Tuesday 12 April 2011

Stephen Harper is a Criminal (List of Crimes)

I am not, nor have I ever been, a blogger...  But it bothers me that so many people see Stephen "I wanna be a dictator" Harper as a viable choice for this country's leadership.

Below is a short list of some of the recent crimes against this country perpetrated by Mr. Harper and his cronies:


  • Prorogued Parliament (twice!) to cover up/interrupt investigations into misconduct in his cabinet.
  • Refused to take responsibility for the detainment and TORTURE of Afghani soldiers.
  • Refuses to take responsibility for ANYTHING.
  • Ignore elections act legislation by "in-and-out"-ing large cash sums to individual ridings to defraud tax-payers and fund local candidates.
  • Used the RCMP to suppress free-speech during the G8/G20 summit (and spent 1 BILLION on that security)
  • Hired a convicted fraud-artist to help with his campaign.
  • Appointed a creationist as science minister (who refused to answer questions about evolution because "it was against his religious beliefs).
  • Plans to spend over 20 billion dollars on a new fleet of fighters while millions don't even have a family physician.
  • Got Canada kicked off the UN security council.
  • Has been an ardent supporter of the oil-sands, and enemy of environmentalism.  Since he was elected, Canada has had the worst environmental record of any of the G8 nations.
  • Used his newly appointed Senate (full of conservative politicians unable to get elected in their own ridings), to kill a climate bill that had already passed the house (presumably at the behest of his key sponsor, the Alberta oil-sands companies).
  • Showed a decided partisan bias during stimulus spending, in which 60% of stimulus money was spent in conservative ridings (when only 46% of ridings were conservative; leaving the other 54% percent to split the remaining 40% of the money)
  • Used $50 million of a G8 legacy fund to pay for projects in Tony Clement's riding of Muskoka/Parry Sound, despite the bulk of the projects having NOTHING to do with the G8/G20 and being, in some cases, 100 km away from any of the summit sites (all of this without the approval of parliament).
  • Continued centralization of power in the Premier’s office at the expense of elected representatives.
  • forced municipal and hospital amalgamations (reduced local democracy).
  • forced amalgamations of school boards and stripped trustees of powers.
  • diminished workers rights to engage in fair collective bargaining.
  • took food out of the mouths of the poor with a 20% cut in welfare payments.
  • deregulation and privatization (less  public control).
  • gutting of the Ontario Women’s Directorate.
  • changed Legislative rules to limit parliamentary debate.
  • cut back on advocacy groups funding.
  • reduced the number of ridings and representatives in Ontario by about 25%.
  • set up the permanent voter’s list which helped disenfranchise enough students and tenants to help them to squeak to a second “majority” in 1999 with less than 10,000 votes province-wide in 9 ridings and only 45% of the popular vote despite a citizens’ campaign for “strategic voting” to defeat the government.
  • Ejected REGISTERED attendees from his campaign stops after SEARCHING THROUGH THEIR FACEBOOK PROFILES.  These people were actually there to listen, but clearly the only people that Harper can talk to are people who already bought his bullshit.
  • Has actually lowered taxes on the wealthy to the point where the bottom 10% wage earners are actually taxed more than the top 1%.
  • Did not investigate the "Bev Oda" scandal, in which one of his own ministers pencilled in a "not" that denied federal funding to an international aid organization, and then lied about it.
  • Misrepresented a quote from auditor general Sheila Fraser to make it sound like she supported the Harper Government's handling of the G8 monies (she was in fact referring to the Liberal handling of the 9/11 relief fund...)

Okay, so I think the above is a good start.  I won't take credit for the images below, they are from www.nabert.org , but I think they sum a lot of the above up nicely.  I will add to this post as I go on...







6 comments:

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  2. I've been sharing your list and find it quite helpful, but I'm wondering if the jet-cost figure should not perhaps be "over $20 billion"? I know the cost may be well over the official estimate, but I thought I'd alert you to the fact that--unless there's evidence I'm unaware of--you might have an extra zero in there.
    Thanks for considering, and thanks again for the passionate effort to inform!

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  3. Thanks steve! Made the correction. I was caught thinking about 2 figures at the same time: 200 million per jet, and 20 billion for the project. Guess the 2 numbers were trying to get out at the same time!

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  4. You're most welcome. But given the wildly divergent estimates I've since come across, the first figure might just turn out to be closest!

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  5. Excellent post! You posted this on April 12th and by now that list has grown exponentially. Will you be updated it? It's an important piece of work that people can be reminded of everything he's done to undermine our democracy, constitution and freedoms. This documentation is invaluable. Before anyone gets my vote in the next federal election they better commit to undoing all that's been done under Steve's illegitimate reign of terror. He's a criminal and has betrayed the people of Canada.

    Would you mind if I use the facts/material in this post for my next protest video?? Here's the first one: http://youtu.be/sJLzvQG0ET0

    Thank you for your voice and all that you're doing to raise awareness and to save our democracy. You ROCK! Solidarity!

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