Harper ran a deficit during a world recession so what is Trudeau's excuse for running a deficit much larger than promised during non-recessionary times. Trudeau has a deficit of almost $20 billion and no infrastructure spending yet, his deficits have no balancing dates except sometime in the 2050s it will magically balance itself, so what has Trudeau spent our $20 billion on other than trying to buy his way to a UN Security seat. As for Pheonix the Liberals are fully responsibile for that fiasco as they are the ones who chose to go live before all snags were all ironed out.

The stronger economy is due to the housing market and oil prices increasing and Harper's stimulus having fully filtered through the economy.