Day 11: August 12, 2015: Reasons NOT to Vote CON #'s 251 to 275

251. Harper shut down Parliament TWICE! One of Harper's election promises was more accountability. What a lie. What a crock. Despite his PROMISE, Harper prorogued Parliament twice. He did it the first time to block an inquiry into Afghan detainees. He prorogued Parliament the second time to avoid a vote of non-confidence which he knew he would lose.

252. Harper pledges $9,000,000 to the fight for religious freedoms in the Middle East, another politicizing tactic for Election 2015, because Harper NEVER mentioned this commitment until August, 2015, years after it has been an issue. Conversely, Harper closed nine Veterans Affairs offices in seven provinces by the end of February 2014, located in Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador; Charlottetown, P.E.I.; Sydney, N.S.; Windsor, Ont.; Thunder Bay, Ont.; Brandon, Man.; Saskatoon, Sask.; Kelowna, B.C.; and Prince George, B.C. saving the Harper Government an estimated $3,780,000. Doesn't charity begin at home first? Religious Freedom over Veterans Services! What does Harper think all those Veterans went abroad to fight for?

LINK to the $9,000,000 pledge

LINK to the $3,780,000 screwing of Canadian Veterans out of localized Services

253. The UN General Assembly unanimously passed a resolution on July 28, 2010 recognizing the right to water and sanitation. 122 countries voted in favour of the resolution, no country opposed the resolution, and Harper's Canada ABSTAINED! Is it any wonder Canada is an embarrassment on the World Stage? This abstaining from the vote showed Harper does not believe everyone in this world should be free from their own excrement! This truth was soon revealed to the World when it was learned Harper had ignored a State of Emergency in Attawapiskat, Manitoba for months. The news bulletin included the case of a young girl having to dump a bucket of her own excrement in a ditch outside her home every time she moved her bowels. In his 2010 budget, Harper allocated $330,000,000 million over two years for the First Nation Water and Wastewater Action plan, (FNWWAP). Where did this money go? Was it mismanaged? Why didn't this little girl get a toilet instead of the unhealthy and despicable chore of handling her bowel movements? Harper hides as much of his spending as he can, making the Harper Government spending of hard-earned Canadian Taxpayers' dollars all but impossible to check. $3,100,000,000, (yes, billion), has been reported missing from the Treasury, unaccounted for! This magnifies Harper's transparency and accountability lie, explaining why he is resorting to racism, bigotry, fear and terror as his Election 2015 platform: to cover his complete lack of governance. Harper is a joke Canada!

254. On November 18, 2007, Chalk River's nuclear reactor was shut down for routine maintenance and inspection. It was immediately discovered that the safety risk at this nuclear reactor was 1,000 times higher than acceptable. Based on this hazard, the President of Canada's Nuclear Safety Commission, Linda Keen, ordered it shut down temporarily to repair and restore the reactor to accepted safety levels; to meet industry safety standards. Keen said, "Canadians should not have to choose between nuclear safety and medical isotopes." Her decision came from some very sad historical experience at this site. There had already been two nuclear accidents at Chalk River, subsequently killing many of the clean-up crew from radiation-induced cancers. The exact number of Canadians who died from this radiation was never known: the government never conducted medical follow-up. 600 Canadians were on those clean-up crews. Now get this! Through a Parliamentary vote, Harper forced the re-opening of the nuclear reactors! Keen refused. Harper fired her for not following the directives of Members of Parliament who Harper apparently deemed were more expert than Keen on nuclear reactors. Reports said it did not help Linda that she was also a Liberal supporter. Harper forced the reactors to start up and on December 5, 2008, heavy water containing tritium leaked from the reactor. Evidently, Keen had been right! Harper had caused a nuclear accident at Chalk River. Thankfully, the spill was contained. Considering Harper could have been responsible for a major nuclear accident, how dangerous could his lust for power and control have been to Canadians living near and downwind from the Chalk River nuclear reactor?

255. Harper soundly criticized Canadian singer Neil Young for caring about the First Nations Canadians dying from Tar Sands cancers. Neil Young had held his Honour the Treaties Tour, which included four shows in Toronto, Regina, Winnipeg and Calgary. Proceeds of the sold-out concerts went toward helping to defray the legal costs of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation in their justice battles against the Tar Sands. Neil Young said, “Fort McMurray looks like Hiroshima. Fort McMurray is a wasteland. The fuel’s all over, the fumes everywhere, you can smell it when you get to town. The closest place to Fort McMurray that is doing the Tar Sands work is 25 or 30 miles out of town and you can taste it when you get to Fort McMurray. People are sick. People are dying of cancer because of this. All the First Nations people up there are threatened by this.” Additionally, in a press conference, Young accused the Harper Government of breaking its promise to First Nations.

256. In her endless quest to understand Harper, a Concerned Canadian lists the things Harper hates in a very hard-hitting Letter to the Editor.

257. Harper the Bubble Boy.  Tasha Kheiriddin of iPolitics has fittingly monikering harper with that nickname to represent his refusal to mix with Canadians any longer. In an article she writes, “Bubble Boy” has become synonymous with anyone who isolates him or herself to avoid contamination by the outside world. It has figured prominently in pop culture, serving as the title of two movies and an episode of TV’s “Seinfeld”. But it has rarely been applied to politicians, especially Canadian ones — until now.voters have never seen a campaign as closed and isolationist as the one being conducted by the Conservative party this year. Events are by invitation only; attendees are screened by the party and issued tickets.Tories feel they’re under no obligation to hold public events. In other words, if you’re just Joe or Jane Q. Undecided and you want to check out the Conservatives to see whether you can vote for them — forget about it.surrounded by cheering (handpicked) supporters, without any risk of a heckle, an interruption or a misstep.Transforming Harper into the Bubble Boy renders his campaign as sterile as a hospital isolation ward. It also fails to fulfil one of the important goals of a political campaign: engaging the electorate beyond the confines of party boundaries.The Tories are now giving the public a taste of what they’ve given the media for years: increasingly limited access to people and information. It is graceless, classless and thuggish. It betrays not only the Conservatives’ contempt for the media, but their disdain for the very principles on which conservatism is based."

258. Harper's income-splitting plan is socialism for the wealthy according to Harper's former PMO staffer Michael Taube.

259. Harper expects his staff to donate $1,000 each in kickback money to the CON Party, according to a report in the Globe and Mail, (which has now disappeared). In this way, Harper could be funneling money from Canadian Taxpayers' pockets, (via the Treasury), into the CON Party war chest. This should be investigated by the Crown and RCMP. With over 3,000 staff, Harper could be raking in $3,000,000 per annum for the CON Party, siphoned from Taxpayers, through the Treasury, into his staffs' pockets and then into the CON bank account.

This is where the story USED to be in the Globe and Mail. The URL is:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070725.tories25NStory/National/home

260. Harper invited prominent American Republican Frank Luntz to Ottawa to advise his CON insiders at Ottawa's Civitas Society, an influential Conservative group with close ties to Harper. Topics discussed included "the Moral Justification for War" and electoral reform. Luntz's speech was called Massaging the Conservative Message for Voters".

261. Harper has proposed closing borders to people wanting to be terrorists but he has opened Canada's border to anti-feminist Roosh Vörek who has been terrorizing women for years. Vörek preaches that rape on private property should be legal so women can have "learning experiences". Since 2012, the Southern Poverty Law Center has tracked Vörek for promoting misogyny. Why didn't Harper have Canada's border patrol put Vörek on our No Entry list? Millions of Canadian woman have been terrorized by sexual abusers, yet Harper has allowed a terrorist against women into Canada to lecture men on how to terrorize women! Isn't it Harper's duty to keep Canadian women safe from such a despicable man from entering Canada to preach misogyny or does Harper not consider this a form of terrorism? Harper is a misogynistic hypocrite, using ISIS terrorism for votes: all the while allowing a misogynistic terrorist to radicalize Canadian men to rape Canadian women!

262. Harper the HYPOCRITE used Justin Trudeau's "root causes" philosophy on the ISIS Crisis in his United Nations Speech, which Harper DEBUNKED when Justin explained it after the Boston Marathon Bombings!

263. Harper's bigotry and racism against Canada's First Nations was never more evident than at the United Nations in September, 2014. EVERY Summit Meeting, being held simultaneously, was attended by a CON MP EXCEPT the FIRST World Conference on Indigenous Peoples! Ironically, Harper sent a First Nations CON MP, Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq, to the conference on climate change!

264. Harper is MORE OPEN with Americans than his own countrymen, ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING it was their lives Harper was about to put on the line! In September, 2014, while Harper was in the USA apprising Americans of Canada's intentions on the War in Iraq, his Parliamentary Spokesman, CON MP Paul Calandra REFUSED to tell Canadians, during the televised Commons Question Period, ANYTHING about the War in Iraq commitments which Harper was making simultaneously, on behalf of Canada, to the Americans. Canadians, whose lives were at stake and who were going to foot the bill for billions of dollars, were the last to know!

265. Harper's CON MP Michelle Rempel, in yet another act of apparent CON-entitlement, allegedly spent $2689.10 of hard-working Canadian Taxpayers' money, including transport and two nights accommodations, to go on a wine-tasting trip fundraiser for a CON Party Candidate. Using Taxpayers' money from the Treasury for party business is AGAINST THE LAW, but she has NOT been charged. In comparison, if a Canadian stole $2689.10 from a company he worked for he would be arrested and charged. Additionally, he would be fired immediately. Harper, her boss, has refused to fire her for stealing from Canadians. Rempel is STILL a Member of Parliament, despite this theft! Where's the investigation? Does Harper control the courts and police?

266. Harper hypocrisy: has a bird sanctuary named after him in Israel despite birds dying by the thousands, poisoned in his beloved Tar Sands tailing ponds. This includes at least 30 endangered Blue Herons, found dead on August 7, 2015. The lifespan of a blue heron is about 15 years. Since one died in their hands, Tar Sands executives admitted many more may have left the scene, mortally injured.

267. Harper has intimidated charities who speak out against him into silence, under threat of losing their charitable status, but during Election 2015, the Canadian Firearms Institute, a non-profit organization, (as advertised on their web site), has sent Canadian gun owners letters praising Harper and the CON Party and railing against the Opposition Leaders! How can they get away with this? See the hypocrisy? See the threats? See the intimidation? See the bullying? See the control? See the fascism? All from our Leader!

268. Harper "CON-impartial" Speaker of the House, Andrew Scheer, chastised the NDP on September 24, 2014. He was all over the NDP for their questioning of the Speaker's very obvious BLATANT LACK of neutrality during Question Period the day before! VERY CURIOUSLY, what took the Speaker so long to slap the NDP's wrists? Apparently, he must be following orders from the PMO. Did he ever see the irony? Under this Speaker, the House of Commons is a sham and a joke!

269. Harper has become such an embarrassment to Canadians that two market-minded artists in Toronto brilliantly designed a bilingual tote bag that says "My Prime Minister Embarrasses Me" in both official languages and they immediately sold out on their first two runs!

270. Harper was sternly rebuked by former CON Prime Minister Brian Mulroney on September 4, 2014, on National television,  (CTV’s Power Play), slamming Harper's terrible record as Prime Minister, including Harper's under-estimation of Justin Trudeau, Harper's refusal to call an Inquiry into Missing & Murdered Women, Harper's Little League approach to foreign affairs, Harper's spat with the head of Canada's Supreme Court, Justice Beverley McLachlin, Harper's tense relations with the UN, Harper's negative relationship with U.S. President Barack Obama, and Harper's negligence in dealing with the environment. When such a powerful figure as a former Prime Minister from Harper's own Party destroys their Leader on National TV, on so many important topics, ... and the CON Caucus doesn't immediately fire him ... just how much more proof do Canadians need to see that CON MPs are nothing more than barking trained seals under their taskmaster, "rolling balls on the tips of their noses" in the House of Commons on his command, (more commonly known as reading scripts like Fifth Graders when it is their turn to make fun of Canada's supposed democracy on CPAC TV)?

271. Harper approves Buddy Ford to be his CON Candidate for the riding of Repentigny, Quebec for Election 2015. Not so fast there Buddy! Weren't you charged for possession of marijuana just four years ago? Update: Harper, who refuses to legalize pot, has fired Buddy as a candidate. In an absolute PRICELESS statement, BJ Siekierski, of iPolitics wrote, "It seems the Tories have expended more energy vetting spectators at campaign events than they have screening actual candidates." It seems the Harper vets Senators, advisers, and drummers the same way.

272. Harper's Environment Minister, CON MP Leona Aglukkaq told the United Nations Climate Summit on September 23, 2014 that Canada is a "Global Clean Energy Leader"! She then had to run from the meeting because her pants were on fire.

273. Harper is spending TENS OF MILLIONS of hard-working Canadian Taxpayer dollars to keep tabs on all political opponents, using key word searches! It is so extensive, the list of key words and phrases Harper searches for on the Internet is 1,100 pages long! A sample of key words and phrases Harper searches for, (have you used any of these, if so, you are on Harper's Watch List!), include “Council of Canadians,”; “whistleblower”; “federal government”; “missing and murdered aboriginal women”; “marijuana”; “Julian Fantino”;  “ombudsman”; “veteran”; “post traumatic stress disorder” and “Pat Stogran”

274. Harper CONTROL: The Speaker of the House, obviously OWNED by Harper, REFUSES to enforce Question Period Rules of Conduct on his OWN CON Party!

275. Harper's CON MP Paul Calandra turns the House of Commons into a bizarre exchange on September 23, 2014, acting like a stupid clown, effectively MAKING FUN of, and showing a COMPLETE DISREGARD for, Canada's Military deployed in Iraq

ref: 1987/1995