The complaint from many critics is that Harper has reduced taxes to create the general conditions favourable to businesses, but he has pursued a laissez faire approach, leaving the economy, at best, becalmed.
This, it seems to me, is partly political and partly personal.
The Conservative government has reduced corporate taxes from 22 per cent to 15 per cent federally; has cut small business taxes; eliminated tariffs on manufacturing equipment; and, concluded a series of trade agreements.