Maybe, but the Liberals seemed to have learned something from the 90’s, and at least until Trudeau have been fiscally to the right of the RINOs. Chretien balanced more federal budgets than the Republicans have from their inception.
True, but Chrétien had no choice in the matter. He was elected on a platform of free daycare and prescription meds for all but ended up slashing spending because Canada ran out of other people’s money. It was an object lesson about how the most important aspect of democracy is not getting the right people into power, it’s about making the wrong people do the right thing.