The leftist media endlessly played the angle that “Harper is heartless because he won’t spend money to bail out the free-spending Provinces, like Ontario” (though of course they didn’t outright say that).
See? Try to be responsible and spend money sensibly, and our media ridicules you as “mean”. It virtually guarantees that the big-promisers always get elected, so there’s no incentive to plan or budget cuz you’ll just get thrown out of office. Gov’t giveaways, that the key to electoral success in Canada.
Canada is hopeless.
“...”Liberalism” in US is more similar to Conservatism in Canada. Conservatism in the US is something we simply don’t have in Canada... our most right wing party would still be considered Liberal by US standards. Our most left wing party (NDP) which has the popular support of about 35% of the country would be considered pure socialists in the US.