Harpers Conservative list of lies

 Volume 3 –

• Using taxpayer funded ten-percenters and constituency mailers, and House of Commons free mailing privileges to send out attack literature;

• wants to change copyright law to allow for privately owned news copy to be used free of charge in attack ads……but has done nothing to protect film & music copyright owners receive proper payment;

• using the Canada Revenue Agency as an arm of PMO to target groups and agencies deemed ‘unfriendly’ to the Harper government;

• scrapped 3,000 environmental reviews on pipelines and other projects;

• Canada ranked worst of G7 nations in fighting bribery & corruption, by Transparency International, the watchdog agency that monitors global corruption;

• Canada slipped out of the top 10 countries listed in the annual United Nation’s human development index — a far cry from the 1990s when it held the first place for most of the decade (rating a country’s performance in health, education and income);

• cancelled the Health Council of Canada and the 10-year health Provincial accord that led to its creation;

• consistently used Omnibus bills to hide and pass controversial legislation that it did not want to debate separately;

• government employment policies stimulate creation of part-time jobs at the expense of full-time positions;

• Canada performance ranked as 58th out 61 industrialized countries by international climate organization;

• closed Fisheries Library……and destroyed research materials;

• Held back $7 billion in approved spending to finance tax cuts……depriving some departments of required operating funds;

• Listeria Outbreak;

• Transparency Lies,

• Accountability Lies,

• Afghanistan Secrecy;

• CRTC Meddling,

• Rona Ambrose lies & ineptness;

• Anti-Intellectualism;

• Fake election phone calls in 34 ridings,

• Fake Citizenship ceremonies,

• Tony Clement's $50 million Gazebo fund,

• Misleading Parliament on what the Gazebo Fund was supposed to be used for,

• In And Out election violations,

• Income Trusts lies,

• Security Leaks,

• Cadman Affair;

• fired Nuclear Watchdog Linda Keane for doing her job,

• fired head of Military Police Inquiry for doing his job,

• fired Veteran's Ombudsman for doing his job,

• had Firearm Long Gun Mountie removed for doing his job,

• eviscerated Long Form Census to keep facts from the public,

• trashed Diplomat Richard Colvin for doing his job;

• Dishonestly used image of Canadarm with photoshopped Canada logo on government websites;

• Canada Was The Only UN Member To Reject Landmark Indigenous Rights Document;

• Ignored UN Environmental Commission report on urgent need to get greenhouse gasses under control;

• Conservative Parliamentary Assistant Alexandra Constantinidis caught twice, trying record Liberal candidate’s private conversation;

• Spent $15.4 million on a records archival system it never used (2014 Auditor General’s Report);

These have all been well documented in the press over the last 8 years. Just do a google search on any item, and see for yourself !!

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