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Friday, January 9, 2015

A vote for Conservatives is a vote for the end of public health care in Canada and so much more.

How Harper killed medicare — and got away with it

The Harper government’s anti-democratic actions have been so numerous, it’s easy to lose track of them.

I almost forgot, for instance, about the way it clamped down on that little bird-watching group in southwestern Ontario, putting its charitable status under surveillance after the group raised concerns about government-approved chemicals damaging bee colonies.

Harper’s behaviour — his attack on the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, his muzzling of government scientists and disdain for scientific evidence, his proroguing of Parliament to save his own skin, his use of omnibus bills to avoid Parliamentary scrutiny — has been so at odds with democracy and the democratic process that he’s even alienated many of his natural allies in Canada’s elite.

READ MORE: http://www.ipolitics.ca/2015/01/07/how-harper-killed-medicare-and-got-away-with-it/

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