Toronto Star Editorial: PM’s actions, words at odds

[tuvor]

When Prime Minister Stephen Harper shut down Parliament for three months to prepare this year’s budget, he told Canadians he was “recalibrating the government’s agenda.” It was time to switch from stimulus to restraint, he said.

In his March budget, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty did lay out a rigorous plan to eliminate Ottawa’s $56 billion deficit in five years. “Canada has returned to economic growth following the deepest global economic recession since the 1930s,” he said. “In this budget we will take action to ensure the government lives within its means.”

But since then the Conservatives have running up some eye-popping bills.

They spent $1.2 billion to host world leaders for a weekend in June. The original price tag was $179 million.

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http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/842900--pm-s-actions-words-at-odds

[Spazito]

1. Typically 'conservative', talk restraint while growing the debt...

Harper and his cabal are well on their way to matching the deficit/debt hole Mulroney left Canada in when his government was thrown out of office and his party decimated.