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A good question.
IMHO, People the heck elected the current GOV. because that the majority voters are short-sighted and easy to be misled by scandal news, political propaganda of "tax cut", "budget cut", fiscal balance". Most of them hardly know anything about business cycle and care about short-term interests.
Within 2 years of the past election, they will realize sth going wrong:
pension age postponed up to 67, meaning that 15 years left, for a typical Canadian, to enjoy pension calculated based on the CA average age of 81;
tax cut effecitive immidiately for big corporations, but personals have to wait until fiscal balance;
fiscal balance, was planned to be achieved by 2015, yet a recent announcement by DoF suggests a one-year delay of this goal being achieved as global demand is weak;
...meaning working adults have to wait another year for their desired income tax benefit in 2016... well, 2016 will be another election year;
let alone to cut public expenditure during a fragile recovery is purely a harsh decision.
In short, the current administration 一点都不上档次,