text: My. Had your blinkers on the last 15 years I see. Paul Martin's surplus was the result of robbing the EI fund. He intended on suing it to pay Kyoto obligations and to offer tax breaks. Harper used it for tax-breaks and to fulfil an election promise of reducing the gST. He also paid down $25B directly agains the federal debt in his first two years in office. During a minority parliament. During a war Chretien sent us to. And then he did go into debt during a world wide recession. During a minority parliament. When he got his majority government he eliminated the debt. and left Trudeau a surplus. Now Trudeau is running $20B a year deficits with no end in sight.
  
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