Jokey, that's straight flat out bullshyte. ChRETIeN did sweet bugger all about the budget. Martin did it.I think we were right to go into Afghanistan, Goober. Taliban (which was sheltering Al Qaeda) needed to be taken out. It was the right decision and it still is.
Hey, nobody said it is easy to balance the budget. Government must take tough decisions, must cause pain if it is going to eliminate the deficit. Chrétien did just the right thing. His detractors speak from both sides of their mouths. If he had not got rid of the deficit, I am sure they would be the first to condemn him as another Mulroney, for not getting rid of the deficit. Since he got rid of the deficit, his critics don’t like the way he did it, big deal. Balancing the budget is a messy, unpleasant, unpopular job. People are going to complain.
Indeed, if people like you didn’t complain as a result of balancing the budget, then one has to wonder, how come he balanced the budget without getting anybody mad at him? Did he really balance the budget, or was it all smoke and mirrors?
So balancing the budget is never pleasant, it is going to make some people mad. But he had the courage to do it, Mulroney didn’t.
And it is nonsense to say that economic recovery had started before Liberals came into power. Kim Campbell wouldn’t answer the simple question ‘what is the deficit’ time and again. Deficit was skyrocketing when Chrétien came to power. I remember when Martin proclaimed that he will balance the budget in a few years, reporters plainly were skeptical, they did not believe him. They kept asking him what happens if he could not balance the budget. To which his confident reply was, ‘we will balance it’.
Economy was very much on life support when Chrétien came to power, he is the one who rescued it. It was not a coincidence that Canadians gave him three back to back majorities.
I did not say that he saved the country. What I said was that he gets some of the credit for saving the country (just as he would get some of the blame if the referendum had gone the other way).
And only a fraction of voters gave him majorities, not all Canadians.
Keep twisting the facts, Peewee, you only show what a fool you are.
Anyway, the Queen honoring ChRETIeN is as much of a joke as would be G. Dumbya getting a humanitarian award.