Day 12: August 13, 2015: Reasons NOT to Vote CON #'s 276 to 300

276. In the spirit of Harper attacks and bullying against Justin Trudeau, in September, 2014, Harper's "ethical oil" adviser, Ezra Levant, called Justin Trudeau's father, Pierre Elliott Trudeau a slut. Levant said, "“Liona Boyd. Margot Kidder. Kim Cattrall. He banged anyone, he was a slut.” Levant began his rant because Justin had kissed a bride, at the bride's request; a total fun, pre-arranged photobomb. Justin had been at the Hilton Hotel in Markham, Ontario for a general Liberal meeting when Trudeau’s photographer, Adam Scotti, snapped the picture. End of story? Nope! Levant used that innocent fun moment as an opportunity to viciously attack Justin Trudeau's deceased father. Harper and his advisers have zero political morals: attack, attack, attack; especially Justin, wherever and whenever they can.

277. Harper, apparently an egomaniac, because: he authorized SEVEN cameramen to take pictures of him, (maybe in an impossible effort to photograph a good side?), when Harper attended the September, 2014 Climate Summit, which ... (can you even explain this thinking) .... he REFUSED to attend in New York City! Say what? WAIT! If he did NOT attend the Climate Summit, then why did Harper go and why did he need SEVEN photographers taking images of him? Well, because Harper went to attend the Summit's Official Dinner. (Who wants to pass up a good meal, eh!) So, in conclusion, we have to presume Harper loves to see pictures of himself eating. But sadly, how much did it cost hard-working Canadian Taxpayers to subsidize seven photographers' travel, hotel, and meals? And to put Harper and his security crew into the air and back! Is it any wonder that Harper burned through the Liberal Surplus over eight years with such egotistical, reckless spending, being just one of thousands of examples of poor financial stewardship? (Would you like your prime rib shaped like a gazebo or artificial lake Sir?) Can you smell Harper's sense of entitlement here, or would you like this CON money-blowing example of reckless spending re-written in crayons?

278. Harper privilege: the official report on underage drinking at Harper’s home was released with almost all details blacked out by RCMP! Paramedics have said the RCMP called them to the residence around 1 a.m. for a drunk, underage woman. In comparison, in the homes of Canada's First Nations this type of irresponsible parenting results in the removal of the children from the home by Family Services.

279. Harper FASCIST-styled governance: SPYING on Canadians! The CON-controlled RCMP was INVESTIGATED by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for their warrant-less collection of Canadians’ personal data. The RCMP had never met with the Privacy Commissioner to ensure that its requests complied with privacy laws.

280. Harper was SLAMMED by President Obama MANY TIMES in his speech at the United Nations on September 23, 2014!

281. Harper FASCIST-styled Governance: in less than two years, the CONs spent $20,000,000 MONITORING the media! 

282. Harper-styled hypocrisy: his Environment Minister, CON MP Leona Aglukkaq announced at the UN Climate Summit in September, 2014 that Canada has new regulations to lower greenhouse gas emissions in cars and trucks, (while Canada's Tar Sands emissions are destroying the planet!) What an embarrassment. Every other country in the world at the Climate Summit must have thought she was a fool for thinking they'd think that was acceptable.

283. Harper's Secret Election Tour. What a cow! Nova Scotian Conservatives, getting their first opportunity on the weekend of August 15, 2015 to see Harper for the first time since the 2015 Election was called, were shocked to find out Harper's Secret Election Tour was being held clandestinely. Nova Scotian Conservatives were forced to register online to find out the secret location of the event. Once registered, an email was sent from the CONs revealing, 24 to 72 hours before the meeting, where Harper was to show up.

284. Harper et al were threatened with a lawsuit by rogue Prime Minister Office staffers when Harper's office took control of the “independent” Mike Duffy investigation

285. Harper tosses reporter from 2015 CON election rally for asking attendees if they support pot!

286. Harper CON MP John Williamson criticized for despicably politicizing soldier’ death

287. Harper REFUSED to expedite Calgarian Anya Sass and her husband out of the middle of the Syrian war zone, blocking her attempt to get them to safety. Harper explained it would take TWO YEARS to screen his application! Would it take that long if Anya was Harper's daughter? Under Harper, does Canada now have a double standard for saving Canadians isolated in the middle of a war zone?

Anya Sass, a Calgarian, and her husband, 

blocked inside the Syrian war zone by Harper

288. Harper did NOT fill the vacated Chief Public Health Officer's position for FIFTEEN MONTHS!The role of the Chief Public Health Officer, who leads the Public Health Agency of Canada, was designed after the deadly outbreak of SARS, (Severe acute respiratory syndrome), in 2003, and was meant to provide non-partisan, apolitical expertise to Canadians during national health crises. Liberal MP Carolyn Bennett stated, “From the day the Conservatives took over, the chief public health officer doesn’t seem able to fill his duties in way it had been designed,” she said. “Who would want to do this job, if you’re going to be undercut at every turn?”

289. Harper BROKE Canada's relationship with First Nations People according to United Nations report

290. Harper's fascist-styled PARANOIA: he has SPIED ON hundreds of peaceful Canadian protests!

291. Harper's democracy death knell: he shut down debate 100 times in the last session of Parliament before Election 2015

292. Harper hypocrisy: he tried to keep the lid on a $15,000,000,000, (yes, that is BILLIONS of dollars), arms deal with Saudi Arabia. Harper has accused Saudi Arabia in the past of selling unethical oil because of their Human Rights abuses.

293. Harper pulled the plug on $30,000,000 earmarked for his touted Youth Employment Strategy

294. Harper cancelled $97,100,000 promised for 16 major social service programs

295. Harper has run Canada for a full decade using the 14 principles of fascism being: a powerful continuing nationalism, identifying enemies & scapegoats, (he even has a Harper Enemy List!), rampant sexism, obsession with national security, (which he has really ramped up with speeches continually containing fear, bigotry, hate and terrorism), corporate power is protected, a disdain for intellectuals and the arts, (he has even fired any Federal scientist speaking out about climate change), rampant Cronyism and corruption, disdain for Human Rights, (sadly, even the United Nations, meaning almost EVERY Nation in the World, has charged him with this abuse), supremacy of the military, controlled mass media, religion and government intertwined, labour power is suppressed, obsession with crime and punishment, and fraudulent elections, (Harper's team has been charged with election fraud in EVERY election he has been in!).

296. Harper's appointed fraudulent Senators ignored their staffs' concerns about their stealing from hard-working Canadian Taxpayers!

297. Harper reneges on emissions targets as Tar Sands production takes its toll

298. Harper closes the Vancouver Coast Guard communications base

Harper closed a Coast Guard station  to save $700,000 .... putting lives at risk ... but spent TEN TIMES that to promote his budget! Wake up Canada!

299. Harper is an obstructive and dangerous force upon the planet, per Bill McKibben

300. Harper's fiscal management is a tale of reversal and failure, not triumph

ref:1977/1986

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

Day 10: August 11, 2015: Reasons NOT to Vote CON #'s 226 to 250

226. In one of Harper's most fascist, democracy-killing acts as Prime Minister, using his fraudulent-won majority government, Harper has BANNED Elections Canada from using their democratic, independent rights. Harper has actually STRIPPED Elections Canada of their RIGHT to encourage Canadians to get out and vote! Why? It should be noted that 9,251,160* Canadians did not vote on May 2, 2011. This high, suppressed vote result, together with Team Harper's confirmed election fraud, most assuredly gave the CONs their majority and ultimate control of Elections Canada. This control of Elections Canada allowed Harper to pass his fascist election bill which greatly suppresses voter turnout and Canadians' ability to freely vote. And sadly, Harper could win another majority in 2015 because of this fascist law banning ads which encourages all eligible Canadians to vote.

(*out of 23,971,740 eligible voters, only 14,720,580 Canadians voted)

In Twain's day, Harper wasn't using Voter Suppression techniques. Imagine his outrage if he was alive to see this!

227. Harper's police state-styled fascism: changed law retroactively to clear RCMP of criminal charges; using an Omnibus budget bill and his majority government.

228. Harper WITHDREW Canada from the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, the ONLY country in the WHOLE WORLD to withdraw! This was hardly surprising on Harper's part since the Tar Sands has now made Canada the World's LEADING country in deforestation, even AHEAD of the Amazon-busting Brazil! Harper's reason? He claimed the UN convention was "too bureaucratic"!

229. Under Harper, Canada was the ONLY North Atlantic Treaty Organization Member REFUSING TO SIGN the Arms Trade Treaty on Conventional Weapons! Roland Paris of the University of Ottawa's Centre for International Policy Studies, on noting Harper's lack of foreign diplomacy, stated, "Rather than maintaining a virtuous circle of effective bilateral and multilateral diplomacy abroad, Canada has been marginalizing itself. Since Mr. Harper failed to win Canada a Security Council seat in 2010, he and his ministers have derided the UN for its 'moral relativism'. Canada used to be a leader in multilateral arms control, spearheading the campaign against anti-personnel land mines. Now, we are laggards, the only NATO member that still hasn’t signed the Arms Trade Treaty on conventional weapons".

230. Harper uses hard-earned Canadian Taxpayers' money to create Conservative Party advertising, despite the CON Party having a multi-million dollar "war chest." Why didn't the RCMP confiscate records to prove this theft of public money, initiated by a prosecutor's demand for an investigation? Does this prove Harper controls the courts and police?

231. Harper’s Decade of Diplomatic Darkness

232. Harper-controlled RCMP blocks Opposition Member of Parliament from the Parliament Buildings! Here's exactly what happened as reported by the Opposition MP. "I told the RCMP officer that I was a Member of Parliament," NDP MP Yvon Godin told the House. "He [RCMP Officer] said, and these are the exact words he used: 'I don't care.' After that, I [MP Godin] said 'We're having a vote in the House of Commons.' He answered, 'I don't care.' I told him that we had privilege and that I had the right to go to the House of Commons during votes. He said, 'I don't care. I am under strict orders and nobody is going through." 

233. Harper caught in a lie on a Justin quote by Althia Raj, of the Huffington Post

234. Harper reversed the RCMP’s ban on two assault rifle brands on eve of Election 2015 to win gun owners' votes

The assault rifles banned by the RCMP which Harper approved for sale Canada-wide to win votes in Election 2015

235. Harper uses a travel ban as a fear and terror tactic to win votes in Election 2015

236. Harper gives $40,000,000 of hard-working Canadian Taxpayers' money, (two payments of $15 and $25 million each), to friend Bruce Carson, (a convicted criminal with a record of five convictions), at Canada School of Energy and Environment, a clearinghouse for industrial energy lobbyists

237. Harper sticks his nose up at average Canadians and refuses to campaign in public for Election 2015! To even get to see him you you need an approved pass into a CON event

238. Harper's human rights violation of little children: Harper is IMPRISONING refugee children with suspected gang members and violent offenders RIGHT HERE IN CANADA, as revealed in a Canadian Red Cross Society inspection report. Does the United Nations know of these deplorable CON human rights violations? One would expect something like this to be right out of an ISIS Terrorist Operations Manual, not something overseen under Harper's Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. And Harper calls ISIS the terrorists. Look who's the terrorist: our own Prime Minister. This has been done on HIS WATCH! Sick and disgusting. Children, no matter where they are from, should NEVER be put in with gang members and violent offenders. This is not MY Canada! Harper promised to turn Canada into something we would not recognize and and he sure has: previous governments would NEVER have accepted the abuse of children like this. NEVER!

239. Harper lie: he has refused to fulfill his promise to reform Access to Information (ATI) to make the government more accountable and transparent to Canadians.

240. Harper fired Linda Keen, President of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission not just over policy differences, but apparently also because when he had her background checked, found out that in the distant past she had ties to the Liberals. Harper railed about it. This press report claim is hardly surprising as it goes hand in hand with Harper's speech in Calgary that he had rid Canada of Liberals, saying they had gone the way of bell bottom trousers and disco balls. Or his speech at Rob Ford's mother's place where he intended to turn Ontario blue.

241. Harper, using his "Un"Fair Elections Bill passed with a majority government won with the help of election fraud, has stripped the power to launch investigations into election frauds and violations from the Chief Electoral Officer.

242. Documents expose Harper's obsession with control. Once in power, Harper took extreme steps to control the message at ALL federal events, a process that has blurred the time-honoured separation of non-partisan public servants and that officials and public-policy analysts say is undermining democracy. Harper scripts every CON MP's public event using a potent, little-known communication tools called Message Event Proposals. These Message Event Proposals have become the political tool for literally putting words in the mouths of cabinet ministers, federal bureaucrats, low-profile MPs on the barbecue circuit, and seasoned diplomats abroad. Harper's Message Event Proposals highly contradict, and add further proof to what a hypocrite and liar Harper is, because Harper's core campaign promise that brought Prime Minister Stephen Harper to power; the introduction introducing a new era of transparency and accountability in government. A former Harper office employee stated, “We discussed every single issue and micromanaged every news release — everything. Pretty much any event, or any roll-out of an announcement, would have a Message Event Proposal that would lay out the strategy.” Harper has refused to comment on Message Event Proposals. Is it any wonder Harper takes ONLY prepared questions from the Press? How's that for transparency and accountability! If you know your history, these Message Event Proposals are exactly the kind of fascist-styled, control tools used as a propaganda resource by the 1930's German government to fill the German peoples' minds with lies and innuendo.

243. Harper, by using his fraudulently won majority, has made entry into any war supposedly a CON only decision. HOWEVER, since Harper controls his Caucus 100% through fear and intimidation, Canada's entry into any war is IN FACT a fascist-styled, Harper-only decision.

244. Harper LIED to Canadians about the war in Iraq: he PULLED Canada into that war! Harper declared the USA asked Canada to participate. The USA CONFIRMED they did NOT ask for help. The USA confirmed Harper offered to go to war!

245. CON MP, turned Speaker of the House, Andrew Sheer, killed a vote to extend hate crime protection to transgender people. Canadians must ask themselves why would a Speaker of the House slap transgender people down, taking away their rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms? Although Scheer is a CON MP, he is supposed to be neutral in his role as Speaker. How is bullying transgender people from the Speaker's chair in the House of Commons being neutral? Who does this REALLY point to? Since taking the Speaker's chair, Sheer has made a mockery of Canada's Parliamentary system many times, yet he keeps the chair!

246. Harper named in a DEFAMATION SUIT by Muslims. Harper has PERSONALLY harvested a CON dogma of attack against Muslims. This bigotry and racism does not stop at Harper's door either. On a radio show, one of Harper's CON MPs, Larry Miller said, "Muslims should go back where the hell they are from."

247. Harper's rats jump from his ship. Perth-Wellington CON MP Gary Schellenberger won't seek re-election.

248. Harper, who hypocritically IGNORED other world crises at the United Nations for TEN YEARS, and GAVE UP Canada's revered Security Council Seat, has used the ISIS beheadings and slaughter for election year political gain, according to the World Federalist Movement, a coalition of former diplomats and public servants

249. Harper wants USA-styled bank deregulation

250. Harper wants to break up Universal Health Care.

ref: 1996/2007

Day 9: August 10, 2015: Reasons NOT to Vote CON #'s 201 to 225

201. Harper, Canada's embarrassment, delivers speech to empty UN Assembly. The rest of the world is not interested in his bull.

202. Photo Op to make Harper look good cost hard-working Canadian Taxpayers $338,055

203. Harper LIE: he told Canadians he called an early 2015 Election to save Taxpayers money. This was a BLATANT LIE. In fact, hard-working Canadian Taxpayers are being forced to pay an EXTRA $13,000,000 to the Conservative Party for election expenses! This fix was in when Harper used his majority in Parliament to amend the Canada Elections Act in 2014. This was a well thought-out plan to screw Canadians right in their pocketbooks. It gets worse! After the election, Harper's new law forces Canadian Taxpayers to reimburse the Conservative Party FIFTY PER CENT of EVERYTHING they spent to run the election! Yes, Harper passed a REBATE law that will give his part fifty cents back on EVERY dollar they spend. What was Harper's LIE? He said, “…it’s important that these campaigns be funded by the parties themselves, rather than taxpayers.” Well guess what. Hard-working Canadians are on the hook for multi millions of dollars to Harper and his CONs, and Harper, who knows exactly what the CON party will get back, because he voted this law in himself, LIED about it, right into a camera, with a straight face!!! Ralph Goodale, Liberal MP said, "While the economy plunges back into recession and middle class families struggle to make ends meet, Stephen Harper’s only focus is funneling millions from taxpayers into Conservative Party coffers." So every time you see a CON lawn sign, or a CON election party, or a CON Riding election office, or even a pen being used by a CON candidate, remember BEFORE you vote: YOU PAID FOR HALF OF HARPER'S ELECTION GREED!"

204. Harper insists that the RCMP handle Missing & Murdered Native Women and NOT call an Inquiry. SAY WHAT! RCMP Officers have been accused of raping and abusing Aboriginal Women! Connect those two dots. Can you see Harper's misogyny? No???? Okay, how about this analogy then: that would be like Harper saying, "If a man rapes his wife, let the husband investigate it himself!" Now do you see why an Inquiry is IMPERATIVE?!?!

205. Harper's Canadian fossil fuel-based economy has collapsed on many fronts, not only in Alberta, but from coast to coast, according to Chantal Hébert, CBC panelist and National Affairs writer for the Toronto Star

206. Harper believes in Leo Strauss' disturbing teachings! Strauss believed in the inherent inequality of humanity; that most people are too stupid to make informed decisions about their political affairs and that elite philosophers, like Harper, must decide on the affairs of the state for the people.

207. Harper's CON MP Brad Butt LIED in the House of Commons saying he had witnessed voter fraud during the last election. 

208. Harper forced the CLOSING of Canada's internationally respected Think Tank: the North-South Institute by cutting off its funding. Concerned about this forced closure by Harper, four famous Canadians from a cross-section of political parties and views, being Paul Martin, Joe Clark, Ed Broadbent and Joseph Ingram, (a Past President of the North-South Institute), wrote, "The recent closing of the North-South Institute as a result of discontinued federal government funding is a loss both for Canada and for the global community.The daily dose of news – Ebola in West Africa, the rising incidence of terrorism in the Middle East and Africa, the millions of immigrants and refugees fleeing bad governance and poverty – is graphically symptomatic of ill-conceived and inadequate support for solving today’s international development challenges.Amongst the major aid donors, Canada’s current government has been a significant contributor to that inadequacy. Canada’s aid levels are now amongst the lowest of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development donors at about 0.2 per cent of national income. And to follow this up with the progressive dismantling of the former CIDA and other publicly funded development institutions, such as Rights and Democracy, is beyond comprehension. This reduced support suggests a failure to grasp the significance of today’s threats to global stability and to Canada’s long-term economic and social well-being.The closing of NSI constitutes the jettisoning of a critically important tool of Canadian leadership internationally, exercised not through Canadian military or economic might, but rather through our capacity to generate and globally disseminate knowledge and best-practice alternatives. In 2011, 2012 and 2013, NSI was internationally recognized as the world’s leading development policy think-tank with an annual budget of less than $3-million.NSI’s policy recommendations – in areas as diverse as improving the impact of the private sector on economic growth; maximizing benefits for communities affected by mining and other extractives; ensuring benefits and human rights for indigenous peoples; enhancing for women the benefits from international trade agreements; and using “big data” for more effective public policy – have all been recognized as significant contributions to international development. As were the international conferences NSI hosted in Ottawa in 2013 on African natural resource management and in 2011 on the future of multilateralism.More recently, NSI was the only Canadian institution invited to contribute to the international task force led by British Prime Minister David Cameron on devising the post-2015 set of sustainable development goals – a policy framework for achieving a more stable pattern of economic and social development globally. In the absence of such a framework, political and security risks for the global community will only intensify.Although NSI had over the past three years been successful in attracting new sources for funding research, including from mining companies, foreign governments, and U.S. foundations, it would have needed modest funding from Canada’s government for a three-year transition to cover part of its operating costs. Yet, without disclosing why, the federal government effectively chose to shut down this internationally respected Canadian asset. All this at a time when we need an independent, non-partisan voice dedicated to dealing with some of the world’s most critical policy challenges."

209. Harper attacked Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin. Thomas Heintzman, past president of the Canadian Bar Association, said, “I’ve never seen such a shot taken at a court, and my concern is that it’s not cheap… It’s a very expensive shot at a court that will undermine its credibility and its perceived independence in this country.”

210. Harper's degradation of politics as described by Frank A. Pelaschuk states, "Harper’s work. It is vile, ugly and corrupt. Standing up to Harper and his crew can be a hazardous business; it can leave your reputation in tatters, your patriotism questioned, your privacy invaded, your trust violated. The Harper gang believe themselves misunderstood. They believe every skeptical voice raised against them is the voice of the enemy. They believe the public ignorant and uniformed. For that, they blame the media, the scholars and scientists, the Supreme Court justices, and you and I if we oppose them. So Harper and gang use loopholes to make it difficult if not impossible to apply successfully to access to information. By the time some do get the information, it is often too late and useless because of the passage of time or because so heavily redacted. Even though this is, in theory, our government and the Harper gang our employees, they act as if we are nuisances and prefer that we remain uninformed and ignorant. Harper and his gang obstruct at every opportunity and, because they are fearful and suspicious, treat us all as threats. And, because they see us as threats, they would spy on us behind bills meant to catch cyberbullies and pedophiles. The Harper gang is afraid of frank, open, and honest discussion. They pass legislation that is hidden, disguised, undiscoverable until too late and condemn those who demand a full accounting of those laws including full disclosure. They are impossible to shame because they know no morality except self-interest, economic interest, and the grasping and keeping of power. The Harper gang appears to speak with one voice with one thought. One looks at them and finds it almost impossible to differentiate one pig from another in a litter wallowing in the filth. They hear no one, listen to no one, accept no advice, least of all from “experts” and “scientists” and “scholars” for whom they hold the utmost contempt unless those same “experts”, “scientists”, and “scholars” just happen to hold the same concerns and narrow values as the Harper Conservatives.And because it is Harper and his gang, they set up to rig the game and invalidate your vote and silence your voice. They have the majority. Don’t like it? Too bad.Are these folks really offering you what you voted for? Do they really stand for what you believe and desire? Does honesty, integrity, decency, fairness, justice, humility, kindness, openness, transparency, democracy, dignity mean anything to you? If not, you really do belong with Harper and his thugs."

211. Canadian judiciary in Harper's crosshairs

212. Harper planning to track EVERY Canadian's foreign travel

213. Harper's CON MP Paul Calandra sheds alligator tears in House of Commons in fake apology

214. Harper demonstrated his TOTAL CONTEMPT for Canada's Press on September 25, 2014. Harper has REFUSED open press interviews in Canada for YEARS but on that date in New York City he gave an open Press Conference to the American Press!

215. Harper told American businessmen that the CONs will win Election 2015

216. Entitlement: Harper's Election 2015 campaign bus parks wherever they choose to in Toronto, despite the pandemic of cyclists' deaths in 2015 in Toronto!

LINK to the bus driver's refusal to move the bus to a safe parking spot: http://globalnews.ca/news/2153197/harper-campaign-bus-caught-blocking-bike-lane-in-downtown-toronto/?hootPostID=64f6f59a8e01e2f435f9acc542916498

217. Harper LIED at least EIGHT TIMES, (and still counting), during the MacLean's Election 2015 debate on August 6, 2015. 

In fact, almost every time Harper opened his mouth to make HIS points, it was a LIE, something overlooked by the Main Stream Media, most who summarized the debate by saying, "Harper held his own". How is this objective reporting? The media should be ashamed. Most of them are NOT WORTHY of their profession any longer. They should all go to FOX News where the order of the day is fairy tales. Since when is lying PROFUSELY holding one's own??!! Again, it is obvious Harper controls the press.

Here are the EIGHT KNOWN LIES:

LIE #1. Harper said, "We have a budget that is balanced now and other countries don't." The Parliamentary Budget Officer has announced the deficit will be about $1,000,000,000. Of course, that probably seems like small potatoes to a Prime Minister who approved almost the same amount, or $1,100,000,000 for Veterans Services, then withheld it. (See Reason #67)

LIE #2 Harper said, "the rest of the economy is growing." Statistics Canada announced a week before that the biggest contraction in the economy is happening in the manufacturing sector. That's correct, as bad as the economy is plummeting in the energy sector because Harper based Canada's economy on tar, IN FACT, Canada's manufacturing sector is doing WORSE!

LIE #3 Harper said "the reality is" thanks to his government's corporate tax cuts, Canada's "tax revenues actually went up from the business sector." According to Statistics Canada, corporate tax revenue is nowhere near what it was before Harper began slashing taxes for corporations.

LIE #4 Harper said backbenchers are operating "more freely" than ever! Harper's Caucus are controlled like trained seals, not allowed to think for themselves. Anyone acting independently is tossed from the CON Party. Harper has used that tactic to intimidate the rest, who want to hold on to their jobs to make the plum lifelong pension that begins a decade before the rest of hard-working Canadians, soon to be 12 years, thanks to Harper's announcement from his safe haven in Europe. His backbenchers are trained like monkeys. The CONs just released a YouTube combining 13 of his backbenchers election speeches. Every speech is exactly alike. They are told EXACTLY what to say. Does that sound like his backbenchers operate more freely? NOPE!

LIE #5  Harper said, “Greenhouse gas emissions have actually gone down.” Canada's greenhouse gasses have been steadily increasing since 2008, when they dipped briefly during Harper's first of two recessions caused by his ridiculous tar-based governing.

LIE #6  Harper said Canada has the "strongest employment growth in the G7." That is a HUGE lie because not only is Canada fourth and NOT first as harper lied to the Nation, but also Harper has the weakest job creation record of any Prime Minister since 1946!

LIE #7  Harper said, "[The Northern Gateway pipeline project] went through a rigorous environmental assessment." What a lie. What a laugh. First, if any Federally employed scientist dares to speak out about the Tar Sand's and pipeline's risk to the environment, they will be fired. Scientists live under that constant threat in Canada. The direct proof that Harper lied again is thew fact the Northern Gateway's Joint Review Panel's environmental assessment was just five short paragraphs. How in the hell is that "rigorous" especially when 300 scientists all co-signed a letter stating that the environmental assessment was a "narrow view of the environmental risks and costs."

It is an Eighth Wonder that Harper the Liar can stand on a podium facing an estimated 1,100,000 Canadians and lie through his teeth every time he opened his mouth!

(A special thanks to the research by Press Progress for their report on the first seven of Harper's debate lies, as listed to here.)

LIE #8 Harper said, "Ninety per cent of Canadians believe you should be able to show identification and who you are before you vote." There has been nothing to prove this as a fact, anywhere in Canada. At best, Harper was manipulating a poll about his Fair Elections Act. However, only a compulsive liar could blatantly utter such a ridiculous statement! 

218. Harper funds searches for white-skinned Franklin's death site and white-skinned John A. MacDonald's exact birthplace but refuses to fund an Inquiry into the deaths of red-skinned Native Women. See the racism here? Just join the three dots!

LINK to Franklin search

LINK to MacDonald search

219. Harper, in a fascist-styled, controlling edict, kept his CON Caucus whipped into line with a SECRET handbook on how to unleash chaos while serving as Parliamentary Committee Chairpersons.

220. Harper the HYPOCRITE delivered a speech at the United Nations on September 25, 2014 about solutions for world poverty and saving children's lives. Say WHAT???!!! Like, he cares! ONE: He just had JUST IGNORED the poverty State of Emergency in his OWN Country and TWO: He financed the GENOCIDE of children in Palestine!

The full text of Harper’s Hypocritical United Nations address:

Good evening. Mr. President, Mr. Secretary-General, Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen. It is both an honour and a pleasure for me to once again address this Assembly. For more than 70 years, Canada has supported the United Nations and its institutions, in the pursuit of world peace. On many occasions Canadians have put their lives on the line to deter active conflict between peoples. It’s a duty we accept and it’s a record of which we are proud. Today, there are many embattled parts of the world where the suffering of local populations and the threats to global security deserve our urgent attention, and I could easily use my entire time here on any one of them. There are however, other areas of service to humanity. It is to some of these that I wish to speak tonight. For, there is more to peace than the absence of war. Where human misery abounds, where grinding poverty is the rule, where justice is systematically denied, there is no real peace, only the seeds of future conflict. Of course, misery and injustice are not the only roots of war. We need only look at the world today to appreciate this. Then we understand how the worst of human nature – perverse ideologies, religious extremism, and the lust for power and plunder – can rob people in so many places of property, of hope and of life itself. That’s why Canada has always been ready and willing to join with other civilized peoples and to challenge affronts to the international order, affronts to human dignity itself, such as are today present in Eastern Europe, particularly Ukraine, in the Middle East, Iraq, Syria and elsewhere, and of course many parts of Africa. Canada’s positions on these issues are well known, and we will continue to contribute to the extent to which we are able in assisting our friends and allies in the international community to deal with these grave challenges. But while these extreme situations are being confronted, other problems, pandemics, climate change, and of course the problems of underdevelopment remain. And we feel strongly that no effort is ever in vain if it offers people an alternative to conflict and an opportunity to better their lives and those of their families. Canadians, therefore, seek a world where freedom, democracy, human rights and the rule of law are respected. We hold these things to be intrinsically right and good. And we also believe that they are the necessary foundation for a better world for more people, necessary for prosperity, and with prosperity comes hope, and with hope, the greater inclination of free peoples everywhere to find peaceful solutions to the things that divide them. Indeed, we believe that freedom, prosperity and peace form a virtuous circle. For this reason, the growth of trade between nations and the delivery of effective development assistance to ordinary people – simple, practical aid – these are the things that have become the signatures of our Government’s outreach in the world. Trade means jobs, growth and opportunities. It has made great nations out of small ones. The story of my own country, Canada, is a case in point. Historically, trade has built our country, just as today, it is reshaping our world. Trade means ordinary people can support their families and even dare to dream of something much more. Our Government has worked hard to establish a vast network of modern trade agreements. The trade agreements we have concluded tear down the barriers of tariff and excise, and enlarge markets and opportunities for buyers and sellers alike. Canada has now established such links with countries that today possess more than a quarter of the world’s people and nearly half the world’s business. And our free-trade network will grow larger yet. This is not, by the way, an exclusive club for wealthy nations. Canada has liberalized its trade with countries known more for their determination to succeed than for the size of their economies, thereby opening the way for them to access Canadian and other markets. There is no reason to stop now. As indicated by my colleague from Senegal, President Macky Sall, aid is needed for development but what is needed even more is investment. He is quite right. Yet, no matter how freely we trade, millions of people will for some time to come need a helping hand. Easily the most important example and the one closest to my heart, is the worldwide struggle upon which so many of you have been engaged, the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Initiative. Saving the lives of the world’s most vulnerable mothers, infants and children must remain a top global priority. That is, the world must honour the commitments made in this very room to mothers and children in the year 2000. And there has been remarkable progress. Thanks to inexpensive vaccines and the combined effort of multiple partners, more children are being vaccinated today than ever before. And as the importance of nutrition becomes better understood, more and more children are surviving. Thanks to simple, low-cost, easily accessible techniques, literally millions of mothers and children who, a mere 14 years ago, might have died today not only survive, but thrive. I think especially of the 2010 meeting of world leaders at Muskoka, that raised about seven and a half billion dollars, two billion of it from private donors. Based on that, the United Nations launched what the Secretary-General called the Every Woman, Every Child Initiative, with the goal of saving 16 million lives by 2016. An important aspect of this work has been to monitor both the receipt of monies pledged, and how they are used. The assurance of full accountability has allowed recipients to plan with greater certainty and donors to give with confidence. With His Excellency, whom you just heard, President Kikwete of Tanzania, it was my honour to co-chair the World Health Organization’s Information and Accountability Commission linked to this initiative. Ladies and gentlemen, on this, we have a clear vision and that vision is achievable. We know how to help many of these vulnerable people. We have seen what can be done. We want, therefore, simply to rally the passion and the will to make it happen. We are preventing, and we can prevent more deaths, deaths of thousands of children every day from easily preventable causes. We can stop thousands of mothers dying in childbirth who, with relatively little intervention, would survive. We also know who we need to be working with: new partnerships; partnerships that bring together governments, agencies of the UN – the World Health Organization, the World Food Program, UNICEF – with the private sector, partnerships that are producing real results and taking us to new heights of excellence. Here, I’m thinking of the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Network in Canada, a group that represents a broad base of Canadian civil society, and are key implementing partners on the ground. As many of you know, this past May in Toronto, Canada hosted the world’s leading actors on this subject. We heard the success stories, for example, the Micronutrient Initiative through which 180 million children received Vitamin A, pills costing pennies, but that drop child mortality by 25 per cent. We heard about the Vaccine Alliance, GAVI, and how during the three year period ¬between 2010 and 2013, immunizations saved the lives of two million children. We have partnerships to deliver better nutrition and partnerships to deliver better measurement, because vital statistics are critical. “You can’t manage what you can’t measure. And in this mission, we measure progress in precious lives saved. So every child needs a birth certificate. We also heard about the now greater demand for accountability, in regard not only to the vast sums of money pledged, but also the way in which that money is spent. So our consensus was clear. We have seen success, and we have momentum. Saving the lives of children and mothers is a fight we can win. To get it done, two things are needed now: the political focus and renewed financial commitment. I therefore urge this assembly, in the strongest terms, to ensure that in the evolving, post-2015 development agenda, maternal, newborn and child health remain a clear and top priority. And one of a limited number of priorities. That is the political focus we need. Then there is the financial commitment. I know we all have many competing priorities. But, to have come so far that to stop now would be a tragedy. I must tell you, I was very encouraged this afternoon at the Secretary General’s Every Woman Every Child event, when President Kim of the World Bank and other leaders announced new financing for the Bank’s Global Financing Facility For Every Woman, Every Child. This Facility will help developing countries access the financing required to improve their health systems. I am pleased to announce that Canada will financially support the World Bank’s Global Financing Facility For Every Woman, Every Child. We urge other countries to do likewise because, to provide viable solutions to prevent the tragic death of women and children, we need to increase budget allocations on the part of both donors and the developing countries. Now ladies and gentlemen, in closing let me just say this. There are many individual countries and many specific causes that will rightly occupy your, our, deliberations here this week. Let’s also not forget to also look beyond those crises, at the long-term opportunities and efforts that can truly transform the world. We have it in our power to create a better kind of world for our children’s children than we have today. And we should. For, it was never the intention of the founders of the United Nations, Canada being one of them, that ours would be a world where terrorists could get the resources necessary to sow death and destruction, but where workers and families could not get jobs and opportunities, or where mothers and children could not obtain the necessities required to live and to thrive. The world that Canada strives for is the world that the founders of the United Nations wanted from the beginning, as boldly articulated in their declaration of 1942: I quote, a world where ‘life, liberty, independence and religious freedom’ are defended, where ‘human rights and justice’ are preserved, and where all join ‘in a common struggle against the savage and brutal forces seeking to subjugate the world.’ In such a world, there can be prosperity for the impoverished, justice for the weak, and, for the desperate, that most precious of all things, hope. It’s easy to look at the many problems of the world today and become despondent. Yet, for all our failings there has been, for most of humanity, tremendous progress in my lifetime. Therefore, I am enough of an optimist to think that, because we can create a more prosperous, fairer and hopeful world, not only should we, but indeed, I believe we will find the will to do so. Thank you very much for your attention.

221. Harper LIED to a a New York Business Audience on September 24, 2014 when he told them that he does not spy on Canadians and collect their metadata. That was yet another in a countless list of this compulsive liar's untruths. Why? The Communications Security Establishment of Canada, (CSEC), is not only legally mandated to collect metadata, (data that details the circumstances around electronic communications), but has REPEATEDLY CONFIRMED that they do!

222. Feel the fascism: participants at CON events must now agree to a GAG ORDER!

223. Harper stated in his United Nations Speech on September 25, 2014 that capitalism, (ie: making corporations rich), will bring World Peace. DEFINITION of capitalism is an economic system in which trade, industry, and the means of production are largely or entirely privately owned and operated for profit. Guess Harper missed his own government department's report. Maybe someone can fill Harper in! Statistics Canada data showed that Canada’s corporate cash hoard was $626,000,000,000, (yes, that is billions), in the last quarter of 2013. This is money they have made and are HOGGING, doing SFA with it. Does Harper really think these companies give a flying puck about peace? Wouldn't that money be moving fast into worldwide humanitarian aid, the best way to bring about peace, if they did?

LINKS

Press clipping on Harper's UN speech

Press clipping: Canada's Corporate Cash Hoard Is Nearly One-Third Of GDP: IMF

224. Harper's CON MP David Wilks announced RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson is not entitled to a personal opinion on marijuana. Paulson had said,“I don’t think marijuana usage is as big a deal as it used to be" and added that he’s more concerned with eradicating impaired driving involving both alcohol and drugs.

225. Harper's CON MP, backbencher Maurice Vellacott, attacked Harper's control and muzzling of backbenchers as "a blight on democracy".

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