Former PM Harper blasts Liberal leadership candidate Carney’s economic record

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Harper says Carney taking undue credit for Canada’s 2008 recession recovery - National

Harper says in a letter to supporters that Carney is taking credit for 'hard calls' made by late Conservative finance minister Jim Flaherty during the 2008 financial crisis.

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Stephen Harper says Carney is taking credit for 'things he had little or nothing to do with'

Mark Carney is trying "to take credit for things he had little or nothing to do with," wrote former prime minister Stephen Harper.

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LILLEY: Harper slams Carney for taking credit for Flaherty's work

Former PM says he's disturbed that Carney is taking credit for the work of his late finance minister who can't even defend his own record.

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He accuses him of wrongly assigning the merit of having brought the Canadian economy out of the global financial crisis in 2008.

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Stephen Harper accuses Mark Carney of overselling his importance during 2008 financial crisis

Harper penned a fundraising letter to Conservatives Monday morning arguing Carney has been overselling what he did as Bank of Canada governor, responding to the 2008 financial crisis.

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Former PM Harper Criticizes Liberal Leadership Candidate Carney’s Economic Record

Former prime minister Stephen Harper is taking shots at Liberal leadership frontrunner Mark Carney’s economic record. Harper accuses Carney of taking unearned credit for steering the Canadian economy out of the global financial crisis more than 15 years ago. While Harper appointed Carney to run the Bank of Canada at the beginning of the 2008 financial crisis, he says it was then-finance minister Jim Flaherty who made the “hard calls.” Harper mak…