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Re:Canada’s $6.9B Wildfire Is the Size of Delaware and Still... by dleslie on Friday June 03, 2016 @06:14PM (#11833663)
In a historical sense, Canadian dollar isn't particularly low, at least not so low that I would call it "massive flooring". [0][1]

Canada's unemployment rate of 7.1% is normal. [2]

0: The 80s were turbulent: http://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/map-history-dollar/

1: There was a spike and collapse where you'd recently expect: http://www.profitconfidential.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12...

2: Historical unemployment data: http://well-being.esdc.gc.ca/misme-iowb/[email protected]...

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Re:Canada’s $6.9B Wildfire Is the Size of Delaware and Still... by MustardTiger on Saturday June 04, 2016 @08:03AM (#11836027)
>In a historical sense, Canadian dollar isn't particularly low, at least not so low that I would call it "massive flooring".

There was only one period of history where we were this badly fucked. And that was when this idiot's father was PM and destroyed our economy. It took 3 decades to pay back the debt he created and have our dollar recover. And now it is happening again.

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Re:Canada’s $6.9B Wildfire Is the Size of Delaware and Still... by dleslie on Saturday June 04, 2016 @02:15PM (#11837302)
It happened again, already. Harper contributed the largest deficits and the biggest total new debt of any PM; and he started -before- the 2008 crisis.
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Re:Canada’s $6.9B Wildfire Is the Size of Delaware and Still... by MustardTiger on Saturday June 04, 2016 @09:14PM (#11839151)
>Harper contributed the largest deficits and the biggest total new debt of any PM;

Neither of those statements are correct. Do leftists seriously just make up nonsense because they like the way it sounds?

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Re:Canada’s $6.9B Wildfire Is the Size of Delaware and Still... by dleslie on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @03:14PM (#11904535)
My apologies, Mulroney was worse[0]; as a conservative I tend to block Mulroney from my memory. At the time of Harper's 2008 budget, a deficit budget and the first of his majority government, the Canadian economy was being lauded internationally for its resilience in spite of the American collapse.

0: http://www.canadaka.net/forums/federal-elections-f43/trudeau...

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