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.

ref: 1851/1857

Day 19: August 20, 2015: Reasons NOT to Vote CON #'s 451 to 475

451. Harper is undermining public health care according to the Canadian Medical Association Journal, (CMAJ). In 2011, the Conservatives unilaterally announced they would scale back federal health transfers to provinces from an annual increase of 6% to a rate tied with GDP, (or a minimum of 3%). the 2014 federal budget made the equalization portion of the Health Care Transfer contingent on a per capita formula -- as opposed to needs-based. This move is expected to reduce transfers to have-not provinces by $16.5 billion over five years. The Canadian Medical Association reports that four out of five Canadians said they are not confident they will have access to health services when they need it and 61% doubt Canada's hospitals and long-term care facilities will be able to meet the demands of an aging population. CMAJ's Deputy Editor, Dr. Matthew Stanbrook, stated, "For much of the last decade, Canadian federal health policy has been conspicuous by its absence. In recent years, the [Harper] government has neglected [its health care] responsibilities, even when courts have ordered them to do otherwise. During that time, the [Harper] government has walked away from collaborating with the provinces through the Council of the Federation and declined to renew the First Ministers’ Accord on Health Care; dithered on public health measures of glaringly obvious benefit, such as tobacco control and asbestos elimination; ignored and disbanded expert advisory panels on health issues; weakened the authority of the public health agency; muzzled scientists; eliminated the long form census, the best source of information on regional disparities relevant to health; and eroded research support, while increasingly tying what remains to business interests rather than health benefits. By all appearances, the [Harper] government seems to be trying to get itself out of the health care business. It cannot. Many essential aspects of health care are a federal responsibility, and our biggest, most complex problems in the health care system cannot be solved without federal leadership. Without such leadership, Canadians will continue to suffer. The CMAJ is calling on "all Canadians to make sure that health care is a key issue in the upcoming federal election."

452. 55,000 unionized Canadian voters will be voting AGAINST Harper and the CONs on October 19, 2015. The Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada is abandoning its tradition of neutrality in elections to actively campaign against Harper. The union, which represents some 55,000 professionals in the public service, has traditionally chosen to stay at arm’s length from elections. Union President, Debi Daviau, stated, “Extraordinary times call for extraordinary actions. This [Harper] government has forced non-partisan organizations such as ours to make a very difficult choice: to remain silent or to speak out. We have chosen to speak out.” Daviau cited several controversial bills as proof that the government has targeted “the very existence of unions and collective bargaining.” A survey commissioned by the union last year found HUNDREDS of scientists who claimed they had been asked to EXCLUDE OR ALTER INFORMATION in government documents for non-scientific reasons. And thousands more said they’d been PREVENTED from talking freely about their work with the media or the public. “Canadians deserve to know the damage this government is inflicting, unnecessarily and often underhandedly, to their services, their programs and even to their democracy,” Daviau said.

453. Harper, when asked by the Press about all the corruption in his Prime Minister's Office, as confessed in court at the Duffy trial by Nigel Wright, his former Chief of Staff, he REFUSED TO ANSWER stating he did not like the premise of the question! Verbatim, Harper said, "Well, look, while I don't accept the premise of the question, I'm not going to get into disputing individual matters that are currently before the court." This was in reply to CBC News' Hannah Thibedeau asking Harper how it felt to know that his senior staff, including his current Chief of Staff Ray Novak, "knowingly allowed you to repeat a lie for months that Mike Duffy had repaid his own expenses when that actually wasn't the case."

454. The similarities between Harper and Richard Nixon are astounding, including it seems, their shamelessness to lie.

455. Harper IGNORED his own staff lawyer's advice on Senate residency qualifications, as revealed by that lawyer's testimony, under oath, at Duffy's trial on August 20, 2015. Harper's former legal adviser, Benjamin Perrin, (currently a law professor at the University of British Columbia), worked as a legal affairs and policy adviser to Harper from 2012-13. On the stand he explained that he was "taken aback" by Harper's position that an individual only needed to own $4,000 of property in a province to be constitutionally qualified to represent the region. Perrin testified that he communicated his concerns diplomatically to the PMO but the PMO stood firm on its definition. At the time, there had been questions about whether some senators, including Duffy, met the constitutional residency requirements. The Constitution clearly states that a senator "shall be resident in the province for which he is appointed" and must own property worth at least $4,000 in that province.

456. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Federal Contaminated Sites Action Plan.

457. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Chemicals Management Plan

458. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Canadian Centre for Inland Waters

459. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Clean Air Agenda

460. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Air Quality Health Index

461. Harper is spending $116,000,000 to build an Arctic naval base to fend off the Russians. The press advised the Nanisivik facility "will have no functional use during winter." Guess Canadians can surmise that reading this, Putin will decide to attack during the NHL hockey season.

462. Harper's Cabinet Ministers Peter MacKay and Tony Clement should have RESIGNED AS MPs due to their acquisition bungling, according to then-CON MP Brent Rathgeber. That was why Rathgeber became a former CON. While still a CON MP Rathgeber was so upset with the CON’s handling of the F-35 purchase, he wrote a blog entry critiquing it. That was a huge problem in Harper's word since Rathgeber was a CON MP himself and backbenchers are supposed to shut up and say nothing without Harper's prior approval. Soon after, the phone rang, with Harper’s office on the line demanding the blog post be removed. When the caller was told no the caller said, “You don’t understand; I am calling from the PMO.” After being tossed from the CON caucus by harper, Rathgeber went more public with his sentiments describing the tightly controlled CON caucus, where backbenchers are given little say and punished for stepping out of line with a relocated office, a less desirable committee and the cancelling of travel junkets.

463. Harper's proposed regulations for Canada's broadcast industry criticized by Google at the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission hearings looking at how consumers view and pay for TV programming. Google explained how Harper's ideas would, "likely increase costs to consumers in the form of increased subscription fees."

464. Harper muzzles Canada's Military Generals.

465. Harper's Delusions of Grandeur: setting up military bases around the world, increase military spending and screw the Vets. "Today Ottawa, tomorrow the WORLD!" Historian and defense expert Jack Granatstein noted that Harper has shifted Canada’s military posture from one focused on protecting North America, (with a dose of United Nations peacekeeping thrown in), to one in which Canadian soldiers play an active fighting role in far-away places. Steven Staples, a military analyst and head of Ottawa’s Rideau Institute, calls Harper's entire idea a waste of money.

466. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Species at Risk Programme

467. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Weather and Environmental Services

468. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Substance and Waste Management

469. Harper's Fascism: OBSTRUCT! OBSTRUCT! OBSTRUCT! Seriously, this IS happening in Canada: a request to interview a government scientist took 110 pages of E-mails! It is now virtually impossible to get past the "Minister of Propaganda."

470. Harper's control of scientists could easily result in the deaths of Canadians. Harper orders marine scientists NOT to issue WARNINGS about DEADLY red tides to Canadians UNTIL his release approvals are granted.  Calvin Sandborn, a lawyer with the Environmental Law Centre at the University of Victoria stated, "[We] just hope that nobody dies while we're waiting for political approval from a minister's office. It's crazy. We have fisheries scientists saying that they're restricted from issuing red tide warnings without getting political approval from Ottawa. So, you have a government scientist put in a quandary: do we issue a red tide warning, because red tides can kill people, do I do that right now or do I send it off to Ottawa and follow all the protocols and just hope that nobody dies while we're waiting for political approval from a minister's office?" These days, Canadian scientists are sent to international conferences with "government minders," Sandborn added.

471. Harper's hired staff have the authority to GAG elected Members of Parliament, threaten to THROW OUT ELECTED Members of Parliament from the CON Party, and ORDER elected Members of Parliament to LIE to the Canadians they were ELECTED to serve!

472. Harper's SECRET Canada-European Union Trade Agreement gives corporations the RIGHT TO SUE the Canadian Government if they do NOT get their way! Harper is SELLING OUT Canada to Big Business! 

473. Harper was challenged by First Nations Women with their 'Am I Next?' campaign after his idiotic and senseless “Sociological Phenomenon" comment.

474. Harper's personal definition of crime, insisting that, "Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women is NOT a “Sociological Phenomenon” but simply a series of individual crimes" was WRONG and RACIST, according to Jakeet Singh, Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics & Government at Illinois State University. Singh explained, "Harper really seems to have it out for sociology. In 2013, in response to an alleged plot against a VIA train, Harper remarked that we should not “commit sociology,” but pursue an anti-crime approach. And last week, in response to the death of Tina Fontaine, Harper argued that an inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women is not needed, because this is not a “ sociological phenomenon ” but simply a series of individual crimes. Of course, not only is all crime a sociological phenomenon , but also without a broader sociological analysis we can’t begin to understand why the rates of missing and murdered indigenous women are tragically high compared to non-indigenous women. Furthermore, it’s clear that if rates of violence against non-indigenous women climbed as high as those of indigenous women, this government (even with its woeful record on women’s issues) would be more likely to announce not only a public inquiry but a full-scale national strategy. This double-standard in how we value human lives is what sociologists call “racism.”

475. Harper labelled a RACIST for his double-standard against First Nations Women by Jakeet Singh, Assistant Professor, Department of Politics & Government, Illinois State University.

ref: 1858/1874

Day 18: August 19, 2015: Reasons NOT to Vote CON #'s 426 to 450

426. Harper demanded complete control of the Senate: a secret internal memo has revealed! This was a move right out of the fascist playbook!

427. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Environmental Protection Operations.

428. US Investigative Journalist Glenn Greenwald explains exactly why Harper, who takes the exact same stance as so many in the American Press,  is a racist for his position on the Gaza Genocide

429. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Compliance Promotion Program

430. Harper HYPOCRISY: accepted, (and bragged on his personal web page about receiving), the B’nai Brith International President’s Gold Medallion for protecting Human Rights while KNOWING the Tar Sands are committing a genocide against Canadians in Alberta!

431. Harper asked Arthur Porter, (who allegedly masterminded a $22,500,000 kickback scheme in Montreal), to lobby developing nations, on Harper's behalf, to vote for Canada's doomed attempt to get a seat on the UN Security Council, (according to the latter's claim in his book, "The Man Behind the Bow Tie: Arthur Porter on Business, Politics and Intrigue").

432. Harper's economic record HAS to be the worst economic disaster in the history of Canada when the second-worst-ever, economy-challenged Prime Minister sings praises about it!

433. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Action Plan on Clean Water.

435. Harper's Foreign Worker Programme is a magnet for Human Rights abuses! The United Nations has reported Harper's Human Rights abuses and this was a PERFECT example. Before he died, this foreign worker in Quebec, had CLAIMED Human Rights abuses on camera! Mexican worker Ivan Guerrero drowned on the farm where he worked. Strangely, his death was NOT REPORTED to police for THREE DAYS! Following his death, a local group dedicated to helping migrant workers shared a shocking video which they had recorded with Guerrero before he died. On a stark background, Guerrero speaks directly into the camera, addressing the slave-like hardships he endured at work."Es como si fuera yo ... un perro," he said. Translated: “It’s like I'm the dog, and she's my owner,” he describes his taskmaster.  He told of long hours, UNPAID overtime and limited freedom. Guerrero, looked straight into the camera and added, “We are human beings, and I would like to be treated with more dignity.” Guerrero had been coming to Canada for four years, picking vegetables and sending his earnings to his wife and two kids back in Mexico. On the first day of his fifth summer in Canada, he died while trying to fix a leak near his living quarters. It took three days for someone to contact authorities. Why hasn't Harper ensured that all foreigners working in Canada under his Foreign Worker Programme are not treated like the Chinese brought in to work like slaves to build our transcontinental railroad? Why is Harper in another century when it comes to Human Rights of workers? The United Nations has reported Harper's Human Rights abuses. It is because Harper has zero shame! May Ivan Guerrero rest in peace, something he did not find working for peanuts in Harper's Canada. Perhaps, as a redeeming gesture, if that is possible, a new Prime Minister would consider a collection for Ivan's widow and two children, plus perhaps something done as a memorial in Mexico for them. It is the least a once-proud nation could do for its own recovery and dignity; once Harper is gone.

Mexican worker Ivan Guerrero who died working like a slave under Harper's Foreign Worker Programme

436. Harper's RACISM was amplified ONE THOUSANDFOLD on September 9, 2014. Harper was totally jubilant over finding a MISSING old ship at a cost of MILLIONS of DOLLARS but still REFUSES to spend ONE PENNY on an Inquiry into MISSING Women!

437. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory.

438. Harper has RIGGED the Election 2015 Voter Cards to deceive Canadians into NOT being able to vote. Elections Canada will mail out the customary Voter Information Cards this fall. Seasoned Voters may automatically think that, like in MULTIPLE PRIOR ELECTIONS, they are good to go. THEY ARE NOT. These voter cards, simply a confirmation that you are a registered voter, are now WORTHLESS on Election Day. This is one of Harper's new "LEGALLY FRAUDULENT" voter suppression techniques. Voter Suppression is Harper's push to reduce the number of voters, meaning these cards are now HARPER'S PLOY to win again! Statistically, the fewer Canadians voting means the more likely Harper wins. HARPER KNOWS IT! That is exactly how Harper won four years ago. Harper is depending that, as per usual, THOUSANDS of Canadians will not read the card, but simple put them in their safe place until voting day, believing that is all they need. Harper knows that thousands of seasoned voters will NOT bother to read them, and miss the new sentence which will appear at the bottom of the Voter Information Cards stating, "Please note that this card is not a piece of ID". All that card tells you now is that you are registered. After that it is WORTHLESS. YOU NEED VALID ID. One piece of ID is fine if it is your driver's licence, your provincial or territorial ID card, or any other government card with your photo, name and current address. You can also use TWO pieces of ID which are listed at the LINK below. 

CLICK HERE FOR A FULL LIST OF ID ACCEPTED ON ELECTION DAY

or go to: http://www.elections.ca/content2.aspx?section=id&document=index&lang=e

439. Harper cancelled the entitlements for injured and disabled Veterans by between 30 and 90 per cent, and even those payments and benefits were subject to claw back! Despite this immoral cruelty, Harper is STILL depending on new military and demanding they go overseas!

440. Harper spent $694,071 in legal costs on his defense against Veterans injured in Afghanistan

441. Harper's financial cut-backs against Veterans has been so severe that he now pays his Deputy Ministers more, on average, in one year than a Veteran who loses two legs in Afghanistan can expect to receive for the rest of their life, according to Veterans ombudsman Pat Strogan.

442. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Sustainable Water Management Division

443. Harper has screwed Canada's Veterans to balance his books. How immoral, shameless and sickening can a leader be? Harper has been disasterously incompetent with Canada's financial well-being and he is making Veterans pay for his incompetence!

444. Harper shut down nine Veterans Affairs offices to save $3.78 million. In the same year, Harper spent more than $4 million to buy NHL playoff hockey ads. Shutdowns laid off 89 employees, leaving eight workers to cover 17,000 veterans. How did that affect services to Veterans? For example, in Sydney, Nova Scotia, one person was left to do the work of 13 employees who had handled 4,200 clients. Harper claimed the office closures would mean better services for Veterans. In fact, by screwing Canada's thousands of Veterans out of services, Harper was able to air his propaganda CON ads during the playoffs!

445. Harper's former Chief of Staff, Nigel Wright, testified in court on August 19, 2015 that the Prime Minister's Office thought it was okay to deceive the Canadian public! They were RUNNING CANADA and had their FINGERS in the TREASURY! This thinking was obviously all bred by Harper as he was in FULL COMMAND and demanded FULL CONTROL! This is an admission of corruption under oath! Harper should resign effective immediately. Nigel Wright should be arrested immediately! On the campaign trail for Election, 2015, Harper has REFUSED to comment, (see also Reason #453)!

446. Harper has REFUSED to fire his Chief of Staff, Ray Novak, DESPITE court testimony that Novak had DIRECT KNOWLEDGE of the secret payment to cover Mike Duffy’s disputed expenses! A CEO in industry would NEVER retain a crook to stay on in the most important position under him in his office; otherwise the Board of Directors would FIRE him! Yet, Harper deems it is OKAY to keep corrupt staff running his office! 

One wonders: if Harper fires Novak, will Novak announce Harper knew?

447. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Environmental Effects Monitoring Programme.

448. Harper CON MP Peter Goldring has been accused of allegedly bugging campaign computers to hack into a CON volunteer's email and other accounts during the 2011 election. The CON Party knew and covered it up.  Goldring installed the spyware on computers in order to monitor his volunteer's activities. In Canada, illegally accessing someone's computer or private data is a criminal offence; carrying a prison sentence of up to 10 years. Goldring has allegedly admitted to his actions. Matthew Altheim, Vice President of Goldring's riding association during that campaign, and now the head of a video production company, claims CON party members took the information to Ottawa at the time. They met privately with CON Party President John Walsh. They also emailed the PMO, "hoping for help & assistance. No action was taken," Altheim said they are bringing attention to the case now because they want to highlight the culture of the party, and "especially the PMO." He said, "I was so disgusted with our party that they were so willing to cover things up, to protect their establishment, and protect the party brand." Goldring is known to wear a "spy pen" in his pocket so that he can use the tiny video camera to record his conversations with people. Also, in 2014, Goldring raised eyebrows when he suggested fellow MPs wear video recording equipment when sexually consorting without protection.

449. Harper is DELUDED: he has been abusing First Nations at EVERY opportunity, from genocide to treaty-breaking, then HAD THE NERVE to issue a Press Release stating he "Continued to Strengthen" Ottawa's relationship with First Nations!

450. Harper was NAILED by the Opposition to explain why the CONs acted like a dictatorship, UNILATERALLY forcing Canadian Forces into Iraq without the DEMOCRATIC permission of ALL Canadians through their Members of Parliament.

ref: 1875/1885

Day 17: August 18, 2015: Reasons NOT to Vote CON #'s 401 to 425

401. Harper's Employment Minister, CON MP Pierre Poilievre, immediately attacked Justin Trudeau's Election 2015 plan to tax the top 1% as soon as Justin announced it. Harper's tax plans have always favoured the rich and evidently the CONs want to keep it that way!

402. Harper's Minister of Public Safety, CON MP Steven Blaney, LIED about Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party's policy on marijuana legalization. 

403. Harper's bigotry: ignored crediting the Inuit who KNEW the location of Franklin's ship wreck and instead, gave full credit to his own search team for "discovering it"! Guess Harper had to justify the spending of millions of hard-working Taxpayers dollars for a team to go up North and ask directions on where the ship sank.

404. Harper, in a shameful bid to get rid of five Arab refugees, lost yet ANOTHER court case when  Harper's Immigration and Refugee Board tried to deport the seven member Gholami family of Nova Scotia, (Mom, Dad & five kids), to Iran. GET THIS: Iran is a country this family had NEVER BEEN TO! Abbas Gholami, his wife Fatemeh Naserian Mochadam, and their five children were all born in Kuwait, but due to the father’s family ties, they are technically citizens of Iran. Justice James O’Reilly of the Federal Court of Canada judge ruled that Harper's Immigration and Refugee Board didn't properly consider the issue. The family arrived in Nova Scotia a couple of years ago. They say they left Kuwait after years of threatening phone calls from Mochadam’s cousins. Court documents say her family, which are Arab, were unhappy she had married a husband of Persian ancestry. They felt it shameful and threatened to kill the woman. None of the family, however, has ever lived there, or even visited. "Send us your sick, your tired and your hungry." Whoops! That's the USA you're looking for. This is Canada. GET OUT!

405. Harper has been pushing more and more Canadians into POVERTY, according to the Broadbent Institute! They reported that the top 10 per cent of Canadians owned almost half : 47.9 per cent of all the assets in the country.The bottom half of the population, on the other hand, shares a total of six per cent of the wealth. And the majority of Canadians own no financial assets at all, except any pensions they may have access to.

406. Harper slammed the Senate's Special Committee on Illegal Drugs for saying alcohol is more dangerous than pot. The Senate's Special Committee recommended that Canada regulate the sale of marijuana and wipe clean the slate of those convicted of pot possession. Harper stated, "As a parent, I would be more concerned about pot use than alcohol use by my children, even in moderation." Considering an under-aged teen girl was rushed from 24 Sussex, Ottawa to an Ottawa Hospital Emergency with alcohol poisoning, it appears that, in fact, Harper doesn't even know what the word moderation means!

407. Harper is FAILING to prevent penitentiary suicides. The report accused the Minister-in-charge, Public Safety Minister CON MP Steven Blaney, as not taking the high rate of prison suicides seriously.

408. Harper 's "Tough on Crime" allows man who beheaded his mother out on a Day Pass in Toronto BUT, if you wear a mask to a protest rally you get 10 years in prison!

409. Harper RACISM: continually glorifying a CON who STARVED Canada's First Nations People and BRAGGED about it! 

410. Harper hellbent at renaming landmarks after CONs

411. Under Harper's record of FISCAL IRRESPONSIBILITY an ever-increasing number of Canadians are now living from paycheque to paycheque

412. Harper supporter verbally assaults press at a Harper rally in Toronto on August 18, 2015 with very offensive language, caught by a CBC cameraman. In August, 2015, the International Press have been increasingly all over Canada about the threatening, divisive style among Canadians being nurtured by Harper himself. Canada's international reputation is at an all-time low because of harper himself. This is a perfect example. Caution: If you click on and go to the link, the language is very offensive.

413. Harper keeps advertising "Are we better off with Harper?" Concerned Canadians are asking, "How can we be better off with Harper's Cancer Plan allowing companies to pollute our millions of fresh water streams, lakes and rivers? Can Harper not READ? Look at the perfect example of what has happened cancer-wise in Fort Chip, Alberta because the Tar Sands leaking tailing ponds are killing them off! Isn't that genocide ENOUGH to prove we are not better off with Harper!"

414. Harper has screwed up to an estimated 150,000 Canadian Old Age Pensioners out of part of their pensions dating back as far as SEVEN YEARS! CON MP Alice Wong, Minister of State for Seniors, has DECLINED TO COMMENT! [Former CON MP] Brent Rathgeber, running in Election 2015 as an Independent in St. Albert-Edmonton, Alberta said its "an embarrassment and a political liability. Had Parliament been sitting, no doubt there would have been tough questions asked of the minister responsible. Sadly, the details are going to have to wait until after the election. I think that’s unfortunate because there will be individual Canadians caught up in the interim who will have a difficult time making their ends meet.” Noel Somerville, Chairman, Public Interest Alberta Seniors Task Force stated, “I am sure there are a lot of seniors in dire financial straits who would really require that money, and I think the government should come clean about what happened and what they should do about it,” Ministry of State for Seniors spokeswoman Julia Sullivan said she was unable to provide any information! Meanwhile, despite screwing Canadians out of tens of thousands of dollars, Stephen "Mister Tough on Crime" Harper is paying his appointed Senator Mike Duffy his FULL senators salary while he is on trial! Where is the justice in screwing 150,000 pensioners and paying Duffy for his alleged crime?

415. Harper's policies has put Canada's economy into a coma, according to expert Canadian Economists Scott Clark and Peter DeVries.

416. Harper INTERFERED in the Scottish Separation Referendum. Ottawa HATED France's Interference in the 1995 Quebec Separation Referendum, so why is Harper, who represents Canada, doing the EXACT SAME THING 19 Years Later?

417. Harper's TOP PEOPLE knew about the $90,000 Duffy Cheque, according to RCMP Documents. They included Sen. Marjory LeBreton, Government Leader in the Senate, Sen. David Tkachuk, Chair of the Senate Standing Committee, Sen. Carolyn Stewart Olsen, Member of the Senate Standing Committee, Andrew MacDougall, Director of Communications, Prime Minister’s Office, Benjamin Perrin, Legal Counsel to the Prime Minister, Ray Novak, Harper’s Deputy Chief of Staff, Carl Vallee, Press Secretary, Prime Minister’s Office, Arthur Hamilton, Legal Counsel, Conservative Party of Canada, and Chris Woodcock, Director of Issues Management, Prime Minister’s Office. Harper CONTROLS EVERYTHING. So if THEY all knew, how come "Harper didn't"? Here's a SIMPLE SOLUTION: if Harper is SO SURE he didn't, why doesn't he just submit to a LIE DETECTOR test to shut up his critics and most Canadians?

418. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Environmental Emergency Response Program.

419. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Urban Wastewater Program

420. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences

421. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Smokestacks Emissions Monitoring Team

422. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Hazardous Materials Information Review Commission

423. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy

424. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, Winnipeg Office

425. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Municipal Water and Wastewater Survey

ref: 1886/1901

Day 16: August 17, 2015: Reasons NOT to Vote CON #'s 376 to 400

376. The Harper Regime has given permission to Shell Oil to drill off Nova Scotia's coast for oil. GET THIS: to save stocking emergency equipment, Shell does NOT have to cap an oil blowout for TWENTY-ONE DAYS, (yes, three weeks)! Harper has allowed Shell the possibility to freely spill oil into the ocean for almost a month; wreaking environmental havoc on Nova Scotia's amazing marine life, major fishing grounds, coastal communities and the Sable Island National Park Reserve, the world's largest breeding colony of grey seals. And Harper's deal is so Shell can save a few bucks by not having to keep safety equipment nearby! In comparison, the U.S. requires oil companies to cap blowouts within 24 hours. Just where is the nearest capping equipment? NORWAY!!! An ocean and 5,000 kilometres away! Shell wants to drill up to seven exploratory wells, which are especially risky and prone to large spills, off the coast of Nova Scotia in the next four years. If a blowout did happen, it would be catastrophic for Nova Scotia's major fishing grounds. Haddock, lobster and crab stocks would be at risk, as would whales, dolphins, sharks, sea turtles and hundreds of species of migratory birds. IT GETS WORSE: some of the backup safety equipment is located in SOUTH AFRICA, a staggering 12,000 kilometres away.

Possibly coming to Nova Scotia, thanks to the Harper Regime: this is the April, 2010 explosion at British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon offshore rig in the Gulf of Mexico which has done irreparable harm to the environment, tourism and jobs. It killed 11 workers.

377. The Union of Canadian Correctional Officers, which represents Canada’s prison guards, is urging its 7,500 members NOT to vote for Harper and the CONs in Election 2015. Jason Godin, National Vice President at the Union of Canadian Correctional Officers stated, “They’ve done more damage in three years than any government has done in our entire history. We’re reaching crisis proportions in terms of double-bunking, and [the government] just completely ignores all the research. When they get tough on crime, they get tough on correctional officers. At the same time they’re making our working conditions get more dangerous, they’re gutting the Canada Labour Code, which is the most important piece of protection that we have. In ten years time, Canadians are gonna go, ‘Oh my God what just happened?’ Because all of those people they’re putting in jail, guess what? 80 per cent of them are going to get out.” Although the union’s constitution forbids the guards from endorsing political parties, Godin said he will be encouraging his members to vote against Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservatives in 2015.

378. Harper's Employment Minister, CON MP Jason Kenney offended tens of thousands of unemployed Canadians on August 1, 2104 when he Twittered, "Do Labour Shortages Exist in Canada?" Why would Canada’s Employment Minister openly and offhandedly offend SO MANY Canadians on that very large and well read social network system? Jason Kenny's MAIN RESPONSIBILITY as Canada's Employment Minister IS jobs and he treated these hurting Canadians coast to coast to coast with ZERO ETHICS and COMPLETE IRRESPONSIBLY. What a mess. And it got worse! Tens of thousands of Canada’s unemployed are in serious financial difficulty and are being refused Employment Insurance! Harper robbed the Employment Insurance Fund in a futile attempt to balance his budget; instead of paying Canada's Unemployed what was rightfully theirs! 

379. Harper Employment Minister, CON MP Jason Kenney and Fraser Institute Senior Fellow Mark Milke battle in a PUBLIC TWITTER SLUG FEST over the Temporary Foreign Worker Program!

380. Harper SCREWS Liberal Ridings BIG TIME on government perks handouts! CON and NDP Ridings get biggest shares of the Perks Pie, BY FAR!

381. Harper DESTROYED 48-year-old Terry Potvin's life by handing his "Criminal Record" over to the USA. Decades ago, Potvin had been arrested with a small amount of “crappy hash oil” when he and his pals were searched outside a pool hall. He acknowledges that at 19-years-old he was “being young and dumb,” BUT he got a conditional discharge, two years probation, and NO criminal record! The USA refused him entry which has cost him his career. The now 48-year-old Wasaga Beach auto parts executive and father of two is so squeaky clean that he had no idea why he was pulled over for secondary screening by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. All he knew was that being grilled for six hours about his past was going to make him late for his business trip to Nashville as part of the new job he’d started just two weeks before as lead quality engineer. He had to call his new boss and tell him that he wasn’t being allowed into the U.S. because of a three-decade old pot charge. Potvin understood when his employer had to let him go because of his travel problems. Another position with an auto parts company also fell through when he told them he couldn’t go into the States.

382. Harper the Hypocrite hosted the "Saving Every Woman, Every Child" global summit on maternal, newborn and child health in Toronto from May 28 to 30, 2014.  Very nice. At the Summit, Harper announced Canada's commitment of $3.5 billion to improve the health of mothers and children for the period of 2015–2020 and to support global efforts to end the preventable deaths of mothers, newborn and children younger than age five. Also very, very nice! On September 25, 2014, during his address at the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Prime Minister Harper also announced that Canada, along with its partners, had founded the Global Financing Facility for Every Woman Every Child, in order to provide the critical financial infrastructure to mobilize the capital to improve health services for women and children, and would contribute $200 million in its support from its $3.5 billion five year commitment.  Even nicer Harper! BUT BUT BUT! Here's the Harper HYPOCRISY: during his speech, when donating billions of dollars to this cause,  Harper stated, "There is a moral imperative to saving the lives of vulnerable women and children in some of the poorest countries around the world when it is in our power to do so." SAY WHAT HARPER! Why do you commit BILLIONS of dollars and see the moral imperative for women and children around the world but you do NOT see the moral imperative, or commit a dime, for an Inquiry for Missing & Murdered Women and Children in your own country!

383. Harper racially SLURRED every Muslim in the world in a CBC interview with Peter Mansbridge, referring to their religion as "Islamicism" and warning they are terrorists. The Islamic Supreme Council of Canada immediately urged Muslims to speak out against Harper's remarks about their religion.The council said Harper's words damaged efforts to bridge cultural gaps and fight extremist activities in Canada. It wanted Imams in its affiliated mosques to condemn the comments prayer gatherings.The council also urged Canadians to contact the Harper's office to demand an apology for "insulting the faith of 1,600,000,000 Muslims worldwide. "How can Mr. Harper associate Islam with radicalism and fanaticism?" the group asked in a statement."We are working hard to bring people of all faiths together to fight extremism and radicalism but Mr. Harper's comments about Islam have damaged those efforts."

384. Harper's inexperience, government waste, and ineptness was reflected perfectly in his CON-highly-touted, but Titanic-like, disastrous maternity leave Employment Insurance Preggie Programme for self-employed business people. This stupidity was a major and integral part of Harper's vote-getting strategy of the 2008 CON election platform, which many voters bought into; hook, line and sinker. (Seriously: if Harper says a CON scheme will work, some people actually believe him!)  Well, read on. Harper SHOULD have consulted experts, including self-employed business people FIRST. In one minute he'd have learned he would WASTE tens of millions of dollars. (Then again, he does not consult with scientists on scientific matters ...) Harper would have learned that hard-working, self-employed Canadians take as LITTLE TIME OFF as possible. It is the nature of their SUCCESS. But Harper, who shuts down Parliament at will when he is a failure, (repeatedly sending 308 highly-paid MPs home), wouldn't comprehend the nature of self-employment: to keep it successful you MUST keep working. This proves that his ineptness is another factor in how Harper destroyed Canada's once-Liberal-rich Treasury; by proroguing Parliament at will. From documents obtained through the Access to Information Act, Harper's idiotic and highly touted Preggie Programme, (administered by Harper's ring-kisser, then Employment Minister, CON MP Pierre "Skippy" Poilievre, who has never worked in business), INSERT: [but has nice hair though], which promised to be a "self-paying" CON scheme, actually COST hard-working Canadian Taxpayers millions of dollars! Harper and Skippy told Canadians an estimated 300,000 to 500,000 pregnant Canadians would sign up. It has been learned 2,316 claims were filed, worth $21,100,000 in benefits. The CON participation projections were out by 99.5 PER CENT! How much did this "self-paying" CON scheme cost to administer? $39,600,000! Harper's lack of business knowledge cost hard-working Canadians $18,500,000! And RIGHT now, during the summer and fall of 2015, Harper is going coast to coast to coast touting new, UNTRIED programmes. Again! After this schmozzle, which helped to blow away a Treasury filled by the Liberals with tens of billions of dollars, Harper does not have an ounce of credibility left!

385.  Harper's Director of Political Operations, CON Fred DeLorey, sent a letter nationwide to all CON voters asking them to donate five bucks to the CON Party because, (are you ready for this?), the Toronto Star called Harper a sociopath. Seriously, the Toronto Star said Harper has "Harper’s dead sociopathic eyes." Actually, Mr. DeLorey had a very valid point. If the Toronto Star had done any research they would have learned that sociopaths are FOLLOWERS. Sociopaths FOLLOW psychopaths. Psychopaths do the leading.

386. Harper's poorly vetted and ridiculous Senate appointments cost hard-working Canadian taxpayers $1,000,000 in RCMP fees and expenses to investigate Duffy, Wallin and Brazeau!

387. Harper's HYPOCRISY could BACKFIRE because of his CON Caucus CON Johns: Harper passed Bill C-36, his new, oppressive Prostitution Law which targets "Johns" or men who use Sexual Workers. Harper wants to eliminate the world's oldest profession from Canadian soil. In fact, Sexual Workers claim Harper has done nothing but make their profession highly more dangerous. Under oath, in a Senate Committee Hearing, (from which she was tossed by CON Chairman of the committee, Senator Bob Runciman), retired dominatrix Terri-Jean Bedford testified that many of Harper's CON MPs are in fact CON Johns, regularly using sexual workers in Ottawa when they are sitting, away from their wives. (Or would that be lying?) Under oath, Ms. Bedford claimed she has all the CON Johns' names, and threatened to release them to the public. Is this CON JOHN threat why so many "rats have jumped ship"? Many political junkie inquiring minds want to know.

388. Harper's Vetting skills are ridiculous. He has appointed:

Patrick Brazeau - criminally charged, assault, drug possession

Pamela Wallin – under RCMP investigation

Michael Sona - criminally convicted, election fraud

Arthur Porter- charges pending, fraud, conspiracy, money laundering, since deceased.

Vic Toews- convicted for violating Manitoba Election Law, affair with nanny.

Bev Oda- resigned after lavish expenses

Mike Duffy - criminally charged, fraud

Nigel Wright - resigned after Duffy payoff

John Duncan - resigned after writing to Tax Court, ignored State of Emergency- Attawapiskat

Bruce Carson - already convicted of fraud, charged again in 2012 for influence peddling

Julian Fantino- demoted from cabinet post for incompetence.

Irving Gerstein- charged for violating Elections Act, charges dropped when Tories paid $52,000 fine Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu – Under investigation, senate expenses

Nathan Jacobson – criminally charged, fraud, racketeering

Peter Penashue - resigned because of illegal campaign contributions.

Dean Del Mastro- criminally convicted for election fraud.

Saulie Zajdel – MP candidate/on James Moore's staff, convicted of corruption and breach of trust.

Don Meredith – had affair with a minor.

389. Cape Breton Veterans, under the hard-working Veteran Ron Clarke, organizing Veterans NOT to vote for Harper in Election 2015

390. Harper HYPOCRISY: went all goo-goo over history when Franklin's ship was located, this ... after DESTROYING libraries, archives and historical documents! Where's the sense in that?

391. Harper does not understand Ontario

392. Harper's CON MP Christian Paradis BARRED Natural Resources Canada Scientist Scott Dallimore from talking to the Press about floods that occurred 13,000 years ago, citing that subject had wide-ranging implications. AND ONLY THEN, when allowed, the press conference had to be FIXED with pre-arranged questions and proposed responses!

393. Harper SECRETLY signed the Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement, LOCKING IN Canada for 31 years! On this THIRTY-ONE YEAR agreement, Harper allowed just ONE HOUR of discussion at the trade committee, NO vote in Parliament, and NO public consultations. Canadians buying a wide-screen TV are more meticulous! Is it any surprise Harper's style of vetting has brought so many crooks into the Senate and Prime Minister's Office?

394. Harper MUZZLED Kristi Miller, Department of Fisheries and Oceans scientist, on her groundbreaking and complex research into the decline of Pacific salmon stock

395. Harper's War on Science brings Canada international shame

396. CBC's Steven Guiton, the Crown corporation's Vice-president of Technology and Chief Regulatory Officer told the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission that Canadians should pay for CBC broadcasting. What a coincidence! Harper has been eliminating CBC's Federal funding.

397. Harper advised Federal civil servants that he intends to cancel their $5 billion in sick leave and disability insurance already earned. Their union believes Harper will use a budget bill to unilaterally impose a sick leave deal before the courts determine whether the legislation is constitutional.

398. Harper's Chief Policy Analyst and troubleshooter from 2006 to 2008, Bruce Carson, charged with influence peddling.

399. Parliamentary Budget Officer Jean-Denis Frechette threatens to take Harper to court for lack of transparency and accountibility.

400. Harper CORRUPTION: The CONs tried to undermine, interfere with, take over, falsely obtain union funding and destabilize University Campus Student Unions across Ontario, according to documents released by Wikileaks. Shelley Melanson, Chairperson of the Canadian Federation of Students-Ontario, when advised of the leaked strategy, stated, "Campus students' unions are there to represent students and should be free from the partisan interference of federal and provincial parties. The contribution of students' unions and OPIRGs to the broader social justice movement in Ontario is important and it's disturbing to think that Canada's governing party would use its resources to undermine democratic student organizations in this way."

ref: 1902/1926