Harper says Carney taking undue credit for Canadas 2008 recession recovery – National [Video]

Former prime minister Stephen Harper says Mark Carney is unfairly taking credit for the previous Conservative government’s economic record as he campaigns in the Liberal leadership race to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

In a letter to Conservative supporters emailed by the party, Harper says Carney, who served as governor of the Bank of Canada during the 2008 global financial crisis, did not oversee the day-to-day management of the economy during that time.

Rather, he says it was the late finance minister Jim Flaherty, whose record Harper seeks to defend in the letter.

“I have listened, with increasing disbelief, to Mark Carney’s attempts to take credit for things he had little or nothing to do with back then,” Harper writes.

“He has been doing this at the expense of the late Jim Flaherty, among the greatest Finance Ministers in Canada’s history, who sadly is not here to defend his record. But let me be very clear: …