By er, uhm, by what...
Just a few of many things.....
- Getting the fiscal house in order
- 8 strait balanced budgets (First balanced budget in 50 years)
- creating a climate for job creation
- restoring funding for literacy programs
- creation of a prenatal nutrition program
- Winning the Quebec Referendum
- Billions paid down on the debt (Resulting in lower interest payments)
- The Clarity Act
- Largest Tax Cuts in Canadian history
- Billions added to health care funding
- Upholding the rights of all Canadians (regardless of sexual orientation)
The GST wasn't just some new tax that was pulled out of the air, it replaced the MST (%13.5). A lot of Conservative Alliance folks seem to conveniently forget that part of it. You all seem to have this revisionist history where if not for the GST the government wouldn't have had any revenue at all.
No, the acievements of the Liberals on fiscal policiy has everything to do with their sound fiscal management and little to do with the GST (I'm not asinine like Conservative Alliance folks, so I will say the GST had something to do with it, but not nearly the magic Mulroney bullet the CA's think)