Day 20: August 21, 2015: Reasons NOT to Vote CON #'s 476 to 500

476. Harper's CON MP Joe Daniel, (the incumbent for Don Valley North, Ontario), says he will NOT do media interviews for Election 2015 until AFTER the election. What's Daniel afraid of? What's Daniel hiding? Will THIS wake up his constituents!

477. Harper's CON Candidate in the 2015 Election for Nanaimo-Ladysmith, Mark MacDonald, has refused to enter any local election debates. His response read, "At this time we will decline all invitations of debates, positions and questionnaires during the election campaign. Mark MacDonald, candidate, and the campaign team are focused on the issues of the Campaign, which will be highlighted in our printed materials. When Mark becomes an elected official you are more than welcome to contact his office, to discuss a variety of issues. Please know your issue is not being singled out, rather no response will be given any group, party or individual on any of the issues raised by them."

478. Harper's Canada was the ONLY United Nations Member to reject the landmark Native rights document, Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

479. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Ocean Contaminants & Marine Toxicology Program.

480. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Experimental Lakes Area.

481. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the DFO Marine Science Libraries

482. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Centre for Offshore Oil & Gas Energy Research

483. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Kitsilano Coast Guard Station

484. Harper's CONs, in their best Harper-racist-styled attack mode, bullied Ms. Ala Buzreba on social media incessantly when she was just 16 years old, calling her “raghead slut” who should “go back to where she came from”“These were grown up men and women well over the age of 35 year old picking on a 16 year old kid – telling her that she is invalid, a terrorist, corrupt, worth nothing, a raghead slut who doesn’t deserve life and has no place in Canadian society – that she should ‘go back to where she came from.’” Called out for her retaliatory remarks, she decided to resign as the Liberal Candidate for the riding of Calgary Nose Hill, Alberta in the 2015 Federal election.

485. Despite widespread international disappointment, Harper helped to block the United Nations plan to rid the world of nuclear weapons by opposing the proposed document at the United Nations review conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The document called on the UN to hold a disarmament conference on the Middle East by 2016. Is it any wonder when Harper address the United Nations now, no one come to listen! The world thinks he is a joke.

At the UN, when Harper speaks, no one listens.

486. Harper was destroyed in the British press on Saturday, August 8, 2015, calling him secretive, vindictive and patronizing. Harper is an embarrassment to his country!

487. Harper has ignored Canadian ways while destroying our reputation, according to Former Prime Minister Joe Clark. Clark explains, "Harper has changed Canada’s image in the world, from a nation admired for its sophistication in mediating, peacekeeping and working cooperatively in multilateral institutions to one that’s belligerent, divisive and dismissive of the United Nations and other international institutions, such as the Commonwealth, La Francophonie and the Organization of American States."

488. Harper's CON bureaucrats censor the majority of Access to Information requests!

489. Harper claimed Canadians don't care about his disputes with the press.

490. Harper once promised to reform the Senate, but according to Tim Harper, National Affairs Editor of the Toronto Star, "it is merely home to his puppets who will do what it takes to fulfill the boss’s wishes." Or in other words, just one more Harper lie.

491. Harper has killed true democracy in Canada. According to a well-written letter to the Toronto Star, Harper "has embraced an ideology dedicated to a gradual, but carefully managed redefinition of Canada’s democratic values and freedoms. Characterized by a resolute, personal control over messaging, coupled with a singular management of policy and operational decisions, Harper’s autocratic style has over time incorporated a range of positions such as: wilful suppression or “re-interpretation” of information; attacks on the media and a devotion to a culture of fear, intimidation and secrecy; repudiation of common ground participation or reasoned compromise with its opponents; and control, misrepresentation, narrowing and elimination of scientific, social and financial researched facts and statistical data through targeted budgetary cutbacks, access limitations, security-inspired censorship and reductions in regulatory oversight. A disturbing and unsettling habit of the Harper government is one of allowing a broad range of right-leaning ideological positions to triumph over historical evidence, empirical data and common sense in many of its strategic social, political, and economic plans. When ideology is made into an operational weapon, or set into a global context, it begins by exploiting the vulnerabilities of those least likely to be able to defend themselves, in addition to overtly attacking those who oppose its doctrines and philosophies."

492. Harper RACISM: one half of ALL Ontario First Nations communities have been on boil water alert for 10 years! How is that Racist Would Harper allow HALF OF ALL CALGARY to be on boil water alert for 10 years? Precisely!

493. Harper HYPOCRISY: told his CON MP Garth Turner, a journalist, that journalists make bad politicians because they always have to tell the Truth. If Harper KNEW that journalists make bad politicians, then WHY did Harper appoint TWO journalists, Pam Wallin and Mike Duffy, to the Senate?

494. Harper's backbench CON MPs must "bark on command" according to former Caucus CON MP Brent Rathgeber.

495. Harper does NOT take women seriously. Canada ranks an embarrassing 20th amongst 133 countries when it comes to the gender gap, behind countries such as Nicaragua, Latvia, Cuba and Lesotho. Violence annually drives 100,000 women and children from their homes into shelters, costing Canadian society billions of dollars. The Department of Justice estimates that spousal abuse costs $7.4 billion annually. Canadian women, on average, earn 81 cents for every dollar a man earns. Canada is in a shocking 49th place ranking among 133 countries on health and survival. Harper has not addressed the tragic gaps in aboriginal health outcomes, which continue unabated. Canada’s dismal 42nd place ranking in democratic representation, with men outnumbering women in Parliament by a ratio of three to one, is in stark contrast to Rwanda, where women held 45 of the 80 seats in Parliament.

496. Harper's World of DELUSION: he evidently ranks himself GREATER than Lester B. Pearson, Nobel Peace Prize Winner! Harper says Canada's contribution to World Affairs has never been higher. Considering the rest of the world thinks he is a joke, maybe he should re-gauge his assessment of himself!

497. Harper's ridiculous health care strategy for First Nations most assuredly resulted in the death of five-year-old Brody Meekis from a strep throat infection; a common bacterial infection that is easily cured with a round of antibiotics when diagnosed almost anywhere in the developed world. Bart Meekis, Sandy Lake's Chief said, “It is the health system that we know today that is failing the First Nations. We’re not asking for more than what the normal Canadian gets for health care, but we’re losing people needlessly.” Brody Meekis, he said, was one of them.

498. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the St. Johns Marine Traffic Centre.

499. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the St. Anthony’s Marine Traffic Centre.

500. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Conservation and Protection Office.

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