As you pointed out, there has been a change in the global economic circumstance in the course of the past few years. It's not surprising. I think every single member of Parliament took the position, correctly, supported by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, that indeed there should be government stimulus and that it was essential in the short term for the government to run a deficit. But running ads against Parliament to argue that we shouldn't have had stimulus during that period wouldn't have been rational.
On November 2nd, 2010. See this statement in context.