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Mark Carney,
a senior advisor to the Trudeau government since 2020, is now trying to disown Trudeau’s disastrous fiscal and economic record and instead latch on to the much stronger record of a previous Liberal government. “It was my privilege to work with Paul Martin when he balanced the books — and kept the books balanced,” Carney
said last week.
Nice try, Mr. Carney. Not only should Canadians refuse to let Carney off the hook for his negative contributions to the Trudeau economy, but going back to the Paul Martin days, Carney wasn’t appointed Senior Associate Deputy Minister of Finance until November 2004 —
nearly a decade after the Chrétien-Martin budget of 1995-96 which set Canada on the path out of its debt crisis and
well after that government balanced the budget in 1997-98.
Carney's budgets accounting tricks, tax plans opposite of deficit slaying former prime minister
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During the 2008-09 financial crisis, Carney worked with Harper and the late Jim Flaherty, then the finance minister, on Canada’s response. Carney has tried to use that experience to say that this makes him the man for this moment in the face of Trump’s tariff threat.
“Carney’s experience is NOT the day-to-day management of Canada’s economy during the global financial crisis,” former Canadian PM Harper writes.
There’s no doubt that Carney was part of a team, but anyone who knows how the government functions, knows that Carney’s role would have been the smallest of the three men. Carney focused on interest rates and inflation, but the main decisions around stimulus, where to spend and where to cut were all made by Harper and Flaherty.
In letter to Conservative Party members, Stephen Harper says Mark Carney is taking credit for work he didn't do in the financial crisis.
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“I have listened, with increasing disbelief, to Mark Carney’s attempts to take credit for things he had little or nothing to do with back then. He has been doing this at the expense of the late Jim Flaherty, among the greatest Finance Ministers in Canada’s history, who sadly is not here to defend his record,” Harper’s letter states.
“But let me be very clear: the hard calls during the 2008-2009 global financial crisis were made by Jim.”