Comment 62636

By thrillhouse (registered) | Posted April 24, 2011 at 16:38:07 in reply to Comment 62622

Is the point then that we should vote Liberal? I'm confused.

The pre-1984 numbers you give might lead small-government-types to think we should vote conservative, but everything post-1984 strongly indicates otherwise.

If anything, these numbers show that Chrétien and Martin were the best thing to happen for small government in Canada in one hell of a long time.

(You can tinker with the start and end dates a bit, and the numbers for Clark's government won't mean much due to its brevity, but I'm not sure what advocates of small government should read into your numbers otherwise.)

1963 [30.1%] - 1979 [40.9%] = Liberal government, dramatic increase

1979 [40.9%] - 1980 [42.4%] = Conservative government, minor increase

1980 [42.4%] - 1984 [47.8%] = Liberal government, marked increase

1984 [47.8%] - 1993 [53.9%] = Conservative government, marked increase

1993 [53.9%] - 2006 [41.1%] = Liberal government, dramatic decrease

2006 [41.1%] - 2008 [41.5%] = Conservative goverment, no significant change

Comment edited by thrillhouse on 2011-04-24 17:02:12

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