Prime Minister Stephen Harper talks to a standing room crowd at Algoma’s Water Tower Inn on Tuesday night.

Amidst cheers of his last name and ‘four more years’, Prime Minister Stephen Harper spoke in Sault Ste. Marie on Tuesday night. Harper was campaigning for Sault MP Bryan Hayes and Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing candidate Andre Robichaud. In front of a standing room crowd at the Water Tower Inn, Harper talked about a number of topics with a particular focus on the economy. The Conservative leader spoke highly about how his government has been an ‘island of stability’ despite unrelenting shakiness in other countries since the economic crisis of 2008. Harper even took a swipe at the Wynne government and how they are attempting to balance Ontario’s books…

Harper also chided his opponents — NDP leader Tom Mulcair and Liberal leader Justin Trudeau — for their plans to tax and create ‘modest’ deficits to grow the Canadian economy. He also mentioned his campaign promise mentioned on Tuesday in Burlington to establish an advanced manufacturing hub in Canada that would be in his words, ‘a world-leading centre of excellence’. Despite falling stock markets, a weaker Canadian dollar and Canada being in a ‘technical recession’, Harper showed no signs of negativity stressing his party’s Economic Action Plan is working…

In addition to discussing his government’s economic results, Harper dismissed the alternatives from the Liberals and the N-D-P to create ‘modest’ deficits or tax in order to grow the economy. He announced an additional 80 billion dollar investment in national infrastructure over the next decade. Liberal leader Justin Trudeau had earlier mentioned an additional 60 billion over 10 years. The topic of terrorism was also discussed and Harper stressed the need for strong leadership in an increasingly dangerous world…

Harper added that putting brave young men and women in harm’s way one of the hard decisions a Prime Minister can make. He also talked about what Trudeau or Mulcair would do on the issue of terrorism. He says they would not call jihadist terrorism for what it is due to political correctness and that they could not be trusted to keep Canadians safe.