Jim Flaherty interviewed by Steve Maich for Canadian Business on the meaning of "fiscal conservative":
I think the key is to have a commitment to a balanced budget and to always be moving in that direction, to have a plan to be there, and to have the discipline to do it. ... I've certainly exercised that kind of discipline before at the provincial level in order to balance budgets...
Have I mentioned that I lived in Ontario during the Mike Harris years? They called it the Common Sense Revolution. They lied about that too.
H/t to Aaron Wherry.
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Flaherty is such a clueless moron. He's no doubt got in his head some idiotic notion that he was a deficit fighter, and all the facts and his own personal experiences are just too complicated.
He's also, no doubt again, vaguely aware that he's lying but that there are absolutely no penalties for huge lies in our political system.