You're entitled to your opinion of the Harper government, but Canada isn't a centrally planned economy, and the Prime Minister's comments don't play a role in c

You're entitled to your opinion of the Harper government, but Canada isn't a centrally planned economy, and the Prime Minister's comments don't play a role in capital allocation in the economy. You're pointing at a handful of politically charged decisions that play a vanishingly small role in the performance of the overall economy today. Besides, your statements are inaccurate. The Harper government spent more on municipal public transit than every other federal government in history combined. The Eglinton subway you cite isn't even funded by the federal government, it's funded by the Ontario government you claim Harper hated. You missed the Scarborough subway which runs entirely through Liberal ridings. Public transportation is a provincial responsibility and the Harper government was the first federal government to invest in it substantially, doling out billions for subways in Vancouver and Toronto and the Toronto government's SmartTrack program. I hope you realize the entire existing Toronto subway system was built without federal funding. I don't really want to defend the Harper government's track record on transportation, because I don't think they did enough, but trying to say that Canada lacks economic diversification because Harper didn't build enough subways is just ludicrous. Government program spending both in real $ and as a percentage of GDP are higher today than when Harper took office, although they've declined from the peak of the 2008 recession and stimulus program. Direct program expenditure by the federal government was 12.8% of GDP in 2005-06 and 12.9% in 2014-15. Cutting taxes doesn't mean cutting spending, if the economy is growing. The biggest cuts to government spending occurred during the 1990s as part of Chretien's deficit elimination program. Spending has only now recovered to the level of the mid-90s. This is all shown in Finance Canada's fiscal tables. I suggest you examine the numbers yourself rather than relying on newspaper editorials that cherry-pick examples.