Day 26: August 27, 2015: Reasons NOT to Vote CON #'s 626 to 650

626. Harper is eroding Canada's social safety nets and pushing our Nation back into the cruelty of the 1920s and 1930s warns 92-year-old author Harry Leslie Smith. Mr. Smith is the author of Harry’s Last Stand: How the World My Generation Built is Falling Down and What We Can Do to Save it. He has been touring the country with the Broadbent Institute.

627. Harper's CON Finance Minister MP Joe Oliver was booked to speak at a Men's Only Club in Toronto but Harper has steadfastly refused to attend a debate on Women's Issues. See the CON misogyny here?

628. Harper declared his predecessor, former CON Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, persona non grata in the CON Party over his dealings with lobbyist Karlheinz Shreiber.

629. Harper's minions spread a rumour that former CON Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, was no longer a card-carrying member of the CON Party.

630. Harper's CON MP Parm Gill has been charged by a Liberal supporter for apparent fraud for charging his credit card for a substantial donation without his knowledge; an action he thinks the RCMP should investigate. The amount charged by the CON party on his credit card was $400. Jagdish Singh, a long-time Liberal donor, lives in Brampton, Ontario which is in CON Gill's riding. For the past several years, Singh has donated $400 to former Liberal Scarborough—Agincourt MP Jim Karygiannis.He said he doesn't know Karygiannis and never met him. But a man named Harbhajan Singh (no relation), whom he met at a friend's house, asked Jagdish if he would donate — and being a Liberal since 1992 — he agreed.But a few days ago, Singh discovered his credit card had been used without his authorization to make a $400 donation to Gill's Conservative Brampton North riding association.

631. Harper hates teachers.

632. Harper's CON candidate Valerie Assouline in the riding of Pierrefonds, Quebec is so disorganized in Election 2015 that she has called TWICE for John Drummond's murdered daughter Kelly-Anne; fatally stabbed by her boyfriend in 2004! Kelly-Anne’s murder and the subsequent conviction of her killer were widely covered by Quebec media over the years.

633. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Water Pollution Research Lab in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

634. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the St. Andrew Biological Station.

635. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Canadian Scientific Submersible Facility.

636. Harper treats the Government like it's HIS, not the public service it is supposed to be: SERVING Canadians. He treats Canadians like they are expendable, with no value, treating Canadians like they are customers of HIS business!

637. Harper's efforts to combat climate change have been grossly inadequate according to the November, 2014 report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

638. Harper's commitment to keep global warming below the internationally agreed upon 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, (above preindustrial levels), is going to be very hard according to the November, 2014 report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

639. Harper has helped to fail Climate Change so bad Canada will probably see nearly ice-free summers in the Arctic Ocean before mid-century, according to the November, 2014 report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

640. Harper has helped to fail Climate Change so bad Dangerous sea level rise will very likely impact 70 percent of the world's coastlines by the end of the century.according to the November, 2014 report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

641. Even if Harper acts now, there's a real risk of "abrupt and irreversible" changes in Climate Change, according to the November, 2014 report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

642. Harper made an Election 2015 Adoption Expense Tax Credit promise using a new CON poster composed with an image of ... NO KIDDING ... an American family! (They are models from Seattle.) This is typical of the CON sell out to foreigners! Even though the job was small, why did AMERICAN models and photographer get paid? Does Harper find Canadians THAT ugly? Canada has 35,000,000 people but the CONs apparently can't find 3 or 4 Canadians suitable enough to model for them for advertising purposes? So AMERICANS got paid to model for a CON ad. And an AMERICAN photographer got paid to do a CON ad! Are there no professional photographers in Ottawa, Ontario capable of doing a shot like this? What will be next? Will they use an Atlantic salmon to pose as a Pacific salmon? And these idiots run a country? Like, really!

643. Harper and Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott had a full day of talks in 2014 building a "conservative alliance among 'like-minded' countries" to try to dismantle global efforts on climate change, according to the Sydney [Australia] Morning Herald. The Morning Herald reported:

"At a press conference that day, Harper applauded Abbott's efforts to gut Australia's carbon tax. "You’ve used this international platform to encourage our counterparts in the major economies and beyond to boost economic growth, to lower taxes when possible and to eliminate harmful ones, most notably the job-killing carbon tax," Harper said. He added that "we shouldn't clobber the economy" by pursuing an emissions trading scheme or a carbon tax. This is how Canada and Australia's top leaders frame global warming. The two stress that they will always choose short-term economic gain first, disregarding scientific findings and even the interests of their political allies in the process."

644. Harper has spent more than $2,300,000 to photograph CON cabinet ministers.

645. Harper's CON Candidates, including Cabinet Ministers, the Federal 2015 Election have been advised not to attend all-candidates’ meetings or speak to reporters during the campaign, according to a CON party source. In an email, CON spokeswoman Meagan Murdoch said: “Candidates are of course encouraged to talk to voters in their ridings about Prime Minister Harper’s low-tax plan to create jobs and economic growth.”

646. Harper’s Director of Issues Management, Nick Koolsbergen, was caught by the Press in the hallways of the Ottawa courthouse dressed in a hooded sweatshirt and conversing with the PMO’s former Director of Issues Management Chris Woodcock during breaks in Woodcock’s testimony.Criminal defense lawyer Michael Spratt said it is fine for a witness to speak with other people while under cross-examination, but “any discussion about the evidence or the testimony (is) not only problematic, it could be an offence.”Conservative campaign staffer Christopher McFarlane was also spotted at the Duffy trial, assigned to keep tabs on testimony. Harper was asked at a campaign stop Wednesday whether Koolsbergen was told to “instruct” Woodcock.“Look, these are matters before the court and we don’t interfere in them,” Harper said.

647. Harper is continuing to bury his head in the sand when it comes to pension issues, according to Mitzie Hunter, Ontario's Associate Minister of Finance.

648. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Ice Information Partnership.

649. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Motor Vehicle Fleet.

650. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Inshore Rescue Boat Program.

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