Time for Trudeau to emulate Chrétien and slay the deficit

Ahead of the finance minister’s Nov. 21 economic update, he ought to take a lesson from Jean Chrétien’s fiscal restraint.

The current Liberal government has willingly created deficits, while the most laudable accomplishment of the government of former prime minister Jean Chrétien (along with the Clarity Act) was the reduction of accumulated government debt, argues columnist Andrew Caddell. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

November 7, 2018

OTTAWA—There was quite a party a couple weeks ago in Ottawa: longtime Liberals celebrated the 25th anniversary of the election of Jean Chrétien’s government, and the launch of the former prime minister’s book, My Stories, My Times. Although I couldn’t make it, I know man...

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