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Old 08-09-2011, 12:39 PM  
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Originally Posted by dyna mo View Post
10 years.


Standard & Poor's took away Canada's AAA rating on debt denominated in foreign currencies in 1992.

But Ottawa recovered the grade in 2002 after reducing government spending as a fraction of GDP by more than eight percent, through a series of stringent spending cuts.
it was under 10 years
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