Why the Tories are on the attack

You would go on the negative attack, if this was your economic record:

...If we were going to have some kind of big crash or recession, we probably would have it by now, a year into the crisis

...We are in fact ahead of our budget forecast but there's no risk of deficit. We intend to maintain a surplus in the budget.

-Stephen Harper, September 15, 2008
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/afx/2008/09/15/afx5425336.html


Finance minister Jim Flaherty says this year's budget deficit will balloon beyond $50-billion, setting a new record for red ink in Canada as the costs of the recession hammer Ottawa's coffers.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/flaherty-pegs-deficit-at-50-billion/article1152864/