In defence of Conservative government’s stimulus spending

A Conservative government fighting with a conservative think tank makes for good political theatre. The important policy question is whether stimulus worked. It did.

TORONTO—It is not every day that a union economist comes to the defence of Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Finance Minister Jim Flaherty. But the two were right in calling the Fraser Institute's recent stimulus study "wrong."

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