surplus anyone?

so canada's surplus for the past year was a tidy 13.8 billion... a bit higher than what was estimated (by, um, 4.6 billion... chump change really...). ctv's report fails to mention the previous estimates (surprise, surprise...) and is almost gushing it its praise for harper and his gang. however, an interesting bit is that ctv allows comments on articles and the peanut gallery appears almost evenly split amongst those who say, 'kudos, hooray!' and those who say, 'damn hypocrites, when martin/chretien brought in massive surpluses they were thieves' or 'the surpluses are all thanks to martin's prudence, blah, blah, blah...'.