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Sunday, September 6, 2015

Day 35 & 36: September 5 & 6, 2015: Reasons NOT to Vote CON #'s 976 to 1000


977. Harper's Minister of Immigration, CON MP Chris Alexander, demanded a two-tier health system in Canada, one for Canadians and one for refugees. Justice Anne Mactavish, who denounced the cuts to refugee health care as "cruel and unusual" treatment, particularly to the children of claimants who have sought refuge in Canada, stepped in and OVERRULED the CONs slashing of health care to refugees. In her 268-page decision, Mactavish said the slashes to refugee care put the health of children of refugee claimants at risk. Mactavish wrote, "The 2012 modifications to the Interim Federal Health Program potentially jeopardize the health, the safety and indeed the very lives, of these innocent and vulnerable children in a manner that shocks the conscience and outrages our standards of decency. It puts their lives at risk and perpetuates the stereotypical view that they are cheats and queue-jumpers, that their refugee claims are 'bogus,' and that they have come to Canada to abuse the generosity of Canadians. It serves to perpetuate the historical disadvantage suffered by members of an admittedly vulnerable, poor and disadvantaged group." According to Mactavish in her ruling, the CONs violated a section of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
















989. Harper's Minister of Immigration, CON MP Chris Alexander, was attacked by Calgary's Mayor Naheed Nenshi who slammed the "talking points" about attacking ISIS as a solution to the crisis and said Canadians are asking whether the airstrikes are working. Calgary's Mayor lashed out at Alexander's blaming of the media for not bringing more attention to the Syrian crisis, a comment that resulted in a strong backlash against the minister. Nenshi said, "As if federal government policy should be based on what's on the cover of the Calgary Sun or on Power & Politics every morning is ridiculous. Minister Alexander should have been a star. He was an incredible diplomat. By all accounts he's a brilliant man, but he's also the minister behind Bill C-24, which I remind you means that me — born at St. Mike's hospital in downtown Toronto — could have my Canadian citizenship stripped."


991. Is Harper responsible for the Harper Government? If so, then Harper should man up and take FULL RESPONSIBILITY for the only two terrorist attacks in Canada! It appears innocent Canadians died because Harper has been inept at governance, failing to OVERSEE a Ministry, under his DIRECT COMMAND which is now reported as being rotten to the core. Apparently, Harper did NOTHING to correcting it resulting in the deaths of two innocent Canadians!. Montreal's La Presse News has obtained 900 pages of government documents, (much of it censored), under the Access to Information Act, revealing Harper's Anti-terrorism branch of Harper's Public Safety Ministry was dysfunctional because of a rotten work environment for a LONG TIME prior to the terrorist attacks! La Presse discovered the existence of a "culture of fear, insults, lack of information sharing, internal fights, unwillingness to hear divergent opinions, favouritism and the cleaning up of reports to make superiors believe that all was fine on the ground." Further exacerbating these horrible terrorist attacks and scandal, ON CANADIAN SOIL, is the fact that Harper's Public Safety Minister, CON MP Steven Blaney, REFUSED an interview request. Did two innocent Canadians die because of Harper's INCOMPETENCE? What ELSE is Harper hiding in the 900 pages of redacted documents? Due to Harper's LACK of transparency and accountability, the Press cannot get answers. UNTIL Canadians get the TRUTH and learn OTHERWISE, the blood of those Canadian soldiers deaths are on Harper's hands. Mr. Harper, we want the TRUTH PLEASE! Either clear your name by coming clean, or resign!





995. Harper said Syrian Refugees were scheduled to come to Canada during the Election '15 Refugee Scandal. The Anglican Diocese of Ottawa has released evidence that Harper  and Alexander LIED about the Syrian refugee situation: NOT ONE was on the Expedited Refugee List, scheduled for Canada. NOT ONE! How are Canadians allowing Harper and Alexander to lie like this? BABIES ARE DROWNING!!!! If these two were caught lying so blatantly during a Board of Directors meeting of a company, they would be ejected permanently, not even seeing the end of the meeting. Why is politics so different? Why is the CON Caucus letting their leader and peers lie so blatantly? And why are ANY Canadians voting for these liars: their love for Harper so deep that they would rather allow babies to drown an ocean away "out of sight, out of mind" than dethrone the LIAR at 24 Sussex?











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Friday, September 4, 2015

Day 34: September 4, 2015: Reasons NOT to Vote CON #'s 951 to 975







957. Harper delivered crocodile tears during his speech about refugees on September 3, 2015. The Press have forgotten! Why this assessment? During his ten year regime Harper has been CRUEL to people arriving in Canada, even denying healthcare coverage to children, pregnant woman, and cancer patients DESPITE their, or their spouses', paying their fair share of payroll taxes as honest and hard-working workers, contributing to our Nation's economy. Consider this summation on Harper's HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES abuses against refugees : "[The] Harper government has tried to instill fear in ordinary Canadians that outsiders, such as refugees, foreign workers or more recent immigrants, are abusing the system. This fear and the resulting indignation are then used to pass measures that are incoherent, mean-spirited, and short-sighted. Any short-term political gain achieved through scapegoating immigrants, refugees and minorities comes at a high cost. It has undermined the rule of law and our multicultural and humanitarian tradition."












966. Harper's "I've got a surplus" was a LIE, as we all know now. But, by cutting every social programme imaginable, Harper tried and failed to create a FALSE SURPLUS on the books to look wonderful and fiscally responsible for Election 2015. That is GOVERNANCE CORRUPTION! Sacrificing Vets, making hungry children hungrier, pushing the poor, the sick, the handicapped, the needy and the elderly even further into poverty ... JUST to try to look good for votes is IMMORAL and CRIMINAL! And what did it get Harper? A RECESSION! So no matter what his books ever say, in black or red ink, Harper was, is, and ALWAYS will be, in no matter what he does in life, the man with an immoral deficit to his character. He hates and he is hateful. And ditto the people who vote for him.













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Thursday, September 3, 2015

Day 33: September 3, 2015: Reasons NOT to Vote CON #'s 876 to 950









884. Harper refused to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Canada WINNING the Nobel Peace Prize for Canada's INCREDIBLE Middle East peace initiative.






















905. Harper's President of the Treasury Board, CON MP Tony Clement, stole $50,000,000 from the public purse on false pretenses, from money originally allotted by Parliament for alleviating congestion at Canada’s borders, and spent it beautifying his own Parry Sound-Muskoka riding on parks, walkways, toilets and gazebos. He would later falsely claim the money was dispersed for the G8 Summit. Clement is protected from being charged for this theft under Parliamentary Privilege. Auditor General Shelia Fraser investigated what happened to the $50-million, she could find little paperwork showing how it was decided the money be spent. Documents later unearthed through the Access to Information Act showed Clement was encouraging mayors in his riding to apply for this cash prior to the 2008 election – and used federal civil servants to help dole it out. When the $50-million scandal broke in 2011, Clement was not dropped from cabinet or even reprimanded. Globe and Mail columnist Lawrence Martin wrote, “On the Clement case, team Harper’s strategy appears to be to simply ride out the criticism. Stonewall the media and the opposition until fatigue with the issue has set in and everyone moves on. It has worked in the past. It will likely work now.”


907. Harper’s proclivity for corruption was buried in the 2015 budget. After the government got rid of the long gun-registry in 2012, the RCMP was ordered to destroy its records. By then, however, an access to information request for this data had been made. The RCMP eviscerated the information anyway – which is a criminal offence if an access request is being processed. Suzanne Legault, Canada’s information commissioner, recommended charges be laid against the responsible RCMP members – which included high-ranking officers.But in its most recent omnibus bill the Harper government simply rewrote the access laws retroactively to erase the RCMP's mishandling of gun registry records – in order to protect these officers from facing criminal charges.This, of course, sets a precedent of simply arbitrarily changing laws in order to protect political allies. According to Legault: “We could, for example, with this bill, set a precedent whereby, if there were findings of electoral fraud, the government could just pass a law and say: ‘No, these provisions never applied.'”


909. Harper was in the dead centre of the F-35 jet scandal! The F-35 jet fighter contract. The plan was to buy 65 of Lockheed Martin’s F-35 fighters with the Tories claiming the price tag would be $9-billion to purchase and $7-billion to maintain. Yet the contract was never put out to tender – even though Canadian law requires this must happen for major defense purchases. A 2012 Auditor General’s report said the government did not conduct a fair competition or proper due diligence. Moreover, when the government signed an agreement with Lockheed Martin in the fall of 2006, unlike previous agreements, this one did not guarantee a minimum amount of production be done in Canada. Soon the price tag became wishful thinking. The Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page estimated the fighter would actually cost nearly $30-billion over 30 years. The Harper government condemned Page, even though he was vindicated by estimates drawn up by the Auditor General. Page even said the Harper government appeared to be keeping two sets of books on the F-35 - one in secret, and another for the public. One other estimate suggested the total cost could be as high as $126 billion – or $110-billion more than the Tories originally said. Yet the Tories refused to answer questions about these estimates, and religiously stuck to the story the planes would cost less. Only after years of denial did the government shelve the order for the time being.





912. Harper has allowed China to sue Canadian taxpayers if the Tar Sands pipeline is not built! Osgoode Hall law professor and investment treaty expert Gus Van Harten said, "Chinese investors can sue Canada for any actions by the federal government or the B.C. government (or legislature or courts) relating to Chinese assets connected to the [Enbridge] Northern Gateway pipeline. More troubling, there is no requirement in the treaty for the federal government to make public the fact of a Chinese investor's lawsuit against Canada until an award has been issued by a tribunal. This means that the federal government could settle the lawsuit by paying out public money before an award is issued, and we would never know. One small B.C. First Nation, the Hupacasath, issued a legal challenge in 2012 against FIPA, arguing that the deal threatened constitutionally protected Indigenous land rights, and that it was signed without any consultation. The Federal Court and Federal Court of appeal dismissed the case, claiming any claims of FIPA’s impact were “speculative.”"




























938. Harper's staff have some VERY stupid rules. In fact, so funny they are asininely ridiculous. Here, let a reporter tell you about the dog they endure on the Hustings for Election 2015: 
"Eventually, an RCMP sniffer dog was brought in to check all reporters' bags and camera equipment for illicit stashes of, one presumes, kibbles, Milk-Bones and other doggie treats. No other political party does this to accredited journalists covering campaign events. The police dog was a beautiful king shepherd. Lest the idea occur to any ink-stained wretch to write about the dog instead of a canned speech, we were immediately told that the pretty dog could not be photographed. We didn't try. After all, you never know when a police dog might be an undercover sniffer. Blowing the cover of undercover pooches serves no compelling public interest and might expose them, their families and other members of their pack to violence or even nasty social media howlers. The certified kibble-free journalists were then ushered into a ballroom where Harper was to meet with Saultites [CONs from Sault Ste. Marie or 'The Soo']. But these were not ordinary Saultites. They were hand-picked Tories, every one carefully screened to ensure only the bluest of blue-blooded Harper supporters got in the room. Everything was scripted with meticulous care. There was no way the Conservative leader was going to be taken off-message by hecklers or tough questioning. Even so, reporters were instructed that no interviews with these sterling supporters could be conducted inside the inn, largely eliminating the possibility of getting local reaction to Harper's speech. Even getting identifications of people photographed with the Conservative leader was next to impossible." 
This is the Harper team that runs Canada. Is it ANY wonder Harper has become the laughing stock of the whole world!













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Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Day 32: September 2, 2015: Reasons NOT to Vote CON #'s 776 to 875 (100 Harper Characteristics)




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