Day 27: August 28, 2015: Reasons NOT to Vote CON #'s 651 to 675

651. Harper's Director of Communications for the Veterans Affairs Minister, Kris Sims, has sent out an E-mail begging for some turncoat Veterans, "who are willing to appear on camera and prepared “to say in their own words why (Stephen) Harper is the best choice for Canada, based on their military experience and the threats we face in the world.” 

If some do come forward to lie on Harper's behalf, imagine how they will be blackballed by the rest of Canada's Veterans because, for example, when all of their Veterans' Service Centres nationwide were shut down ... the savings were immediately spent on advertisements during the NHL play-offs to brag how wonderful Harper's Economic Erection Plan was!

652. Every Harper promise made since Day One of his political career now accessible on-line via University of Waterloo, Professor Ian Milligan's searchable archive of over 14 million online documents.

653. Harper forced a Veteran to prove he had lost his legs in Afghanistan EVERY YEAR before he got his benefits. Apparently, due to his hate for science, Harper believes legs can grow back.

654. The Harper-controlled RCMP "failed" to collect important PMO inter-office messaging during their investigation into Senator Mike Duffy's alleged fraud. The RCMP’s request for PMO emails and a production order for Senate records did not specifically ask for copies of instant messaging, such as BlackBerry PIN-to-PIN and SMS text messages, which are regularly used by politicians and federal employees on sensitive matters. Garry Clement, former Director of the RCMP Proceeds of Crime Branch, (who now owns his own company specializing in financial investigations for corporate clients), said "I am a little surprised they didn’t ask for it because normally when you ask for this stuff, you go for everything – any form of communication. The bottom line is without asking for all forms of communication, you obviously are leaving yourself some holes in your investigation, there’s no doubt about that."

655. Harper's former Legal Adviser, Ben Perrin, broke the rules by failing to ensure key emails would be saved from the virtual shredder, according to a spokesman for the Privy Council Office. Judging from the examples provided by the information commissioner's office in its 2010 manual for federal employees ​— "casual communications," meeting notices, draft documents and photocopies of departmental publications — it seems highly unlikely that any email related to the then-ongoing negotiations with Senator Mike Duffy and his lawyers would even come close to being considered "transitory.""If you are ever in doubt about a record's status," advises the handbook, "keep it!" They were destroyed!

656. Harper has put the lives of both Banff residents and tourists in possible danger because of his 2015 Election Press censorship! Just like all CON candidates, Banff National Park employees have been ordered NOT to speak to the Press during the 2015 Election campaign, even on operational issues such as wolves chasing deer through the townsite, bears being killed and rescues by the public safety team. Questions were initially raised after Parks Canada spokeswoman, Christina Tricomi, declined a Calgary [Alberta] Herald’s request for interviews on several operational issues, including a potential public safety issue on August 11, 2015 after two wolves killed a deer in the Banff townsite. It took officials ALMOST A WEEK to notify the public through the media! Colleen Campbell, president of the Bow Valley Naturalists, concerned with the issue of wolves and immediate public interest said, “It’s important for people to manage their pets and their own behaviour. It’s important for people to know what’s happening in their community.” In addition, she said timely information is also important for tourists who may not know how to act around wolves.“Wolves are typically not dangerous to people, but it depends on people’s behaviour,” said Campbell, who has worked as a wildlife specialist for Banff National Park. “It seems that the policies might be impairing the quality of safety for residents and visitors alike.” Even non-controversial rescues are taking days to get approvals from Ottawa to release a statement with the details.

657. Harper purging 2015 Election Candidates with Palestinian sympathies.

658. Bruce Carson says Stephen Harper knew about his past.

659. Harper's fascist killing of Freedom of Speech and muzzling of scientists in one hit: Tony Turner, a scientist in habitat planning at Environment Canada, was sent home on leave with pay while the Harper Government investigates the making of Harperman, a music video posted on YouTube!

660. Harper, who has fired scientists in Alberta for reporting on the genocide of First Nations People dying from the leaking Tar Sands pits, is to have  a building named in his honour, by B'nai Brith Canada, to be called the Stephen Harper Centre for Human Rights.

661. Harper's nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize by B'nai Brith Canada, for helping to finance the mass killing of innocent Palestinians, sparked an outrage and petition on-line to have the nomination repealed.

662. Harper was awarded the B'nai Brith Canada's Gold Medallion for Humanitarianism despite Harper's firing of scientists in Alberta for reporting on the genocide of First Nations People dying from the leaking Tar Sands pits and his helping to finance the mass killing of innocent Palestinians.

663. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Species at Risk Atlantic Salmon Production Facilities.

664. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization.

665. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the At-Sea Observer Programs.

666. Harper was compared to the devil by the Toronto Press for being anti-gay, a magnet for racists, anti-immigration, a Human Rights violator, a nightmare to First Nations, a Western separatist, an artful flip-flopper, a Quebec hater, a Yankee lover, a health care profiteer, a Big Business shill, and an Eco terrorist.

667. Harper, who has run up EIGHT DEFICITS IN A ROW and WIPED OUT a huge SURPLUS inherited from the Liberals, hypocritically ridiculed Trudeau in a Hamilton, Ontario 2015 Election speech on August 27, 2015 for Trudeau's admission he might have to run in a deficit position to clean up the disaster Harper is leaving behind. Who could buy such hypocrisy? Naturally, the Hamilton Press reported, "Harper did not take questions from local or national media after his speech." As usual, Harper the Bubble Man made yet another ridiculous, farcical speech, filled with his getting old fear and terror absurdities, to a dog-sniffed, clap-on-cue, hand-picked crowd, then ran from the Press to avoid having his delusional bubble burst!

668. Harper's racism: he said, ""You've got to remember that west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from eastern Canada: people who live in ghettos and who are not integrated into western Canadian society."

669. Harper's hate for those out of work: he said, ""In terms of the unemployed, of which we have over a million-and-a-half, don't feel particularly bad for many of these people. They don't feel bad about it themselves, as long as they're receiving generous social assistance and unemployment insurance."

670. Harper's DEADLY, unrestricted Tar Sands labour guidelines put Canadians workers at risk! Canadians predicted DEADLY Accidents due to INEXPERIENCED foreigners creating deadly on-the-job situations!  ref: 1777

671. Harper's hate for Quebec: in 2001 Harper told the Calgary Sun that "Canada is not a bilingual country. As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed."

672. Harper the flip-flopper: he originally voted for a gun control registry but seeing the opportunity to use it politically, flip-flopped and voted against it!

673. Harper is a Western separatist: he has suggested that Albertans "should build firewalls around Alberta," including replacing the RCMP with its own provincial police.

674. Harper supported George W. Bush's U.S. war and carnage of an estimated one million innocent people in Iraq.

675. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Financial Management Services.

ref: 1777/1778

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

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

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

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

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

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

631. Harper hates teachers.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ref: 1779/1782

Day 25: August 26, 2015: Reasons NOT to Vote CON #'s 601 to 625

601. Harper hates Mrs. Rose Fairchild, (Please ask Andrew Coyne why. It is a long story.)

602. Harper is not responsible for almost anything.

603. "For 10 years we've had a lone-wolf prime minister. Stephen Harper's economic team can fit in a very small room. All he needs is one chair and a mirror." - Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau, August, 2015.

604. Harper's memorial for victims of communism off-base. According to Nova Scotia's Chronicle Herald, "A more appropriate theme might be a tribute to the victims of imperialism, another poisonous ideology. But then we would have to include our own First Nations people among them.

605. Harper's adviser and convicted criminal, lobbyist Bruce Carson, goes on trial on September 8, 2015 on charges of influence peddling and improper lobbying. This trial will clearly show Canadian Voters, front and centre, just one of many, many shady people has used to run Canada into the ground.

606. Harper killed the census and he robbed Canadians.

607. Harper guaranteed (unethical) Saudi Arabia that the details of Canada's sale of arms to them would remain secret!

608. "Harper has got to go for the good of the Conservative party," according to CON Senator Brazeau in his 1,600-word essay.

609. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Oil Spill Counter-Measures Team.

610. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Maurice-Lamontagne Institute’s French language library.

611. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Canadian Coast Guard Management.

612. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Water Pollution Research Lab, Sidney, British Columbia.

613. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Water Pollution Research Lab, Winnipeg, Manitoba.

614. Harper's Canada Revenue Agency TARGETED the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives for an audit because it is left-leaning

615. Harper HYPOCRISY: he's only at 50% of AGREED NATO Alliance Defense spending target but has been biggest mouth in the world against Putin!

616. Harper's destruction of Canada's once-speedy Health Care System has forced many Canadians to spend tens of thousands of dollars to get help in foreign countries!  

617. Harper is standing in the way of an effective government, according to Ralph Goodale, Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, Member of Parliament for Wascana and former Finance Minister.

618. Harper has IGNORED EIGHT Nobel Peace Prize winners asking him to stop the Tar Sands growth!

619. Harper refused to back an Arctic project that would connect up to 98% of Nunavut and Nunavik to the Internet!

620. Harper continues to pour gasoline on a Middle East conflict ALREADY out-of-control, with Canadian Taxpayers' money! Where's the logic? Scott Taylor, Editor of Esprit de Corps Magazine said, "No one is questioning why it would ever be a good idea to simply dump a whole pile of weapons into the hands of untrained and ill-disciplined Kurdish volunteers. Given all the examples in the recent past, this would appear to be akin to pouring gasoline on an already out-of-control fire."

621. Harper BADLY needs some lessons in history, ESPECIALLY Canadian!

622. Harper is OBLIVIOUS to what is REALLY happening in the North.

623. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Water Pollution Research Lab in Burlington, Ontario.

624. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Water Pollution Research Lab in Mont-Joli, Quebec.

625. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Water Pollution Research Lab in Moncton, New Brunswick.

ref: 1783/1798

Day 24: August 25, 2015: Reasons NOT to Vote CON #'s 576 to 600

576. Harper refused to have a debate about Women's Issues for Election 2015!

577. Harper's apparent lie in the House of Commons on October 26, 2013 showed then-Finance Minister Jim Flaherty raising his eyebrows and rolling his eyes towards Harper as the latter responded, "Mr. Wright has been absolutely clear in terms of who he told he intended to repay Mr. Duffy’s expenses to. He did not say Ray Novak was one of those people." The video is seen by most Canadians that Flaherty knew Harper was lying to Canadians in the House of Commons. Jim Flaherty resigned as Minister of Finance in March, 2014. He died the following month. Jim has taken his version of the truth to his grave. But he left his body language behind!

578. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Comox, British Columbia Conservation and Protection Office.

579. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Hazelton, British Columbia Conservation and Protection Office.

580. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Quesnel, British Columbia Conservation and Protection Office.

581. Harper's NINE Ottawa-area Election 2015 Candidates REFUSED to meet with Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson to discuss Election issues affecting his municipality. All other parties have met or were scheduled to meet with him. He was simply ignored by the CONs!

582. Harper's latest "same old, same old" election lie is his Election 2015 election promise to strengthen the Canadian Armed Forces reserve program. At what point in life will Harper learn to scan his Promise File of all his old broken promises before promising the same old, same old promises AGAIN! On Monday, August 17, 2015, after years and years of budget cuts and neglect, Harper pledged to bolster the ranks of the country’s citizen soldiers. AGAIN! Harper PROMISED in 2008 that if Canadians re-elected him he would add 6,000 reservists to the military, bringing the total number of part-time soldiers to 30,000. General Andrew Leslie, retired, stated: "Harper's announcement of 30,000 reserves was originally promised in 2008. He did not deliver. Fact: The average daily reserve size in 2014 was 22,100. Conclusion: Mr. Harper is deceiving Canadians yet again." It seems like Harper should have listened to the advice of his old war buddy George W. Bush, who was an expert on fooling voters, “There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.”

583. Harper has IGNORED the oil spills in Manitoba!

584. Harper wants a Tar Sands pipeline to the Arctic.

585. Harper has LIMITED the access to libraries for Federal prisoners! Advocates say they losing access to books and libraries makes it harder to improve their literacy skills and prepare them for reintegration into Canadian society after they're released. Does Harper even understand the word RECIDIVISM?

586. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Pender Harbour, British Columbia Conservation and Protection Office.

587. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Atlantic Lobster Sustainability Measures Program.

588. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Species-at-Risk Program.

589. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Habitat Management Program.

590. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the DFO Institute of Ocean Sciences in Sidney, British Columbia.

591. The relationship between Canada and China was allowed to deteriorate so badly under Harper that special meetings had to be held to ease the tensions between our two countries!

592. Harper EGO and ENTITLEMENT in a nutshell: he is taking hard-working Canadian Taxpayers' money to run a web site about HIMSELF and still FORCES Canadian Taxpayers to register to see it!

593. Harper committed $30,000,000 to train Hungary's pilots.

594. Harper's policies are promoting SKYROCKETING prescription drug costs! 

595. Harper was lobbied by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) to amend the Species At Risk Act to weaken recovery plans for Endangered Species! In other words: "TO HELL WITH THE ANIMALS, we have oil money to make!"

596. Harper LIE: he claims to be a "Good Economic Manager" which according to the World Economic Forum is a lie as Canada has DROPPED on the Annual World Competitiveness Index.

597. Harper's UNFAIR Election Act hopes to STOP First Nations, students and the poor from voting in Election 2015!

598. Harper MUST BE HIDING important information from Canadians!

599. Harper sent out an E-mail to Canadians demanding a donation of $25 because the Press was attacking him. In truth at the time, it was Justin Trudeau coming under FULL ATTACK by the Press!

600. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Freshwater Institute in Winnipeg.

ref: 1799/1814

Day 23: August 24, 2015: Reasons NOT to Vote CON #'s 551 to 575

551. Harper told Canadians that if someone, like himself, had any honour he would admit to his crimes; resigning immediately. Why does Harper still have the key to 24 Sussex? Why is Harper such a liar and hypocrite, ignoring HIS OWN ADVICE?

552. Harper's Election 2015 stance on Canada's economic stability under the Harper Government an absurd myth.

553. Harper's control of the RCMP is so tight there are allegations that Harper blocked the RCMP from charging Nigel Wright with bribery.

554. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Port Hood, Nova Scotia Conservation and Protection Office.

555.  Harper has announced he is handing out MORE to the rich! Ottawa Citizen headline, August 23, 2015: "Harper announces tax relief for service club members, deflects Duffy questions." The Citizen said, "Service club members identify needs in their communities, and then, instead of waiting for government, they take action to meet those needs,” said Harper. “They launch programs that support our children. I myself was a member of the Leaside Lions Hockey team. They care for the homeless and less fortunate.”The new measure, which would have a 15 to 29 per cent value depending on the individuals’ overall donation, would fall under the annual Charitable Donations Tax Credit, and apply to groups such as the Royal Canadian Legion, Knights of Columbus, Rotary clubs, Kiwanis and Optimists." Service club members are generally those with the deepest pockets in every community. Why is Harper going to give them TAX BREAKS on their service donations! Moreover, this shows he is clueless about people who have hearts and give from their hearts. They do this service and expect nothing back! As a former Rotarian, this offer from Harper is very offensive. That was the very essence of Rotary: giving because you could, expecting nothing in return. In fact, the return is something that happens inside of you BECAUSE YOU GAVE. This proves that the cold-hearted Harper has zero clue why people work in service. Obviously, Harper feels that if one gives, one should get back in return. It is very hard to believe Harper is a Christian. He does not understand why people give. Harper has been a bad politician. A good politician is a giver.

556. Harper is out of step with Jewish values. Ben Carniol, a Jew and Professor Emeritus at Ryerson University, wrote in the Toronto Star on August 24, 2015, "While driven by fear and by the need to protect themselves against real enemies, Israel’s leaders view Palestinian human rights as expendable, a view that risks de-legitimizing Israel as a Jewish state. Harper is no friend of Israel, nor of Jewish values, when he endorses Israel’s right-wing government in its drift toward catastrophe.A vote for Harper is a vote for thrashing both human rights and environmental protection, at the very time when Canada and the world urgently need to strengthen both."

557. Harper's CON MP Parm Gill, incumbent candidate for Brampton North, Ontario has used sickening and heinous lies and deception in his election tactics against Liberal candidate Ruby Sahota.

558. Harper committed a knowledge massacre. The massacre was done quickly, with no record keeping and no attempt to preserve the material in universities. Scientists said precious collections were consigned to dumpsters, were burned or went to landfills. Hundreds of years of carefully compiled research into aquatic systems, fish stocks and fisheries from the 1800s and early 1900s went into the bin or up in smoke. Irreplaceable documents like the 50 volumes produced by the H.M.S. Challenger expedition of the late 1800s that discovered thousands of new sea creatures, are now moldering in landfills. Many scientists have compared the war on environmental science to the rise of fascism in 1930s Europe. Renowned Dalhousie University biologist Jeff Hutchings calls the closures "an assault on civil society." Hutchings muses, "you look at the rise of certain political parties in the 1930s and have to ask how could that happen and how did they adopt such extreme ideologies so quickly, and how could that happen in a democracy today?"

559. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Wallace, Nova Scotia Conservation and Protection Office.

560.  Harper's former Senior PMO Staffer, Chris Woodcock, testified under oath in the Mike Duffy trial on August 24, 2015 that he didn't know Nigel Wright wrote a personal cheque to cover Mike Duffy's expenses until the story went public, even though Wright had sent him an email telling him he had done so. Crown prosecutor Jason Neubauer asked Woodcock when he learned that Wright had repaid Duffy's questionable expenses. Woodcock said he learned about it on the evening of May 14, 2013, or the morning of May 15 when CTV News broke the story. Neubauer also asked Woodcock about a March 8 email from Wright that included the line: "For you only 'I am personally covering Duffy's $90K.'"Woodcock said at the time that he didn't see that part of the email, and only saw it in late June 2013.  He said he was quite "surprised" when he saw that part of the email. There was giggling in the courtroom when Woodcock made this testimony.

561. Harper's CONTINUAL attacks on Justin Trudeau, saying he has no programme, are WRONG, according to former CON PM Brian Mulroney, who stated, "His program is that he's not Stephen Harper."

562. Harper is suffering from "Widespread Public Fatigue" according to former CON PM Brian Mulroney.

563. Harper lied to Canadians about rail safety, DESPITE 47 DEATHS in Lac-Mégantic! The railways are BLENDING Oils to BEAT the safety standards!

564. Harper has made a MESS of Canada's Military, using Canada's balance sheet and NOT any strategic outlook, according to Canadian Forces officer, George Petrolekas and Retired Canadian diplomat, Ferry de Kerckhove They published an annual report analyzing the international security environment. Canada’s military is in disarray, too stretched to effectively procure equipment or properly keep its forces in a state of mission readiness. ASSESSMENT: This has been "tantamount to a delinquency of one’s government duty."

565. Harper's lack of fiscal responsibility, (or is it white collar theft?), is evident in his obvious mishandling of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, where management salaries have literally skyrocketed completely out of hand. What is Harper's JUSTIFICATION for its Senior Managers salaries jumping from an average of $220,000 each under the Liberal's oversight, to $3,300,000 each per year, during Harper's tenure? The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board's total staff under the Liberal Government was 164 in 2006. Today it has more than 1,000! The growth in compensation for senior managers has been exponential under Harper: from $220,000, on average, in 2000 to $3,300,000 in 2014! They are making FIFTEEN TIMES their Liberal salaries under Harper! There should be a Commission called on this apparent white collar theft immediately after Harper is removed from office. This has been money literally taken out of the pockets of Canada's Senior Citizens!

566. Harper states that capping reporters at five questions during his Election 2015 campaign is CON policy. How will Canadians get all of Harper's replies to the so many outstanding contentious issues he has developed by being so restrictive!

567. One of Harper's fun, NON-POLITICAL trips, (this one to Manhattan, which included coveted tickets to a New York Yankees game plus a Broadway show), cost Canadian taxpayers at least $45,000. Harper government officials REFUSED to provide additional costs linked to the trip, such as expenses incurred by Harper, two more of his aides, and a defense attaché who took part in the 3-day excursion. Flight manifests show there were 9 passengers on Harper's private jet. Estimates for the flying costs of the Challenger, taken by Harper and his entourage, were $10,495 per hour! Harper's staff stayed at the luxurious New York Intercontinental Hotel in Times Square; the price per person, including taxes, was about US$400 per night. Their total expense filings, not counting flights, averaged about $2,100 EACH! Why should these pleasure trips cost taxpayers even ONE CENT!! Who does Harper think the Treasury belongs to? Obviously he thinks it is his private little piggy bank into which he can dip on his whim and private pleasure!

568. Harper blocked Veterans from attending his Election 2015 rally in Fredericton, New Brunswick held ... AT THEIR LEGION HALL! Harper is SHAMELESS!

569. Harper's Victim Surcharge Law ruled unconstitutional for homeless man who can’t pay it by a British Columbia judge.

570. Harper IGNORED Mount Polley Mine Spill Disaster even after the announcement it was 70% WORSE than originally estimated. This was the FIRST Canadian disaster Harper had COMPLETELY ignored in his Official Releases since taking office on February 6, 2006.

571. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Kedgwick, New Brunswick Conservation and Protection Office.

572. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Montague, Prince Edward Island Conservation and Protection Office.

573. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Inuvik, Northwest Territories Conservation and Protection Office.

574. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Rankin Inlet, Nunavut Conservation and Protection Office.

575. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Clearwater, British Columbia Conservation and Protection Office.

ref: 1815/1830

Day 22: August 23, 2015: Reasons NOT to Vote CON #'s 526 to 550

526. Harper is a LIAR, according to the MAJORITY of Canadians polled!

527. Harper's JEWISH PROFILING offends voter in Montreal! Campaigning just doesn't get much more classless and ignorant than this CON hustings tactic! CON campaign workers in Montreal are telling Jewish voters at their doors to remember WHAT THEY ARE! During the 2015 Election electioneering by the CONs, campaign workers for Robert Libman, the CON candidate running in the riding of Montreal's Mount Royal, knocked on Michael Hollander's door in order to ask whether Libman and Harper could count on his support. When Hollander told them that he wasn’t interested, one of the campaign workers proceeded to tap on the mezuzah* affixed to Hollander's doorpost and said “Okay, but remember what you are.”Hollander said that he was so appalled he told the campaign worker that statements like that were precisely the reason he would not be voting for the CONs. 

* A mezuzah is a piece of parchment, (often contained in a decorative case). inscribed with specified Hebrew verses from the Torah. A mezuzah is affixed to the door-frame in Jewish homes to fulfill the mitzvah (Biblical commandment) to inscribe the words of the Shema "on the doorposts of your house."

528. Harper's unethical, fascist-styled, classless spying culture was perfectly demonstrated when his Health Minister CON MP Rona Ambrose's ministerial intern Robert Stack went underground with a secret recording device. Robert Stack zeroed in on Liberal MP John McKay. Stack covertly asked McKay questions about Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau, hoping to find dirt the CONs could use politically: without asking John MacKay his PERMISSION to be recorded. All Stack got was that MacKay and Trudeau had opposing views on abortion. MP McKay had no clue Stack was secretly taping him and was planning to use his conversation against him. Stack then gave his recording to the CON-scum SUN, which rag published in an effort to make political hay. The SUN failed miserably. McKay apologized to Trudeau. Justin accepted the apology. The Liberals went on with business as usual and turned the page. Left over was a public viewing into Harper's own-grown, filthy, lying and morally corrupt culture. It was out there on full display; a deprived, hateful man with an equally corrupt, deceiving and lying team, running a once-proud country into the ground; morally, economically, ecologically, financially and an embarrassment on the World Stage. And Stack? He became another nobody used CON stooge: abused, spit out and thrown under Harper's bus, among a fast-growing crowd of pathetic, used-up CONmen, liars, and cheats.

529. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Rigolet, Newfoundland Conservation and Protection Office.

530. The 41st Parliament of Canada was completely broken and a joke under Harper!

531. Harper's inept PMO staff don't use spell check. They sent out a propaganda message stating he had won the first election debate, (which the majority of political pundits and junkies gave to Justin Trudeau and Elizabeth May), calling him the Prime MINSTER!

532. Harper's inept PMO staff used a salmon from Europe in an ad to tell Canadians they were going to protect Canadian salmon. The Green Party, Canada's #1 environmentalists, straightened Harper out.

533. Harper's inept team at his Royal Canadian Mint use a maple leaf from Norway on the new twenty dollar bills and not a Canadian one.

534. Harper has screwed Seniors on financial support in comparison to other developed countries providing public pensions to their "Golden Agers". In fact, on Aug. 11 Harper said he was "delighted" to be making it more difficult for Ontario to launch its own version of an improved Canada Pension Plan to help the elderly.

535. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Burgeo, Newfoundland Conservation and Protection Office.

536. Harper REFUSED to hire a new Law Clerk and Parliamentary Counsel for TWO Years, ENSNARING Parliament in many contentious political and legal disputes

537. Harper the Liar & Hypocrite: he attended the United Nations Summit on Climate Change with World Leaders in New York on September 22, 2009. He stated six years ago, “Our government is committed to working toward a comprehensive and effective international agreement that puts the world on a clean energy path.” Harper the Liar & Hypocrite said that in 2009, then in the interim, has pulled Canada out of every environment agreement that our once-proud Nation had committed to! In fact, Harper REFUSED to attend a subsequent Summit on Climate Change!

538. Harper's Health Minister CON MP Rona Ambrose REFUSES to fast-track marijuana into the hands of Canadians despite the UNDENIABLE PROOF that it KILLS CANCER CELLS! The National Cancer Institute has finally conceded that cannabis kills cancer. Whose interests are Ambrose protecting: Big Pharma or 35,000,000 Canadians, all directly or indirectly affected by this heinous killer? Why hasn't Harper fast-tracked its legalization in a quest to save the lives of countless Canadians and the high costs, from emotional to financial, that the loss of those lives continuously brings down on our country?

539. Harper sent TWO FLAWED law Bills to the Senate in 2014 and BOTH were automatically approved with no scrutiny and correction, proving that the Senate had become reduced to a rubber-stamping Upper House for Harper's majority government and not the check and balance system on Parliament intended by Canada's constitution.

540. Harper set the worst job record in Canadian history since record keeping BEGAN. In August, 2014 Canada experienced its WORST MONTH EVER with the loss of 111,800 private-sector jobs!

541. Harper's love for oil and putting Canada's whole economy dependent on Tar Sands production was essentially SLAMMED by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change who stated, "There must be a "massive shift" to renewable energy."

542. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Arnold’s Cove, Newfoundland Conservation and Protection Office.

543. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Baddeck, Nova Scotia Conservation and Protection Office.

544. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Canso, Nova Scotia Conservation and Protection Office.

545. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Sheet Harbour, Nova Scotia Conservation and Protection Office.

546. Harper's SLASHING of public research and environmental science institutions included the Woodstock, New Brunswick Conservation and Protection Office.

547. Harper used his anti-terrorism bill to force the NDP to fire their Kings-Hants Election 2015 NDP candidate, Morgan Wheeldon. Wheeldon had discussed the Israel-Palestine issue on Facebook last year, criticizing Israel more or less in the general terms of the international debate on the issue.

548. Harper Government SHOULD HAVE called a NATIONAL INQUIRY for Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women, according to former CON PM Brian Mulroney.

549. Harper Government should have been PRIORITIZING the environment, according to former CON PM Brian Mulroney.

550.  Harper has UNDERESTIMATED Justin Trudeau's abilities, according to former CON PM Brian Mulroney.

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