O’Toole’s deficit promise needs a reality check
Conservative politicians are notorious for talking mock-war on the deficit while in opposition, only to discover the joys of deficit spending when they get their hands on the cash.

HALIFAX—How fitting that an absurd CPC leadership convention, where the party that wants to run the economy demonstrated that arithmetic is a problem, should be followed so rapidly by a ludicrous promise from the winner.
Even without the dead-on-arrival victory of Erin O’Toole at the end of a f...
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