Day 15: August 16, 2015: Reasons NOT to Vote CON #'s 351 to 375

351. Harper's National Household Survey, which replaced the Long-Form Census, is unreliable. All levels of government, as well as non-profit and private sector groups, cannot make informed decisions about community planning based on the wrong information, according to David Bellhouse, a statistics professor at the University of Western Ontario.“The tragedy of it is, the government was warned that this would happen," he said, adding that the Conservatives do not want the public to have the information that they would need to question the government’s policy decisions, and the lack of quality data from the National Household Survey would be a convenient excuse to kill the Canada-wide survey altogether.“If you don't have the information, then they can do whatever they want, because no one has correct information,” Professor Bellhouse said.

352. Harper showed ZERO compassion and a complete disregard for HUMAN RIGHTS in September, 2014 when he DEPORTED 63-year-old refugee claimant, Jamila Bibi, to her native Pakistan. She was facing a death sentence by stoning. Bibi had been working legally at Meg's Restaurant in Saskatoon when she was arrested and deported. Her lawyer, Bashir Khan, feared for her safety because of falsified adultery charges, and the possibility of her being targeted for an honour killing. Jamila Bibi had sought asylum in Canada in 2007 because her life was in danger after her husband accused her of adultery. In Bibi’s case, a land dispute led to the fictitious accusations of adultery. Mutilating women, stoning them to death, or any number of methods of honour killings are the norm in Pakistan. According to Dr Muazzam Nasrullah, a public health specialist teaching at Emory and West Virginia University in the USA, “As many as 500 women and girls are killed for ‘honour’ in Pakistan each year, making it one of the most dangerous countries for women.” At last report, Bibi was in hiding somewhere in Pakistan to avoid being stoned to death in cold blood; due to Harper's disregard for her life.

353. Harper's complicity in the Duffy Scandal could see him lose Election 2015 according to the Globe & Mail, not because he was or was not directly guilty; but because the Canadian Electorate will see Harper for what he and his PMO staff really are : Corrupt, Immoral, Unethical and Full of Dirty Tricks.

354. Harper BROKE music copyright law by using Randy Bachman's "Takin' Care of Business" as his theme song for a speech on Monday, September 15, 2014. Bachman said Harper did NOT get permission to use his classic song. He also said that if Harper had asked, he would have said NO. Bachman had strong words for Harper when he said,  "I don't think he's taking care of business for the right people or the right reasons."

355. Harper's War on Science brings INTERNATIONAL SHAME to Canada

356. Harper's evangelical mission for Canada and Canadians

357. Harper SCREWING Maritime's Health Care

358. Harper has not made Canada better since elected in 2011, according to Canadians

359. Harper gets HAMMERED by the New York Times on Sunday, August 16, 2015

360. Harper's Finance Minister, CON MP Joe Oliver, bashed America's intellectual community in the National Post on August 16, 2015 when he stated, “Americans are free to oppose resource projects in Canada as they are to development in their own country. However, it would be refreshing if they confined themselves to the facts and the science.”

361. Harper's Finance Minister, CON MP Joe Oliver, lied and acted as Mister Propaganda, when he rebuked claims of Harper's suppression of Canadian scientists in the National Post on August 16, 2015 by stating, “Neither I nor any member of my political staff have ever directed scientists not communicate with each other or with the public, nor, to my knowledge, has any member of my ministry.”

362. Harper's Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, CON MP Steven Blaney, fabricated a lie and attempted a cheap smear and character assassination campaign against Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau for visiting the Al-Sunnah Al-Nabawiah mosque in Trudeau's home city of Montreal. Veterans Affairs Minister Julian Fantino, (a former RCMP Commissioner!), ALSO contributed to the lie, smear and defamation campaign against Justin Trudeau when he posted a comment on his MP Twitter account accusing Trudeau of consorting "with religious extremists." Blaney stated, "It is completely unacceptable that Liberal leader Justin Trudeau would associate with a group that allegedly radicalizes Canadians to join al-Qaeda and engage in acts of unspeakable violent extremism. Now he is pandering for votes amongst religious extremists in our own communities. It is clear that Justin Trudeau cannot be trusted to keep Canadians safe." When the TRUTH came out, it was revealed that Trudeau's visit had been three years earlier, BEFORE that mosque had been put on a terrorist watch list! HOWEVER!!! This ridiculous charge by the CONs opened up an extremely dangerous and unacceptable possibility which Harper, like a snake in the grass, OBVIOUSLY employed: he has no problem exposing Opposition MPs to known terrorists, on Canadian soil, if he can use it for his own political advantage!: see Reason #363.

363. Harper KNOWS Opposition MPs routinely visit mosques. This breaking story PROVED Harper has no problem exposing rival MPs to known terrorists if he can politicize it for his own advantage! Based on the charges and feeble explanations made by TWO of his Cabinet Ministers, Harper had REFUSED to warn Opposition MPs of the mosques on Canada's terrorist watch lists, Harper was WILLING to put Canadians in danger on home soil for his own political advantage! It is all there, as facts, in dozens of press reports. And then Harper heinously , obviously and hypocritically, based on Blaney's and Fantino's charges against Justin Trudeau, uses any of these possible visits to claim these Opposition MPs are befriending and associating with terrorists, (see Reason #362)! That is a perfect example of how low this fascist snake in the grass running Canada will do to smear and character assassinate a Member of Parliament in another Party!

364. Harper spent MILLIONS of dollars searching for a dead man while hundreds of thousands of Canada's children are starving! Why could Franklin wait a few more years? he wasn't going anywhere.

365. Harper refuses to audit of ALL Members of Parliament expense accounts, DESPITE  the frauds found in Senators' expense accounts. This is extremely SUSPICIOUS because MPs are RESISTING audits! 

366. Harper SHUT DOWN the programme allowing tens of thousands of students from using Canada's largest telescope. It was almost like Harper does not believe in science!

367. Harper's Small Business Job Credit programme KILLED JOB GROWTH since it created a disincentive for small businesses to expand employment: adding to the payroll would mean losing the tax credit, according to expert economists.

368. Harper's INACTION and CUT BACKS on Canadian social programmes put Child Poverty into an acute emergency. Number of Canadian children starving now: 1,000,000. 

369. Harper SMACKED DOWN in Ontario's Court of Appeal: CONs sentencing laws ruled UNCONSTITUTIONAL. 

370. Harper remained stiff lipped about soldiers on Viagra: gave the Press a hard time procuring information; kept it TOP SECRET. 

371. Harper's  Kenora, Ontario CON riding President labeled scientists "radical ideologues." Anti scientist virus appears to be party-wide!

372. Harper CONSIDERING prison privatization!

373. Harper considering the PRIVATIZE of Canada's prisons: despite being historically a FAILURE in Human Rights. A HEINOUS PRACTICE, as evidenced by the Wyoming State Penitentiary Model started 113 Years Ago, was BANNED by Wyoming as a FAILURE 10 Years Later. 

374. Harper COVERED UP the facts regarding Canadians being tortured and hanged overseas. Public Safety Minister, CON MP Steven Blaney, the Cabinet Minister in charge of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service,  REFUSED to be TRANSPARENT with the Press

375. Harper COVER UP: hiding information on Big Pharma's TAINTED and UNSAFE prescription drugs.

ref: 1927/1947

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LINK to 360 Senior Tax Auditors fired

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

343. Harper hates Putin.

344. Hates Israel critics.

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

The Fireplace in Citizen Kane

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

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

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

LINK to BBC report

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

The CONs did NOT respond to a request for comment!

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

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

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

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

ref: 1947/1964

Day 13: August 14, 2015: Reasons NOT to Vote CON #'s 301 to 325

301. E-mail released in Mike Duffy trial, when Nigel Wright testified, suggests Harper initially lied about his knowledge in the Duffy Senate Scandal. Wright has been adamant that when he said "Harper is good to go" it meant Harper knew nothing about Wright giving Duffy money. The new E-mail is far more incriminating against Harper. The E-mail released in court, dated May 14, 2013 at 10:54 AM, (E-mail #553 in the court documents), reads, "The PM knows, in broad terms only, that I personally assisted Duffy when I was getting him to agree to repay the expenses." In other words, Harper KNEW there was a cover up going on in the Prime Minister's Office. Whether he knew about a damn cheque, or if it was done in cash, hardly matters. This E-mail CONFIRMS Harper KNEW what was going on! This is a page right out of the Nixon playbook. Nixon KNEW about Watergate deceiving the American public and he was forced to resign. Likewise, Harper KNEW his office was deceiving the Canadian public! Why is the CON party allowing him to remain in their caucus and as their Leader? This E-mail now puts the WHOLE Conservative Party on trial: for allowing a corrupt Leader to remain in their party. Harper should have been forced out of his party for this blatant corruption, the Crown Prosecutor should have been notified, and the RCMP should have arrested Harper. Canada, under Harper, is lawless!

302. The Federal Court does NOT trust Harper.

303. Harper the hypocrite: bigoted against Muslims one week, then panders to them the next!

304. Harper hypocrisy: Israeli-Canadians launch crowdfunding campaign to get pro-Israel Harper re-elected by bringing in foreigners to work on CON election campaign. Harper has denied proud Canadian actor Donald Sutherland the right to vote, deeming he is a foreigner!

305. Harper the hypocrite promoted terrorism in his election ad. This was against his own Bill C-51. Why does Harper consider himself above the law, exempt from the Canadian law HE PASSED!?!?

306. Harper pressured the RCMP to purge the long-gun registry data, even while assuring the Information Commissioner they would follow a law requiring the preservation of records.

307. Harper spent $7,000,000 for Canada Day celebrations but refuses to divulge where the money went.

308. Amnesty International slammed Harper for putting economy ahead of Human Rights

309. Harper charged by Canada Without Poverty in a case before the UN Human Rights Committee, arguing that a special audit program launched by Harper's tax agency in 2012 violated Canada's international commitments on human rights.

310. UN Human Rights Committee investigates treatment of First Nations by Harper

311. Harper is waging a war on drugs in Canada and scientists say HARPER IS CLUELESS, actually putting our Canadian Youth in MORE danger. Harper's 2015 election campaign spiel on drugs was the last straw for a group of frustrated scientists who say his rhetoric is divorced from science. On Wednesday, the International Center for Science in Drug Policy wanted to set the record straight and released a summary of scientific evidence to debunk Harper's claims about the dangers of marijuana. In a press release, the group, led by Scientist Dan Werb, PhD, a Toronto epidemiologist and researcher, stated "There is a serious danger that the repetition of false claims, especially by our country's leaders, will lead to policies that further put our young at risk. Just yesterday, Stephen Harper stated that cannabis legalization would only serve to make drugs more accessible to our children. In fact, we've seen sustained, high levels of cannabis availability among youth in Canada under our [Harper's] current policies." The International Center for Science in Drug Policy report cites several studies that debunk Harper's argument. They wrote that countries with liberal marijuana laws, such as the Netherlands, actually show lower rates of use than countries with the more punitive approach, which clueless Harper is dictating to Canadians.

312. Harper's former Chief of Staff, Nigel Wright, was and is as deluded as any and all of Harper's ring-kissing lieutenants, caught up in the arrogance and entitlement Harper has created in the Prime Minister's Office, now for a full decade. The lawlessness under Harper was all reflected by Nigel Wright in one sentence in the witness box, under oath, in an Ottawa courtroom on August 13, 2015; which was a complete precis of Harper's psychotic rule: being a COMPLETE LACK OF INTEGRITY! Wright said, "I had an obligation to fulfill my end of the arrangement with him [Duffy]. I couldn't think of another way of doing it." No Nigel, the obligation was NOT to become entangled in a cover up and bribe! This reflects the contempt for Canadians and their money, entrusted to Harper in the tens of billions of dollars annually. Wright simply could NOT and still CANNOT see that the CORRECT solution was to pick up the phone and call the Justice Department because a White Crime had been committed against the People of Canada. This is exactly what Harper bred in his office: lying and deceit, the sickness that grows like a virus, bred by Harper the psychopath wielding power over sociopaths, like Nigel Wright. From Harper down to the thousands of CON civil servants under him: soaking in the limelight of control, they all forgot who they work for and who they are paid by: Canadians; not vice versa. And get this: Harper still has supreme control! And why hasn't Nigel Wright been charged for his role in this crime against Canadians? That one sentence above, under oath, was a confession of his DIRECT INVOLVEMENT in a crime! Right there the judge should have ordered a pair of Del Mastro-styled bracelets! Because of Nigel Wright's cover up MILLIONS OF TAX DOLLARS were wasted on audits and getting to the Truth! Is Nigel Wright 'free to go' because the Solicitor General of Canada sits next to Harper? That is how sick it is. Harper's crime against the People of Canada is STILL ongoing, even from a courtroom's witness box. And MILLIONS of Victims watch this Harper-led, white-collar crime unfold on our living room televisions, frustrated and helpless!

313. Harper's Department of Aboriginal Affairs was ordered to pay $20,000 to Dr. Cindy Blackstock for pain and suffering due to the behaviour of David McArthur, a senior government bureaucrat and former special assistant to then-Minister of Aboriginal Affairs Chuck Strahl. The dispute stemmed from a 2009 incident in which Mr. McArthur barred Dr. Blackstock from a gathering with First Nations chiefs from Ontario. Dr. Blackstock has also been the subject of federal government surveillance due to advocacy for First Nations children's rights. For years, Dr. Blackstock has been a central figure in a long-standing battle with the federal government over aboriginal child welfare. The First Nations Child and Family Caring Society (FNCFCS) is the only national organization serving Aboriginal children and families in Canada. As national partners, UFCW Canada and FNCFCS are actively collaborating on projects to advance equality, diversity, education, and social and economic justice for First Nations children, youth, and families.

314. Harper has spent at least $6,500.000 trying to defend his unconstitutional legislation!

315. Harper's treatment of Veterans is reflected in the way Corporal Glen Kirkland was thrown out of the military. Kirkland suffers from hearing loss, has vision problems and sustained a brain injury, (which left him dependent on insulin), as a result of a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan in 2008. Kirkland also suffers from PTSD. The CONs issuing him his RELEASE PAPERS and was discharged RIGHT AFTER he spoke out to Members of Parliament at a Parliamentary Committee hearing into the care of Canada's injured soldiers! Treated like this by the Harper-led abuse of Veterans, is it an wonder so many have committed suicide!

316. Harper's system of penalizing injured Canadian Soldiers has forced them to hide their health problems in order to keep their pensions!

317. Harper FASCIST-STYLED CENSORSHIP, Dateline: September, 2014. The CONs purged all Facebook comments critical of the controversial Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement with China. One spiked comment stated, "“You sold us out to China, you will be remembered by Canadians and this treaty if passed will come up at every federal election for the next 30 years, you have made us a serfdom, time for the Cons to retire,” And another removed critical comment said, "“This man [Harper] is a traitor and an agent for communist China and you treat him like he’s the Lord of Glory, you poor blind fools,” Yet another removed comment said, “I never thought I’d see the day when My own country would sneak a deal like this behind the Canadian peoples back. No loyalty to her people none at all, border line treason and don’t you dare tell me different, this country should look out for each other and watch each other’s backs, LOYALTY.” Another one purged said, “The Arctic is Our Home. Then why are you trying to destroy it by drilling for oil and melting the ice through climate change?”

318. Harper lie. Harper went into the Heart of Ontario's Wine Country in September, 2014 and spewed a HUGE LIE right into Forty Mile Creek Winery owner John Hall's face! Harper told Hall that his European Union Trade Deal had made John Hall a success. Hello? John Hall has been successful for TWO DECADES! Imagine the GALL it must take to tell a hard-working entrepreneur that you had made him successful, taking all the credit from him and his decades of hard work, ON CAMERA!

319. Harper's Employment Minister, CON MP Jason Kenney, (starring in his own Parliament Hill Dumb and Dumber movie equivalent), slammed HIS OWN MINISTRY'S Temporary Foreign Worker Program!

JASON KENNY'S IDIOT RANKING: HIGH. It's not every day you're going to see a Minister of the Crown sending out a tweet telling 35 million Canadians what an incompetent fool he is! THIS WAS KENNY'S OWN DEPARTMENT, ON HIS WATCH! So like, what's his next move ... pink slip himself? This is an example of the bungling idiots running Canada. Is it any wonder the huge Liberal surplus has been wiped out!

320. Harper had a Canadian historical site DESTROYED  ... DESPITE the Senate's plea to save it! The 'Kitchen Accord' site, where Canada’s Constitution talks were saved, was demolished by Harper. The fifth-floor kitchen in the Government Conference Centre was the spot where future prime minister Jean Chrétien and the attorneys general, Roy McMurtry of Ontario and Roy Romanow of Saskatchewan, reportedly hammered out a compromise that helped save the tense constitutional talks from failure.The incident became known as the “Kitchen Accord.”

321. Harper's Chief of Staff, Nigel Wright redacted, (destroyed parts of E-mails), from the Prime Minister that were relevant to the Mike Duffy Senate Scandal!

322. Harper using national security to distract from faltering economy, per Grand Chief Stewart Phillip of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs. Phillip stated, “I’m really concerned that the Harper government is desperate enough to deliberately provoke a conflict, a fight, with us over these issues. I know that the RCMP have been asking a lot of questions about Unist’ot’en.” In response the Unist’ot’en issued a declaration, signed by the clan and Wet’suwet’en Nation chiefs, which they say they are enacting as law. “Our traditional structures of governance retain complete jurisdiction in our territory,” says the declaration, which cites Supreme Court decisions in support of this position.

323. Harper cut off desperate unemployed Canadians from insurance that was rightfully theirs, stealing $1,800,000,000 from THEIR Employment Insurance fund to balance his budget!

324. Harper refused to account for $3,100,000,000 of hard working Canadian Taxpayers' money MISSING from the Treasury ONE and a HALF YEARS after the Auditor General reported it was gone!

325. Duffy Scandal may force Harper to resign. On September 14, 2014 the Ottawa Citizen predicted, "If Mike Duffy’s trial arrives before or during the 2015 federal campaign it will drive a cement nail straight through Stephen Harper’s hopes for re-election. The threat is so enormous that it may force the prime minister to consider a choice that most observers believe him to have already rejected: retirement from public life."

ref: 1965/1977

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