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Originally Posted by lozen
Correct me if I am wrong did not Justin promise a balanced budget?
Indeed he did, back in 2015. Before the pandemic. This situation basically played itself twice. Harper also promised balanced budgets repeatedly and failed to deliver. Harper also had a big crisis (did you know he had a 55 billion dollar deficit in 2009 post recession, much bigger than today's deficit and that was in 2009 dollars?). And guess what, it is highly unlikely that Poilievre will balance the budget despite promises to do so. Just like Ford. Let's call it an across the spectrum problem.
That said, the Liberals take a different tone. They have been clear for many years now that the primary metric they are using is NOT deficit vs no deficit. It is about debt as a percentage of the gdp, and keeping our numbers nice and healthy among peer countries, which they have done despite the pandemic. This is correct.