. Canada fared better than any other western nation during the economic meltdown of 2008/2009.
Do not forget that Harper hardly got a deal when he went to India. All that he did was to ship some security vehicles at a huge taxpayer expense to India and then have it shipped back. Why....because he did not feel secure. He hardly negotiated any trade deals in all his years in power, and would have capitulated to Trump in a jiffy with the USMCA Trade Deal.He merely rode the petrol wave and pretended it was his brilliant leadership. Harper was an assclown. His deal with China, the Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement[FONT="] , allows them to sue us for hampering their business investments ( like cancelling a pipeline), which is why Trudeau had to buy that pipeline to avoid being sued.[/FONT]
Agreed, for both propositions. But if forced to a choice, better the well-intentioned bumbler than the unprincipled opportunist, no matter how wily.Yes JT is a disaster, but Harper, no thanks