No Harper added $180 billion in new debt and $1110 billion of that was avoidable due to his GST cut....so we are now paying massive interest on that(even if rates are cheap); those are the facts as much as you might like to distort them.  You are correct, the other parties did insist he invest in infrastructure as did the economists...so that was a smart move.   Of course denying a recession was taking place despite overwhelming proof it was did not give one confidence.

 And yes, Trudeau is running deficits and they do not seem to have an end is sight which is not good either.