text: Carmen.....What Trudeau  is doing is little more than common sense. A big exporter of oil, Canada is suffering a slump in investment thanks to low oil prices. Its economy needs a boost and, at a time of extraordinarily cheap credit, the government is borrowing more in order to support growth. Since the financial crisis, developed economies have insisted on running tight fiscal policy to reduce debt while relying on very low interest rates to stimulate demand. That strategy has been a failure...... Growth has been moderate and demand has not picked up sufficiently to lift interest rates from the floor. Canada is in a better position than almost any other rich country to take advantage of low rates......it didn't suffer a big downturn after the financial crisis,...thanks to Martin et al.....and it has a history of fiscal restraint.