I just don't understand the dishonesty here?   It took 9 years of budget surpluses under Chretien and Martin to reduce the debt by $90billion.  Handing the reins to Harper took all of that way and added an additional debt of $70 billion (in other words $160Billion).  And that is somehow called financial acumen to the hard right on here?  However they will not explain how that is.  

In 2006 Harper received a $13.8 billion surplus and two years later it was turned into a $5.8billion deficit. 

"At the end of 2014, Harper had the unemployment rate higher than at the end of 2008. The labour force participation rate was lower than in 2008. The employment rate (the percentage of the adult population employed) was lower than at the end of 2008. The youth unemployment rate was higher than at the end of 2008. The share of total employment made up of full-time jobs was less than in 2008 — and the quality of jobs had sunk to its lowest level in a quarter of a century."    

Yet you refute facts?