I'm developing a grudging admiration for JT. Going into this "lion's den" of Town Hall meetings was a big political risk that he didn't need to take, and he has acquitted himself well. Something to do with his experience in boxing perhaps. And his rhetoric on the oil sands and pipelines has visibly softened since he became PM.  Definitely a welcome change from his limp response to Obama's punitive insult to Canada over Keystone. 

On the issue of the $30billion deficit, however.......