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Liberals’ deficit plan to test Canadians’ rediscovered tolerance for debt

Adam Radwanski The Globe and Mail Campaigning as the Western world teetered on the brink of an economic collapse, the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada momentarily seemed to allow that if things got really dire, a government under his watch might not be able to balance the budget. By later the same day, back in 2008, Stéphane Dion was frantically backtracking. “A Liberal government will never, never cause a deficit,” he vowed. That a Liberal government is now poised to do just that, not reluctantly but as the honouring of a campaign commitment that helped bring it to… View Article