PC revisionism and APH reporting

Charlie Mayer, a cabinet minister under prime ministers Brian Mulroney and Kim Campbell, wrote in the National Post last week that, in contrast to the Liberals who in 1984 bequeathed a $37-billion budget deficit to the incoming Progressive Conservatives, the Conservatives when they relinquished power in 1993 left the incoming Liberals with a lower deficit.
He didn’t say how much that difference was.
That was probably a good thing because it would have destroyed his argument.
From what I co