Day 49: September 18, 2015: Reasons NOT to Vote CON #'s 1201 to 1225

1201. Harper LIED about his job creation record!

1202. Harper could have avoided six consecutive deficits if he had stopped giving away tax breaks he couldn't afford to give, according to Dennis Howlett, Executive Director of Canadians for Tax Fairness.

1203. Harper lavishly spent $373,000, (including almost $17,600 on beverages including alcohol, $80,000 on receptions, and $106,400 on a motorcade), on a three-day visit by India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi. See why 800,000 Canadians use food banks!

1204. Harper's Finance Minister CON MP Joe Oliver's expensive travel costs undermine the CONs supposed fiscally responsible image.

1205. Harper is rapidly losing, (as at mid-September, 2015), his Conservative voter base.

1206. Harper LIE: he continually lied to Canadians about the acquisition costs of the F-35!

1207. Harper's former chief of staff, Nigel Wright, was on leave as a managing director of Onex Corp., which is one of Canada's most powerful corporate conglomerates. Onex Corp., which is headed by businessman Gerry Schwartz, owns Hawker Beechcraft Inc. It's a partner of Lockheed Martin, which is selling the F-35 fighter jets to the Canadian government.Wright was a director of Hawker Beechcraft. The acquisition of the F-35 was an arms length transaction!

1208. Harper's CON MP Maxime Bernier was sworn into cabinet as Foreign Affairs Minister with girlfriend Julie Couillard on his arm. She had reported past ties to biker gangs. A year later, Bernier was forced to resign as Foreign Affairs Minister after it was revealed that he had left classified NATO documents at Couillard’s home.

1209. Harper's Defence Minister, CON MP Peter MacKay, was caught using a Cormorant search and rescue helicopter in 2010 to pick him up from a private salmon fishing lodge on the Gander River in Newfoundland at an estimated cost of $16,000. The revelation came at a time when the Canadian Armed Forces’ top soldier, Walt Natynczyk, was under fire for using a military jet to get to a Caribbean family vacation. MacKay suspected he was set up by top Harper spin doctor Dimitri Soudas, according to evidence revealed in the Mike Duffy trial.

1210. Harper's 2015 Election platform is devoid of new ideas, according to the Globe & Mail.

1211. Harper LIED his way through the 2015 Election debate held on September 17, 2015. What was wrong with the moderator? The lies were OBVIOUS! Why didn't he call Harper on them? The moderator was as useless as screen doors on a submarine. Harper said the CONs have given adequate health care to refugees. NOT. He has refused cancer treatments and maternity care for them! Harper said the CONs have provided infrastructure funds to the cities. Say what? When Toronto pleaded for infrastructure money Baird is actually on record telling them to eff off! Harper blamed the job losses in Alberta on the NDP! They just got elected! That's like the GOP blaming Katrina losses on Obama! Harper actually said, "The opposition wants to open our borders to hundreds of thousands of refugees." NO Opposition Leader has asked for those settlement numbers. Justin's 25,000 has been the highest request. The moderator said, "Mr. Harper, is Mr. Trudeau on to something [with his infrastructure program]?" Harper, "Absolutely not." even though you could tell he wished he had thought of an Infrastructure Bank. So we can deem Harper lied there too. Finally, there is a First Nations hurting because Harper has refused to call an Inquiry. Yet he stops the debate before it could even start to mention the loss of 2-year-old Hayley. If Harper was truly sincere and not going for political points on that tragedy, why didn't he also offer condolences for her Dad? Cold. Extremely cold.

1212. Harper has helped mining companies plunder Africa.

1213. Harper does not know how to compromise.

1214. Harper's citizenship overhaul is heir to a chilling history of Canadian exclusion.

1215. Harper LIE: in the September 17, 2015 Election debate Harper said he has not taken health care away from immigrants and refugees. This Election Manual's Reason 977 states, "Harper's Minister of Immigration, CON MP Chris Alexander, demanded a two-tier health system in Canada, one for Canadians and one for refugees. Justice Anne Mactavish, who denounced the cuts to refugee health care as "cruel and unusual" treatment, particularly to the children of claimants who have sought refuge in Canada, stepped in and OVERRULED the CONs slashing of health care to refugees. In her 268-page decision, Mactavish said the slashes to refugee care put the health of children of refugee claimants at risk. Mactavish wrote, "The 2012 modifications to the Interim Federal Health Program potentially jeopardize the health, the safety and indeed the very lives, of these innocent and vulnerable children in a manner that shocks the conscience and outrages our standards of decency. It puts their lives at risk and perpetuates the stereotypical view that they are cheats and queue-jumpers, that their refugee claims are 'bogus,' and that they have come to Canada to abuse the generosity of Canadians. It serves to perpetuate the historical disadvantage suffered by members of an admittedly vulnerable, poor and disadvantaged group." According to Mactavish in her ruling, the CONs violated a section of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms."

1216. Harper SEGREGATION and EXCLUSION: in the September 17, 2015 Election debate Harper said that the refugee policy is something that new and "existing and old-stock Canadians agree with."

1217. Harper’s new Australian spin doctor is a raging anti-immigrant racist.

1218. Harper's Election '15 vote-buying goody bag: $870,000 for PEI community projects ... right after cutting Vets benefits!

1219. Harper's HYPOCRISY: he gutted Parks Canada then right after using the Nááts'ihch'oh National Park Reserve in the Northwest Territories as a photo op backdrop!

1220. Harper declares the slaughter of 15-year-old Native Girl  a 'Crime,' NOT a 'Sociological Phenomenon.'

1221. Harper BLEW $24,000,000 on a USELESS Keystone Pipeline Ad Campaign in the USA.

1222. Harper HYPOCRISY: Federal Finance Minister, CON MP Joe Oliver, ORDERED the Province of Ontario to get its books in order!

1223. Harper the HYPOCRITE, after LITERALLY DESTROYING Canada's science community for almost a decade, funded science projects IMMEDIATELY before the next election!

1224. Harper AGAIN, (August 21, 2014), REJECTED the renewed calls for a National Inquiry into Missing & Murdered Aboriginal Women after the brutal killing of Winnipeg's 15-year-old Tina Fontaine.

1225. Harper spent $11,500,000 WIPING OUT Canadian pot crops, thereby OPENING UP THE SUPPLY for the murderous Mexican and Colombian cartels!

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