Actually it was Harper who faced the worst financial crisis in 70 years and agreed, along with all G20 nations to flood the credit markets with liquidity for several years to prevent a depression.  Your leftist pals in the USA chose a slightly different route, printing $trillions in useless debt paper and buying it back themselves while still running huge deficits. While Liberal boot lickers in Canada were fawning over Obama, the annual US budget wreckage looked like this and Trudeau's will soon emulate it:

US Deficits in billions
2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	 
$161	$458	$1,413	$1,294	$1,295	$1,087	$679	$485	$438	$587