Conservative leader Stephen Harper makes a campaign stop in London, Ontario, on Wednesday, August 19, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick THE CANADIAN PRESS
The election week that was: How do you balance a budget?
Aaron Wherry on seven days on the campaign trail
With politics practised at such a fervent pace, every week of an election campaign is its own epic. So, every Friday, we’ll sit down and attempt to understand what we just saw and heard. This week: How should we think about balancing the federal budget?
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