premise: History will no doubt properly credit him and his government for their courage and foresight, initiatives such as the free trade agreement with the United States and NAFTA, abolishing the 13.5-per-cent manufacturers sales tax and introducing the 7-per-cent GST consumption tax to spur exports.
hypothesis: It says history will no doubt properly credit him, which implies that the narrator is very confident that history is going to properly credit him.
reason: It says that the history is going to no doubt credit him, which expresses high confidence.