"Despite what the NDP and Liberals says, we cannot borrow or tax our way to prosperity."

he says that like prosperity is a thing we may have some day, rather than something that we already have.

it's just another example of a statement that's really meaningless nonsense. i mean, consider it applied in other circumstances, and tell me how much sense you think it makes.

"we cannot cheer our way into being dominant at hockey."
"we cannot consume our way into having ample amounts of fresh water reserves."
"we cannot freeze our way into being cold."

it's hard to argue with him a lot of the time, because he's often not expressing anything resembling a coherent thought. if canada is not a prosperous country, what country is?

i think it should be clear to everybody that we have prosperity already. and, what a government should be doing in a prosperous country is finding ways to take advantage of that prosperity in ways that benefit actual people.

the reason we're in a deficit in the first place is that he cut taxes too far relative to revenues. and, then he grew himself out of it. there's huge amounts of untapped prosperity. you can throw a dart at a wall of policy proposals.

www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-election-2015-conservative-party-platform-1.3264597