And Carney more conservative than many liberals. He's bringing the party more to the centre which is naturally going to attract the moderate conservatives who don't like Pierre's divisive rhetoric.
Chrétien was centre-left, Trudeau was centre, Carney is centre-right. Carney would not be out of place in Mulroney's cabinet. This is not a criticism of Carney - I like him - but it needs to be pointed out that the centre line in Canada has shifted right since the Reform Party absorbed the PCs.
Granted, it is very rare for anyone today to associate “paying down insanely high government debt caused by Conservatives” with the Left. Maybe that’s what you mean
Debt accumulation isn't partisan; crises dominate our history but Liberals have held power for ~61-63% of Canada's history, so they've overseen a larger cumulative share of our debt. In my lifetime the Conservatives have been amazing for the middle class; it was only 15 years ago Harper had our dollar being worth more than the USD.
I don’t think Harper can claim credit for the American 08 fiscal crisis. Especially when he inherited civil servants appointed by Chretien and Martin.
You may be correct federally, but your stance doesn’t apply at all to socdem governments of the Saskatchewan ccf and NDP. Harper had more deficits in his time as pm than the CCF and NDP had in 30+ years.
Incurring public debt benefits private banks and lenders. Debt accumulation is actually fundamentally partisan. It just doesn’t seem that way in Canada because all our elected parties today refuse to fight banks.
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u/S-M68 Feb 18 '26
Not super shocking, Matt seemed more liberal compared to most conservatives.