The increase in unemployment is Obama's fault as much as the recession in Canada is Harper's fault, ie. not really.
I don’t blame Harper for the current economic downturn, that is worldwide. However, I do blame Harper for the deficit. Harper inherited big surpluses. When he came to office, he blew it all away to give tax cuts of doubtful effectiveness. The surplus was down to almost zero even before the downturn started. I remember Harper had gone into deficit for a three month period, only to go back into the surplus again.
If Harper had kept on with the healthy surplus he inherited and had not blown it all away on tax cuts, we would have had much lower deficits that we do today. Harper essentially did the same thing as Bush, only he did not go to the extreme that Bush did. Bush converted huge surplus into huge deficits to give tax cuts, Harper did not go into deficit, he merely blew away all the surplus.
