Dante, what will it take for you guys on the Left to end your incessant mischaracterization  of what occurred during the Great Recession?  Yes, the Tories spent massive sums to ensure that Canadians kept working during this period. Against their better judgement, and exactly as Keynsians would suggest. What was the alternative? Massive unemployment? Cuts in transfers to the provinces?  It was THE GREAT RECESSION. 

It is RIDICULOUS that you guys on the Left continue to go on about this, especially when the Left at the time (led by Iggy and Saint Jack) complained only that it wasn't MORE spending. Your talking points are EVEN MORE INANE when you consider that your Champion, Justin brags that he's hoping to spend about half those amounts annually, even when the Canadian and global economies are ticking along fine. 

I don't take your guys on the Left to be simpletons, but you sure act it when you keep banging this drum. 

C.