when was the last time a federal conservative balanced a budget?

did diefenbaker do it? maybe i could call my grandmother and ask her...

zero credibility.

watch mulcair on this. and watch him win arguments on it, too.

www.cbc.ca/news/politics/liberal-trudeau-question-period-isis-1.3353871

nope.

"Dief was quick to fund social programs and farmers to win votes. And despite talking fiscal responsibility, he never managed to run a balanced budget. "

who was the conservative before diefenbaker? bennett? did he actually manage one, or did he just push austerity and contribute to the depression? 

RustBeltCAN
Conservatives have NEVER, ever been good stewards of our economy.

jessica murray
well, the budget has absolutely nothing to do with the economy, though.

i'm just pointing out that the ndp has more credibility, here. and that observers should expect mulcair to key in on that.

RustBeltCAN
bennet was a castrophy of mismanagement and corruption.

jessica murray
i'm still not sure if he pulled off a balanced budget or not, though.

Marc
Is Mulcair worth to be listenend to? NO.

jessica murray
well, if i cared about balanced budgets (and i don't...), i'd want to give somebody else a shot at it.

BrutalLogic
so that says a lot about Liberals does it not? You don't even care about balanced budgets! Let's just spend spend spend. Wait until we hit the wall. Notice how the currency plummeted as soon as it looked like Prince Charming would win? Notice did you how the TSX is going? Does not matter? We'll see when there is no tax revenue to pay for your handouts.

jessica murray
well, i wouldn't really call myself a liberal. i'm in the group of anarchist nutters trying to pull the spectrum to the left. the type that sees the liberals as the better half of bay street, and would certainly prefer them over the historical alternative, but is a good ten steps to their left.

and, no, i don't care about the tsx. unless you want to talk about transaction taxes.

but, regarding the conservatives running balanced budgets? fool me once, fool me...fool...how do i get to four with this thing?