Day 14: August 15, 2015: Reasons NOT to Vote CON #'s 326 to 350

326. Harper BARRED Opposition Members of Parliament from talking to Canada's Military!

327. Harper's clueless HYPOCRISY: he refuses to legalize marijuana and is making it an Election 2015 issue to cover up his disastrous economic incompetence and Duffy Scandal. Harper is delivering stupid speeches about Justin wanting to hurt our teens by making access for them easier. What a joke. Scientists have proved that Harper's argument is a lie; calling him clueless, (see Manual Reason #311). BUT! WAIT! If Harper is so worried about drugs and the health of Canadians ... GET THIS! ... why has Harper allowed Big Pharma to import DANGEROUS generic blood pressure, antihistamines and other drugs for Canadian consumption that are BANNED in the USA!?!? According to Amir Attaran, a University of Ottawa law professor who researches drug policy, Harper's response to allowing these banned-in-America dangerous drugs has been “feeble, inadequate and incompetent” and added that the Harper Government is “on the side of drug companies and not Canadians.”

328. Harper slapped Hamilton, Ontario residents in the face with his worn out "We're Better" speech where THOUSANDS were losing their jobs due to the closure of U.S. Steel. That's like telling a terminal patient that he just won the $1,000 per Week for Life Lottery!

329. Harper's REAL 2015 Election Platform: the WORST record of any Canadian Government since Confederation, making Harper the WORST Prime Minister Canada has ever had. 

330. Harper Government's Tar Sands pushes Canada past Brazil to become the Global Leader in Deforestation!

331. Harper put Lesslie Askin, a 71-year-old grandmother, on his national terrorist watch list. What was her heinous act of terrorism? She was photographing Kinder Morgan’s aging storage tanks at the base of Barnaby Mountain in British Columbia for a research paper she was working on. Good luck trying to get on a flight into the USA Lady! You're a terrorist now. Harper has his eyes on you ... you, you, you RADICAL you!

Lesslie Askin, 71-year-old Canadian terrorist and grandmother, seen here without a veil on. Approach her with extreme caution because she might say hello.

332. Harper slams Justin, asking: where is JT going to get the money to fund his ideas to help all the needy Canadians that Harper has cut off from social services. Well, one answer is off-shore! Did you know that Harper has PROTECTED Canada's RICHEST Canadians? They are hiding their money in off-shore tax havens. Harper FIRED the 360 Senior Tax Auditors capable of catching them! Debi Daviau, President of the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada, stated Harper's firings defies logic. Daviau said, “At a time when many countries around the world are expanding their capacity to combat the illegal use of international tax havens, our government has announced changes that will impede its capacity to recover billions of dollars going offshore.” According to a recent estimate from Canadians for Tax Fairness, in the year 2014 Canadian firms were sheltering $200,000,000,000, (YES! BILLIONS), in the world's top tax havens. So, it is probably two, three or many more times that amount!

LINK to 360 Senior Tax Auditors fired

LINK to $200,000,000,000 taxable Canadian money in tax havens.

333. Harper STUPIDITY: The CONs accidentally sold a bulldozer for $5,000. Then the CONs bought it back for $65,000! Total Taxpayer's money blown by the CONs on deal: $60,000.

334. Harper HYPOCRISY: he has fired THOUSANDS of government employees to save money but BLOWS HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS of hard working Taxpayers' money on late cellphone fees charged against Harper Government-registered cellphones!

335. Harper, who has lost all respect on the World Stage, was apparently even made fun of by Ukrainian President Poroshenko after donating war supplies to him. A day after Harper gave them to Ukrainian President Poroshenko he told the United States Congress, “Blankets and night-vision goggles are also important, but one cannot win the war with blankets." 

336. Harper is loathed so much by the ORIGINAL Conservative Party of Canada they are fielding Candidates in the 2015 Election in an effort to oust Harper. They are backing Justin Trudeau. Sinclair Stevens, a former Progressive Conservative minister under Brian Mulroney, explained his party is looking for candidates in 15 Toronto and Kitchener area Ontario ridings where the Conservatives eked out a win in the 2011 election. These are the ridings Harper won by fewer than five percentage points, such as Etobicoke Centre which the CONs won by just 26 votes in 2011. Nelson Wiseman, a University of Toronto political science professor, said whether the Progressive Canadians' plan works won't be known until the election is over.But in a minority government situation, those 15 seats could be crucial, he said.Wiseman said he isn't assuming the party will have an impact, but there is a possibility it could take votes from Conservative candidates if it can get the word out about its Progressive Conservative roots, which could give it credibility.

337. Harper Fantasy: we’re in constant and severe danger, but don’t worry, I’ll protect you.

338. Harper Fantasy: he has managed Canada's money well.

339. Harper's extensive spying on groups critical of the Tar Sands has triggered Federal hearings. Harper has been spying on groups such as Idle No More, ForestEthics, Sierra Club, Leadnow, Dogwood Initiative and the Council of Canadians.

340. Harper HYPOCRISY: Harper preached AUSTERITY and cut back on social services in all government departments, including the closure of Veteran Service offices nationwide. But get this! Harper simultaneously INCREASED the budgets in his own CON offices by a WHOPPING 70%! No WONDER the CONs are cutting back on everyone else's budgets: the CONs are taking all that money for THEMSELVES!

341. Harper LIE: Harper issued a statement saying he does NOT spy on protests. That was a LIE! The Toronto Star reported that Ottawa has kept tabs on HUNDREDS of demonstrations across Canada since Harper came to power, including peaceful protests and university lectures! How's THAT for fascism!

342. Harper-controlled RCMP, evidently jumping on Harper's Fear Bandwagon, warned that Canada is more at risk from environmentalists than religiously-inspired terrorists.

343. Harper hates Putin.

344. Hates Israel critics.

345. Harper wraps himself in the Canadian flag like all fascist dictators before him. MacLean magazine's Scott Feschuk, in describing the Canadian flag Harper uses behind him in his patriotic speeches, says it makes "the fireplace in Citizen Kane look like an Easy-Bake Oven." In describing fascism, political scientist Dr. Lawrence Britt's first of fourteen fascist characteristics is "powerful and continuing nationalism." Dr. Britt said, "Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays."

The Fireplace in Citizen Kane

Harper constantly uses fascist-styled powerful and continuing nationalism as described by political scientist Dr. Lawrence Britt.

346. Harper hypocrisy: on the same day Harper was standing in the House of Commons telling our once-proud Nation that he was going to protect our country with a strong military, his same DESPERATE military was sneaking over to an old aircraft museum to steal parts to keep Canada's aging planes airborne. This museum theft was reported by the British Broadcasting Corporation, "Canada's air force has had to take spare parts from a museum to keep its search-and-rescue aircraft flying." Fear, militarism, and oh yes, rusty airplane parts to back his mouth up! Seems even the BBC, an ocean away, sees Harper as a joke.

Antique aircraft parts: free. Harper's big mouth: PRICELESS!

LINK to BBC report

347. Harper's CON voter solicitation team's phone call asking for woman's daughter who died ten years ago angers her mother, Irene Blokhuis, of St. Catharines, Ontario. Her daughter, Stephanie Hansen, age 25, died in 2005 from complications from medication she had taken after being injured in a car accident. After the call, Blokhuis did an Internet search on the name Voter Outreach Centre and found an Ottawa Citizen story from Tuesday noting that a phone-bank company, under contract to the CONs, was using the generic-sounding name to call voters. Blokhuis said she has repeatedly tried to get her daughter’s name removed from voter-contact lists and in 2007 called up the office of her local MP, CON Rick Dykstra, and asked that the name be purged. “The crassness and carelessness of the [CON] party in not updating the list has me very upset. “There are many more like me who will answer their phones in the next while and have to explain again that a loved one is dead,” Blokhuis said. “If so little care is taken for the individual, what care if any will be taken for the country?”,” she said. The Voter Outreach Centre is a trademark registered by iMarketing Solutions Group, the company that in 2011 made millions of live calls on behalf of the Conservatives to identify voters and get them to the polls on voting day. The company also operates under the name Responsive Marketing Group (RMG).

The CONs did NOT respond to a request for comment!

348. Harper did NOT fill mental health positions MONTHS after MILITARY SUICIDE PANDEMIC was announced. 40 necessary positions remained VACANT across Canada!

349. Harper's Veteran Suicide Prevention Programme is NOT working! When Master Corporal Denis Demers committed suicide on September 12, 2014 in Canada, it marked the point at which MORE Veterans of the Afghanistan War have committed suicide in Canada than the TOTAL NUMBER of Canadian Soldiers were killed in combat in Afghanistan!

Afghanistan Veteran Master Corporal Denis Demers had a stand-off with the Ontario Provincial Police for 40 hours before committing suicide on September 12, 2014. Harper's Veteran Suicide Prevention Programme is NOT working!

350. Harper eliminated ANOTHER VETERAN BENEFIT! The "One Last Move" Relocation Policy for retiring Veterans is GONE!

ref: 1947/1964