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100+ Reasons Not to Vote for Harper
1. Calling an
early election, breaking a legislated promise to have the next vote in
2009.
2. Writing ineffective laws, which do not
apply to him.
3. Apparently Canadian laws do not apply
to him either, ask Elections Canada, a number of other quasi-judicial
bodies or Cadman’s biographer.
4. Turning a record budget surplus into a
deficit in 3 years.
5.Running the biggest spending Canadian government ever and
increasing spending at twice the rate of inflation and revenue
6. Losing 2 billion plus dollars of tax revenue due to an ill conceived
income trust policy.
7. Cutting Canada’s Food Safety
Inspectors just prior to a major food poisoning outbreak (Listeriosis)
that has killed 15 people so far.
8. Adding a personal hair stylist and image consultant to the PMO staff
and billing the taxpayer for her services
9. Fudging the costs of government jets used by Stephen Harper and his
ministers after blasting Liberals for the same thing.
10. Kicking out Garth Turner for communicating with Canadians.
11. Firing Mp Bill Casey for doing his job and standing up for his
constituents
12. Producing a 200 page "Manual of Dirty Tricks" to deliberately disrupt parliamentary
committees and parliament.
13. Conservative committee chairman following that advice and walking
out when ever a contentious issue is raise or they might lose a vote.
14. Parliamentary secretary Pierre Poilievre’s hand gestures in
Parliament and F-word comments in committee.
15. Firing Conservative Senators Hugh Segal and Michael Meighan from
committee work for independent thinking.
16. Muzzling Conservative MPs and banning them from unauthorized media
interviews.
17. Spending more money in a single year than any other government in
Canadian history, stoking inflation and threatening higher interest
rates
.18. Broken promise on taxing income trusts.
19. Deporting hardworking, tax-paying resident Portuguese drywallers.
20. Conservative MP Colin Mayes writing a column saying journalists who
disagree with Harper should be jailed.
21. Doing nothing about climate change or the environment for more than
a year, and until forced to by the polls.
22. Making a former lobbyist for military arms dealers the minister of
defence, in charge of $15 billion in spending.
23. Orchestrating a secret dirty tricks campaign against Bob Rae inside
the Liberal leadership convention.
24. Preaching Senate reform, then appointing Michael Fortier to the
Senate so he could be made an unelected cabinet minister.
25. Setting Jim Flaherty loose to attack Ontario’s economic policy
(after he led them into deficit) and succeeding in driving away business
and investment.
26. Failing to have any effective policy to help Ontario’s struggling
manufacturing sector, other than tax cuts for the ones enjoying a
profit.
27. Refusing to allow media coverage of the return home of our Afghan
war dead, without consulting the families.
28. Broken promise on providing a health care waiting time guarantee.
29. Threatening Conservative MPs with loss of party status if they
talked about funding cuts that affect their constituents.
30. Running the most secretive and least accountable government in
Canadian history after running on a platform of accountability
31. Attempts to block access by the Parliamentary Press Gallery to the
prime minister and cabinet. Secret timing of cabinet meetings to avoid
press.
32. Trying to dismantle the Canada Wheat Board and sacking its
president. Quote: "One Way or Another..."
33. Supporting Calgary Conservative MP Rob Anders’ bogus nomination
process, later overturned by the courts.
34. Trying to buy the 2007 Quebec election with a 34% increase in
transfer payments.
35. Refusal to even consider honouring the Kyoto Accord, or come up with
a credible alternative, until forced to by Parliament.
36. Appointing Liberal MP Wajid Khan as a mid-east advisor to write a
public report for Harper, then refusing to release it after he defected.
37. Claiming the Air India inquiry depended on anti-terrorism act
amendments that opposition MPs opposed, when lawyers said it did not.
38. Blacking out pages which supposedly provide proof of tax
leakage as justication for taxing income trusts when released under a
Freedom Of Information request and stating that it was done in the
“Interest of National Security.
39. Refusing to apologize for wiping out $25 billion in private savings
with one tax measure, a great deal of it belonging to seniors.
40. Raising personal income tax rate for the lowest bracket to help pay
for record government spending.
41. Vowing to dismantle gun registry after fatal shooting in Montreal
with registered weapons.
42. Cabinet minister Peter Van Loan botching the electoral reform
commission hearings.
43. Cutting the Energuide program for low-income homeowners and
replacing it with a new one for higher-income homeowners.
44. Canceling the Kelowna Accord, cutting off talks with first nations’
leaders and refusing to deal with the Caledonia crisis.
45. Saying opposition MPs have “more passion for Taliban prisoners” than
they do for Canadian soldiers.
46. Spending $150,000 per weapon to arm border guards.
47. Constant campaigning, rather than governing.
48. Not a single new child care space after promising 125,000 would be
created in first Conservative mandate.
49. Finance Minister Jim Flaherty spending $400 on a pair of skates
while bringing in budget for “working families.”
50. Promising a lean government, and then bloating the cabinet by six
more people, with cars and drivers
51. Snubbing two of the world’s fastest-growing economies and most
promising trading partners, China and India.
52. Firing acclaimed conservative candidate Mark Warner for daring to
talk off issue about social issues concerning local residents.
53. Breaking a Conservative Blue book pledge to
Prevent party leaders from appointing
candidates without the democratic consent of local electoral district
associations.
54. Spending millions attacking Stephane Dion as “Not a Leader”. Why?
because he is the kind of open leader that Canadians respect and he
fears.
55. Breaking promises to provinces, including Newfoundland and Labrador
and Saskatchewan, over transfer payments, while showering Quebec.
56. Politicizing the police and the military.
57. Linking a vote on pension income-splitting for seniors to taxing
income trusts.
58. Cutting funding to women’s programs only to restore it after staff
was fired.
59. Accusing those concerned with human rights of being soft on crime,
soft on terror and bashing police.
60. Heritage Minister Bev Oda spending $5,000 on Halifax limos to arrive
in style at the Juno awards.
61. Allowing one of his “advisors” John Reynolds to be a registered
lobbyist for the Rick Hanson Foundation (which I think he is on the
board) and giving mega bucks for research for spinal cord injuries.
62. When everyone wants an end to school yard bullying and internet
bullying he sets an example to kids that it is acceptable to bully.
63. Steals Liberal policies and renames them (and lies about it) just to
get votes.
64. His budget (07) is costing Canadian taxpayers each $1,000. to buy
Quebec votes.
65. Using taxpayers money to deliver and solicit responses via "10
percenter's" sent by out of riding Con MP's to distant ridings. Thinly
disguised campaigning... yet another "bend the rules" Harper
contrivance.
66. The Cadman Affair, questionable and possibly illegally attempting to
influence the vote of a dying MP. More "rule bending".
67. Suing the opposition for doing its job.
68. Continually changing his story about the Cadman tape. Unanswered
questions abound.
69. Normally leaving the House of Commons by the back door to avoid
answering media questions.
70. Ignoring Canadian scientists who had won Nobel prizes when their
science didn't match with his views of reality.
71. Massive spending on advertising prior to an election call.
72. Rona Ambrose, as environment minister, firing a government scientist
for writing a book on global warming.
73. Stacking a stem cell research advisory committee with pro-life
Conservatives.
74. Breaking the Atlantic Accord after promising not to.
75. Denying all
veteran's widows extended benefits after promising to do so.
76. Snubbing
Canadian United Nations High Commissioner for Human rights, Louise
Arbour
77. Causing the
loss of Bell Canada and dozens of Income Trusts to Private equity firms
with an ill conceived Income Trust policy, resulting in reduced tax
revenue
78. Stacking the
judiciary with pro-Conservative judges after vowing open appointments.
79. Selling out
to the Americans on softwood lumber and leaving a 1 billion dollar tip
on the table.
80. Cutting
funding to literacy programs, then sending Laureen Harper to a literacy
event.
81 The Elections
Canada raid on Conservative party headquarters, investigating the ‘in
and out” election financing scheme.
82. David
Emerson
83. Ignoring the
advice of the Canadian Nuclear Agency on the Chalk River reactor
84. Firing Linda
Keen the head of the Canadian Nuclear Agency a supposedly independent
quasi judicial body hours before she was to testify a parliamentary
committee
85. Hiding the
Minister responsible for nuclear safety Gary Lunn, for weeks and billing
taxpayer for an imagine consultants services before he would re-appear
86. Dropping his
friend and valued advisor Brian Mulroney like a hot potato, when
Schreiber’s allegations are made public.
87. Losing all
the correspondence sent to the PMO by Schreiber over a year.
88. Resisting
all calls for a public inquiry until his ex friend Brian Mulroney
demanded one.
89. The Obama
Leak, leaking confidential diplomatic comments to help right wing
friends.
90. Vigorously
attack the Liberal party plans on the economy, environment, and poverty
while having no effective plan after 3 years.
91.
Maxime Bernier Canada’s Foreign Affairs
Minister leaves top secret documents at his girlfriends'
house.
92.
Not realising for weeks that he had done
so (until pointed out to him), so much for taking homework home!
93. Ignoring one
of John Manley’s key recommendations on Afghanistan to improve
communication to Canadians on progress.
94. Dredging up
anti-gay sentiments by forcing another vote in Parliament on same-sex
marriage
95. Conservative
MP Helena Guergis leaks details of Stephane Dion’s top secret tour to
Afghanistan thus endangering his life and those of the troops protecting him.
96. Attacking
Dion for pointing out that Pakistan’s support of terrorist training
camps was a major problem in Afghanistan. Something that evidently had
not occurred to him
97. Pushing
recognition of “the Quebecois as a nation” through Parliament in order
to win seats in that province.
98. Smearing MP
Nav Bains’ father-in-law as being a potential terrorist, in the House of
Commons
99. John Baird’s
partisanship.
100. Security
Minister Stockwell Day denying a former MP was bought off to secure Day a
seat in Parliament.
101. Refusing to
lower Canadian flags to honour our fallen military heroes.
102.
Promising
investors a break on capital gains taxes and then abandoning it after
being elected.
103. Refusing to use the Canadian Press Gallery except on one occasion.
104. Refusing to accept questions from the press except a few carefully
screened journalists.
105. Attempt to introduce a copyright act based on the Digital
Millennium Act, a wish list produced by industry. Refusing to answer
questions as usual.
106. Stopping public servants making statements without approval from
the PMO
107. Stopping Conservative MPs making statements without approval from
the PMO
108.
Harper’s broken promise to rescind a 'temporary deficit reduction
tax' on gas, in spite of the deficit having been eliminated..
109. Harper’s broken promise to reduce federal fuel
taxes if gas goes over 85 cents/l, saying “get used to it” and “the
reduction would be insignificant” after being elected.
110. Making this list too darn easy to write
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