Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and some of the provinces were able to offset the commodity - price
crash of 2014 - 15 with
deficit spending because Canada's
public finances were in excellent shape.
In 2010, George Osborne presented an austerity budget to the House of Commons claiming that the country faced an economic crisis with an unsustainable
public debt, then at 64 % of GDP, and a huge
deficit, and that this was the fault of the outgoing Labour government, which had caused the 2008 financial
crash due to profligate
public spending.