This is a clear indication of neoliberalism and neoconservatism at play in Harper’s economic vision.
A possibility of Harper being more economically neoconservative arises through his policy of “family tax cut” (Geddes, 2015, section “Taxes,” para. 1) which follows the social conservative idea of income splitting, yet Harper does not maintain the neoconservative spending restraint expected of a “free-market-orientated” (section “Spending,” para. 1) state that primarily controls the spending of security. For instance, the Harper government approved a bailout worth nine billion dollars of General Motors and Chrysler during the 2009 recession and injected $53-billion in the New Building Plan (Geddes, 2015, section “Taxes,” para. 1). Moreover,
A possibility of Harper being more economically neoconservative arises through his policy of “family tax cut” (Geddes, 2015, section “Taxes,” para. 1) which follows the social conservative idea of income splitting, yet Harper does not maintain the neoconservative spending restraint expected of a “free-market-orientated” (section “Spending,” para. 1) state that primarily controls the spending of security. For instance, the Harper government approved a bailout worth nine billion dollars of General Motors and Chrysler during the 2009 recession and injected $53-billion in the New Building Plan (Geddes, 2015, section “Taxes,” para. 1). Moreover,