The reviews are in

Lawrence Martin:

The opposition is getting pointed. The surplus Mr. Flaherty forecast last fall has, as of this week, turned into a projected $50-billion deficit. In the annals of Finance Department flip-flops, hairpin turns and staggering reversals, nothing quite compares.

The last time this country spilled this much red ink was in 1993, when the deficit reached $42-billion. It had taken the better part of two decades to get it jacked that high. Under these Tories, it has happened in the space of months.
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What grates, however, is what the Conservatives did to get us here. Even by modern standards of cynicism, the degree to which sound public policy was sacrificed at the altar of crass, exploitative politics has been something to behold.