"The only one to ever deal with difficult external economic factors."

No one said the others didn't face difficult economic conditions - the high interest rates on Trudeau Père's record deficits were a killer.

Fortunately for them and unfortunately for us, the collapse in GDP in 2009 was the worst in 75 years - twice as bad as anything Trudeau faced, yet our deficit was less than ½ of Trudeau's 3 record deficits (3.5% of GDP Vs 7.5%, 7.7%, and 8.1% of GDP) - by your logic Harper should have run double digit deficits for multiple years. When Trudeau ran those record deficits we actually had positive GDP growth.

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