Harper's Record: A Long, Long List
This list was provided by a commenter named "Conservative Lies" in the comments section on today's Globe & Mail poll:
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Conservative Lies
It's too bad they didn't post the list Stephen Harper's long, dismal record of lies and incompetence at the beginning of the poll !!
Volume 1-
• Harper’s former Parliamentary Secretary, Dean Del Mastro, found guilty of election fraud;
• Government found guilty of election fraud 5 times in 8 years;
• Spent $7 million in partisan anti-drug ads in just 3 months
• Has spent $700,000 fighting Canada’s veterans in court
• Spent tens of millions of taxpayer dollars developing partisan legislation that stood no chance of withstanding a Constitutional challenge……and when all were overturned by the Supreme Court, began undermining the credibility of the Court, and its Chief Justice;
• Deception around Nigel Wright repaying the $90,000 Conservative Senator Mike Duffy defrauded from taxpayers, closing off investigation and refusing to give details….with RCMP finding all trails lead back to Stephen Harper’s office;
• undemocratic ‘Fair Elections Act’ removing ability of Elections Canada to do its job;
• Auditor General reported $3.1 billion in anti- terror funding missing; using taxpayer dollars to fund partisan personal attack ads;
• Spent $750 million taxpayer dollars in partisan advertising;
• found guilty on three separate occasions of election fraud and campaign financing violations;
• Allowed XL Foods meat processing plant to continue to process and distribute tainted meat for 3 weeks after U.S. stopped importing for the same reason;
• Over spent those cabinet-approved ad budgets by $128-million — more than 37 per cent…..all the while cutting funding to important government programs;
• Shut down Committee investigating F-35 purchase scandal;
• Conservative campaign staff proven to be behind Guelph Robocalls;
• Lied to Parliament and the Canadian public about the true cost of the F-35's,
• Auditor General proves fraud and incompetence in Government's F-35 purchase,
• Increased the size of the federal public service by 32,000 employees, increased government spending by 30% to a record $276 billion,
• largest deficit in Canadian history,
• Industry Minister Christian Paradis stays in Cabinet after being found in violation of the Conflict of Interest Act;
• First Government in Canadian History to be found in Contempt of Parliament,
• Took $38.2 billion Liberal Surplus, and ran it into 53 Billion Dollar Deficit,
• screwed up G8 and G20 Meetings,
• Veterans Affairs Minister Fantino criticized for spending $4 million on advertising programs for veterans rather than investing the money in services;
• $1.3 billion in unspent funding for Veterans returned to Treasury to help balance budget after Veterans Services cutbacks;
Cont’d in Volume 2………..(see next Reply)
Volume 2 –
• ignored recommendations contained in 2012 Auditor General’s Report regarding security deficiencies at the Parliament Buildings…….contributing to the killing of a soldier there on October 22, 2014;
• reduced funding for Canada’s military to an all-time low of 1.4% of GDP;
• Despite the Conservative government’s frequent warnings about lingering terrorist threats, it quietly abolished a federal panel of national security advisers;
• Lost Canada’s seat on the Security Council;
• Turned down $300 million offer to sell the Canadian Wheat Board’s assets to Canadian farmers, so he could give them to American businessmen for FREE;
• The annual cost of paying Conservative political staffers working in a network of satellite minister’s offices ballooned by 70 per cent (from $1.6 million to $2.7 million) during the same years the government was eliminating some departments and programs, and ordering others to tighten their belts;
• ratified a controversial 31 year treaty that will allow China to sue Canada in secret tribunals for Canadian laws that interfere with Chinese investments;
• muzzled outgoing leader of Canadian Joint Operations Command (CJOC), Lt.-Gen. Stu Beare …. preventing him from talking to journalists about the challenges that CJOC and Canada face during this period of global tumult;
• another of Stephen Harper’s key pieces of legislation was deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Canada, when his section limiting pre-trial sentencing credit was overturned;
• imposition of new federal grain and transportation rules, that because of lack of coordination, transparency, accountability, and infrastructure……caused global clients to walk away and buy elsewhere……at a cost of $5 billion to Canadian farmers;
• poor monitoring of safety and environmental controls by Department of Transport, detailed in damning Transportation Safety Board report as a contributing factor in the Lac-Mégantic train derailment that killed 47 people;
• A report by Canada’s veterans watchdog says nearly half of the country’s most severely disabled ex-soldiers are not receiving a government allowance intended to compensate them for their physical and mental wounds; instructed civil servants to begin deleting ‘sensitive’ emails; Under proposed changes to prescribed annuity taxation, Canadian poor seniors will pay a lot more taxes; according to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation……
• Stephen Harper employs 3,325 spin doctors, at a cost of $263 million…..almost equal to the cost of operating the House of Commons;
• sent out email to Public Servants asking them to promote Conservative tax proposal on Twitter;
• Harper government paid $35 million to quietly settle lawsuit regarding contract dispute where Conservatives rigged the bidding process;
• Paul Calandra's dishonest and embarrassing performance answering questions in the HoC;
Cont’d in Volume 3……….(see next Reply)
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);
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