Canada's Most Underated PM, The one who wasn't supposed to Win (user search)

As my name suggests I am talking about Stephen Harper, who I believe Post WW2 is the greatest PM of Canada. He has achieved significant wins on policy and became I believe the 5th longest serving PM of Canada more than Brian Mulroney and had he been there 5 more months more than Chretien. Had he won the 2015 election he woulda tied Pierre Trudeau with 4 election victories and been in very elite company. In 2003 he merged 2 right wing parties became party leader and in 2006 became the PM. Nobody thought this project would go through. Paul Martin was supposed to win even bigger majorities than chretien.

Now when it comes to his achievements: Number 1 is Childcare. Libs and NDP were always about a govt run natl daycare program. Harper believed the best policy was childcare tax credits. This credit is now so ingrained that Trudeau has not only continued it he has expanded it greatly. Harper against all conservative and economic orthodoxy cut the GST down from 7 to 5% to not only cut taxes but to starve the federal govt of revenues. He cut small business taxes including corporate down to 15%. He led the country out of the recession of 2009 better than any G7 country(there was a time when canada had a lower unemployment rate than the US back in 2010-2013 a feat that almost never happens). He did that all while increasing healthcare transfers to the provinces(so much for the liberal lies of he will privatize and americanize healthcare) while still returning the country to a surplus in 2015 and the plan was to use the surplus to cut the taxes most effecting people: cutting payroll taxes. The TFSA account was a great tool to save for retirement and to encourage saving overall. Not to mention income splitting and pension splitting to save on taxes.

On international policy, he expanded free trade from 5 trade deals to almost 50 trade deals including one with EU and TPP. He asserted that Canada should stop being a passive state and stand up for values along with our allies. He was Israel's strongest defender and took a ton of crap from our media for it. He opened the doors to a relationship with india that had been frosty since the days of Indira Gandhi. Trudeau has ruined that relationship with his shenanigans and inviting a murderer to a state dinner in india. But Harper even out of office has kept a great relationship with Modi and Bibi. While our crime laws are still weak he was the only pm to push through atleast some bills to fix the issue. He abolished the Natl gun registry eliminated the cdn wheat board. He did all this while having a minority govt for most of his tenure, a media that was downright hostile and partisan and branded him as a cold blooded dick cheney style evil person(something i believed till 2014). He no doubt responded with almost a nixonian secrecy but looking at the current scandals zoolander trudeau is embroiled in or the mulroney airbus scandal, the chretien martin sponsorship scandal, the harper years are now a beacon of good govt. Finally it was under harper that canada truly achieved natl unity. No govt program or forced bilingualism has ever worked but under harper the bloc was destroyed(and now its back) and western alienation was also defeated(and now its back big time). The state run propaganda communist machine of the CBC will paint him as an evil "american" something which sells in canada as a big insult but Harper was the best PM post ww2 and the fact that he now chairs the IDU, gets invited to speak on complex issues, and works with companies and govts demonstrates his skills in managing organizations thru an era of unprecedented environment. Canada was lucky to have him as the PM for 9 years!

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