Wow. I guess you are too young or just too dishonest to remember that Harper inherited a massive structural surplus from Paul Martin, who delivered NINE CONSECUTIVE SURPLUSES. Harper pi**ed is away in two years - BEFORE the financial crisis hit  - and the only reason we got through it as well as we did was because of what Martin had done to rebuild our finances and refuse calls to massively deregulate banks (Harper was one of loudest voices until after crisis he took credit for our strong banking system - lol) . Harper added over $150 BILLION to our national debt and ran exactly one surplus on his own "merit" which was engineered through one-time asset sales and was miniscule and not sustainable. Quite amazing the fantasy alternate realities that shallow right wing partisans can construct.