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Had a tab open of Pierre's twitter from last week and saw he actually posted some data instead of a slogan.
Conservative supporters has gotten so stupid lately it's actually kind of concerning. The chart clearly shows Harper was terrible and by far the best for that metric was Chrétien.
In case anyone forgot the dates.
https://lop.parl.ca/sites/ParlInfo/default/en_CA/People/primeMinisters
As a non Canadian, can someone tell me what Harper was like, and what he did to halt your industry growth? Or was it just that the recession hit in ~2008 and they had no recovery plans?
Canada was almost unaffected by the 2008 crisis. Harper was a hardline old-school conservative. I don't remember everything, but I remember he favoured tax cuts for those who needed them the least and the fossil fuel industry, he tried his darndest to kill all government-funded science, and he really hated CBC/Radio-Canada, a state-funded media group, and reduced their funding significantly.
If Trump is emotional, chaotic evil, Harper is smart, calculated evil.
He also rebranded it the Harper Government in all government ads and communications.