Flutterby™! : Government spending

More evidence that the "big government"/"small government" rhetorical split doesn't mean anything in practice:

MEI’s study examined government spending in Canada, Quebec and the U.S., dating back to the Pierre Trudeau, Robert Bourassa and Richard Nixon administrations respectively. “In all three cases,” reads the report, “it is actually left-wing governments that most reduced the relative size of government.”