Baloney.They sold off  GM shares, deferred payments  and claimed savings from the Phoenix pay system they brought in and then laid off the people required to run it so that they could claim a wholly fictitious surplus.

Harper ran deficit after deficit but inflected the most damage in the last year or so as he tried desperate to present at least the illusion of a balanced budget for once.

 Whatever growth there was in the Harper years came from the Oil price bubble and the housing bubble. The economy is  just beginning to recover from the mismanagement of the Harper years.