I was going to flip out and go after you for saying canada was "boringly well run", but rhen I saw the time period you set and I agree with you totally.
Hard to imagine in 2007 the federal debt was only about 450B and we had seen years and years of not just balanced budgets but budget surpluses.
One piece of context a lot of people don't have for why Trudeau was able to get in the first time is that the liberals in the early 2000s we're just fine, they were the ones who balanced the budget (grounded with the base of cuts and tax increases under Mulroney) and people generally didn't have a huge problem. Even the thing that finally brought down that government was relatively quaint, unreasonable spending during the referendum to keep Quebec in canada. So with that piece of context, I'm sure a lot of people were thinking that they would be going back to the fairly boring mostly center sort of administration they saw back then. I have never voted for trudeau, but back in 2015 I would have for that exact reason. It never occurred to most people that the liberal party might be something completely different than it was just the next government over.
Hard to imagine in 2007 the federal debt was only about 450B and we had seen years and years of not just balanced budgets but budget surpluses.
One piece of context a lot of people don't have for why Trudeau was able to get in the first time is that the liberals in the early 2000s we're just fine, they were the ones who balanced the budget (grounded with the base of cuts and tax increases under Mulroney) and people generally didn't have a huge problem. Even the thing that finally brought down that government was relatively quaint, unreasonable spending during the referendum to keep Quebec in canada. So with that piece of context, I'm sure a lot of people were thinking that they would be going back to the fairly boring mostly center sort of administration they saw back then. I have never voted for trudeau, but back in 2015 I would have for that exact reason. It never occurred to most people that the liberal party might be something completely different than it was just the next government over.
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