Harpercon'd -- Stephen Harper's Attack on Canada (compiled by Geoffrey Laxton)
HARPERCON'D INSTALLATION
STEPHEN HARPER’S ATTACK ON CANADA
Last updated November 2013
CIVIL SERVANTS AND GOVERNMENT
OFFICIALS:
1. Chief Supt. Marty Cheliak, Director General
Canada Firearms Program.
2. Adran Measner, President and CEO Canadian
Wheat Board.
3. Dr. Linda Keen, chair Canadian Nuclear Safety
Commission.
4. Richard Colvin, diplomat Foreign Affairs.
5. Earl Turcotte lead negotiator Mine Action and
Small Arms Team, Foreign Affairs.
6. Peter Tinsley head of Military Police Complaints
Commission.
7. Yves Coté Ombudsman for the Department of
National Defence and the Canadian Forces.
8. Kevin Page Parliamentary Budget Officer.
9. Paul Kennedy, chair RCMP Police Complaints
Commission.
10. Rémy Beauregard, President Rights &
Democracy International Centre for Human
Rights and Democratic Development.
11. Munir Sheikh, Deputy Minister, Statistics
Canada.
12. Col. Pat Stogran, Ombudsman,Veterans Affairs.
13. Steve Sullivan, Ombudsman, Victims of Crime.
14. Garth Turner, Member of Parliament, Halton.
15. Edgar Schmidt, Department of Justice sues
government for failing to check if federal laws
violate the Charter of Rights.
16. Adrian Measner, the president of the Canadian
Wheat Board (CWB), is fired by the Harper
government.
17. Harper censors much of Justice Dennis
O'Connor's report on the Mahar Arar affair to
avoid public scrutiny from Canadians and to
protect US security agencies.
18. Bill Casey removed from caucus.
19. Jean-Pierre Kingsley, head of Elections Canada,
resigns his post after confronting the Harper
government over whether it broke the law with its
handling of political donations at 2005 national
convention.
20. Richard Colvin, Canadian diplomat who gained
public attention during the Afghan Detainee
Issue.
SCIENCE:
21. Access to the National Advanced Laser Light
Source (ALLS) facility.
22. Alternatives (Quebec).
23. Aquatron Laboratory.
24. Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre.
25. Banff International Research Station.
26. Biogeoscience Institute.
27. Brockhouse Institute.
28. Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding.
29. Canadian Centre for Innovative Geochronology.
30. Canadian Foundation for Climate and
Atmospheric Research.
31. Canadian Light Source Syncrotron.
32. Canadian Neutron Beam Centre.
33. Canadian Phycological Culture Centre for Algae,
Cyanobacteria and Lemna.
34. Canadian Resource Centre for Zebrafish
Genetics.
35. Canadian Scientific Submersible Facility.
36. Canadian Space Agency - Radarsat
Constellation Mission.
37. Canadian SuperDARN / PolarDARN facility.
38. CanAMS - IsoTrace AMS facility.
39. CCGS Amundsen research icebreaker.
40. Centre for Characterization and Microscopy of
Materials, the (CM)Ç.
41. Centre de Recherches Mathématiques.
42. Centre for Emerging Device Technologies.
43. Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music
Media and Technology (CIRMMT).
44. Centre for Northern Studies.
45. CITA - Canadian Institute for Theoretical
Astrophysics.
46. Department of Fisheries muzzled and jobs
eliminated.
47. Coriolis II - Research vessel.
48. Experimental Lakes Area closed.
49. Félix d'Hérelle Reference Center for Bacterial
Viruses, Université Laval.
50. Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical
Sciences.
51. Graduate students left in the lurch by closure of
world class research facility.
52. Helmholtz Association of German Research
Centres withdraws from Canadian Oilsands
environmental research.
53. Institute for Research In Materials.
54. Institute of Ocean Sciences.
55. Kluane Lake Research Station.
56. National Ultrahigh-Field Nuclear Magnetic
Resonance NMR Facility for Solids.
57. Microfungal Collection and Herbarium.
58. Nanofabrication facility support.
59. NANUC - National High Field Nuclear Magnetic
Resonance Centre.
60. NEPTUNE Canada - ocean floor observatory
network.
61. Neuroendocrinology Assay Lab (NAL) in
Psychology Department of Western University.
62. OIE Reference Laboratory for Infectious Salmon
Anaemia.
63. Pacific Northwest Consortium Synchrotron
Radiation Facility.
64. Parks Canada muzzled and jobs eliminated.
65. PIMS - Pacific Institute for the Mathematical
Sciences.
66. Polar Continental Shelf Program.
67. POLARIS - Portable Observatories for
Lithospheric Analysis and Research
Investigating.
68. POLYNOV - Industrial Scale Polymer
Laboratory, École Polytechnique de Montréal.
69. Quebec / Eastern Canada High Field NMR
Facility.
70. Queen's Facility for Isotope Research, Queen’s
University.
71. Research on toxic accumulation in freshwater --
Institute for Freshwater Science.
72. Research investigating the effects of agricultural
runoff on freshwater.
73. Research on Salmon in Fraser River,
government scientist forbidden to talk about her
findings.
74. Resource for the Innovation of Engineering
Materials.
75. Science Adviser to the Prime Minister position
terminated in 2008 and left vacant.
76. Sierra Club of BC.
77. SNOLAB underground science laboratory
specializing in neutrino and dark matter physics.
78. St Andrews Biological Station studie toxicology
and contaminants for the DFO.
79. Study of beluga whale health and contaminants
in the Arctic.
80. Sudbury Neutrino Observatory.
81. Compute/Calcul Canada (CC), integration of
High Performance Computing (HPC) resources.
82. The Pacific Centre for Isotopic and Geochemical
Research.
83. TRIUMF , national laboratory for particle and
nuclear physics.
84. VENUS Ocean Observatory.
85. Whapmagoostui-Kuujjuarapik Research Station.
CIVIL SERVICE
86. Canada School of Public Service.
WOMEN
87. Eliminated “equality” from the mandate of Status
of Women Canada.
88. Action travail des femmes.
89. Alberta Network of Immigrant Women.
90. Association féminine d'éducation et d'action
sociale (AFEAS).
91. Canadian Research Institute for the
Advancement of Women.
92. Centre de documentation sur l'éducation des
adultes et la condition feminine.
93. Conseil d'intervention pour l'accès des femmes
au travail (CIAFT).
94. Elspeth Heyworth Centre for Women Toronto:
(Funding cut by CIC in December 2010).
95. Feminists for Just and Equitable Public Policy
(FemJEPP) in Nova Scotia.
96. MATCH International, Canadian international
organization for women’s rights and equality.
97. New Brunswick Coalition for Pay Equity.
98. Réseau des Tables régionales de groupes de
femmes du Québec.
99. Riverdale Women's Centre Toronto.
100. South Asian Women's Centre.
101. University of New Brunswick MRI Centre.
102. Womanspace Resource Centre (Lethbridge,
Alberta).
103. Women's Innovative Justice Initiative — Nova
Scotia.
104. Workplace Equity/Employment Equity Program.
105. Federal government cut 39 percent of the
operating budget from Status of Women Canada.
FIRST NATIONS
106. Aboriginal Healing Foundation.
107. Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs lost most of their
funding because they challenged the Harper
Government on Indigenous issues.
108. Funding Agreement changes that blackmail
Chiefs into signing.
109. First Nations and Inuit Tobacco Control Program.
110. First Nations Child and Family Caring Society.
111. First Nations Statistical Institute crown
corporation which bridged gap between
StatsCan and Aboriginal community.
112. Kelowna Accord cancelled after promising the
$5.1 billion agreement would be honoured.
113. Native Women's Association of Canada.
114. Sisters in Spirit.
115. Government changes to National Energy Board
make First Nations' concerns 'Irrelevant'.
116. Surveillance of Aboriginal Communities by INAC
and the RCMP.
117. Pierre Poilievre complained to radio listeners in
Ottawa that the compensation payments for
Residential School abuses were not a helpful
component of the apology.
118. Harper government ties training to welfare for
natives on reserve.
JUSTICE
119. Court Challenges Program cancelled except
language rights and legacy cases.
120. Court Commission of Canada cut.
121. KAIROS, Canadian Ecumenical Justice
Initiatives funding cut.
122. Law Reform Commission of Canada funding cut.
123. National Association of Women and the Law
(NAWL) funding cut.
124. Royal Canadian Mounted Police External Review
Committee.
125. Hid justice department studies on crime.
126. Supreme Court of Canada Harper promised that
new Supreme Court justices would be
questioned by a public parliamentary hearing
and that a free vote held in the House of
Commons, but instead he appointed an ad-hoc
parliamentary committee to question new
appointees.
127. Status of Women Canada mandate changed to
exclude "gender equality and political justice"
and bans all advocacy, policy research and
lobbying.
SOCIAL POLICY AND PROGRAMS
128. Bloor Information and Life Skills Centre funding
cut.
129. Brampton Neighbourhood Services (Ontario)
funding cut.
130. Canada Policy Research Networks funding cut.
131. Canadian Council on Social Development
funding cut.
132. Canadian Heritage Centre for Research and
Information on Canada funding cut.
133. Canadian Labour Business Centre funding cut.
134. Canadian Volunteerism Initiative funding cut.
135. Catholic Organization for Development and
Peace funding cut.
136. Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation
(CERA) funding cut.
137. Community Action Resource Centre (CARC)
funding cut.
138. Davenport-Perth Neighbourhood Centre Toronto:
(Funding cut by CIC in December 2010).
139. Democracy Council funding cut.
140. Inter-Cultural Neighbourhood Social Services
(Peel) funding cut.
141. Marie Stopes International, a maternal health
agency — has received only a promise of
"conditional" funding if it avoids any and all
connection with abortion.
142. Mennonite Central Committee, the Canadian
International Development Agency (CIDA) turned
down MCC’s proposal of $2.9 million over three
years to provide food, water and income
generation assistance for people in developing
countries.
143. Northwood Neighbourhood Services, Toronto,
funding cut by CIC in December 2010.
144. Ontario Association of Interval and Transition
Houses (OAITH).
145. Ontario Association of Transitional Housing
(OAITH).
146. Pride Toronto funding cut.
147. Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council of Canada.
148. Assault on Statistics Canada continues.
149. York South-Weston Community Services Centre
Toronto.
150. 2006 budget cut billions of dollars from social
programs despite Harper having inherited the
strongest financial position of any incoming
government in Canadian history.
CHILDREN AND YOUTH
151. Canadian Child Care Federation.
152. Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada.
153. Child Tax Benefit, Stephen Harper campaigned
to have the child tax benefit increased to $5100
per child, but instead he increased the Child Tax
Credit which will do absolutely nothing for the
poorest children whose families have no taxable
income.
154. Childcare Resource and Research Unit,
Specialink.
155. HRD Youth Employment Programs.
156. Katimavik youth volunteer program, terminated.
157. Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care.
158. Plan Canada.
159. Refugee children can be incarcerated for over a
year.
160. Youth International Internship Program.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
161. Canadian Council for International Cooperation.
162. Canadian International Development Agency,
Office of Democratic Governance.
163. Canadian participation in the International
Continental Drilling Program.
164. Department of Foreign Affairs, Democracy Unit.
165. Forum of Federations.
166. International Planned Parenthood Federation.
167. Canada refused UN Security Council seat.
EDUCATION
168. Canadian Council on Learning.
169. Canadian Teachers' Federation International
program.
170. Climate Action Network.
171. Community Access Program, internet access for
communities at libraries, post offices, community
centres.
172. HRD Adult Learning and Literacy programs.
173. Maurice-Lamontagne Institute's French language
library.
VETERANS
174. Confidential medical files leaked and other low
tactics used in bid to embarrass Veterans who
challenged government.
175. VIP services to the widows of all Second World
War and Korean War veterans cut after
promise to keep it in the party’s Blue Book for all
to see.
176. Watchdog warned government that Veterans not
getting the help they need and was ignored.
177. Veterans went to court to fight for pensions that
had been clawed back. They won. Gov’t
appealed. Veterans won again
178. Wounded Canadian veteran Dennis Manuge
recently won a lawsuit against the federal
government, concerning improperly withheld
disability payments.
IMMIGRANTS
179. Afghan Association of Ontario, funding cut,
Immigrants Settlement and Adaptation Program
(ISAP) terminated.
180. Canadian Arab Federation.
181. Centre for Spanish Speaking Peoples (Toronto).
182. Eritrean Canadian Community Centre of
Metropolitan Toronto (Funding cut by CIC in
December 2010).
183. Hamilton's Settlement and Integration Services
Organization (Ontario).
184. Immigrant settlement programs.
185. Mada Al-Carmel Arab Centre.
186. Tropicana Community Services.
187. Broke an election promise to outdo the Liberal
government on investments in integrating
foreign-trained workers into Canada and actually
invested nine times LESS.
188. Roma and Sri Lankan women and children held
in detention centres.
189. Slashed $20 million set aside to update
Canada’s citizenship laws.
PROVINCES:
190. Harper refuses to meet with Provincial Premiers.
191. Broke his promise to Newfoundland and
Labrador to keep non-renewable energy
resources out of the equalization formula.
192. Reneged on his campaign promise to Quebec to
give the province a place at the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
193. Harper broke his election promise to implement
the Patient Wait Times Guarantee and instead
recycled the Liberals’ $5.5-billion Wait Times
Reduction fund, but downloaded its responsibility
to the provinces and territories without investing
any new money.
194. Harper back-pedaled on a firm commitment to
remove non-renewable resource revenue from
the equalization formula resulting in the loss of
hundreds of millions of dollars for some
provinces.
DEMOCRACY:
195. Harper put a stop to “parliamentary scrum”
where reporters asked questions of the prime
minister everyday in the House of Commons
THE DAY AFTER he first got elected in 2006
with a minority and BEFORE even taking office
and announced that journalists will no longer
have open access to the PM.
196. Does not answer questions during Question
Period.
197. Eliminated Access to Information database.
198. Appointed campaign organizer Michael Fortier to
the Senate so he could sit in Cabinet, after years
of calling for an elected Senate.
199. Alleged that the opposition parties have no right
to form a government as a coalition after
previously arguing for opposition coalitions to
form a government.
200. The Rights and Democracy fiasco.
201. Refusing to acknowledge or celebrate the
Charter.
202. For the first time in our 145 year history,
Parliament Hill was closed to people on Canada
Day 2012.
203. Doesn’t disclose cost of programs and keeps two
sets of books.
204. The Harper government has replaced the label
“government of Canada” with “Harper
government” on all official papers, costing
taxpayer millions of dollars.
205. Defied Parliament's rightful demand for
documents.
206. Padlocked Parliament.
207. Prorogued Parliament three times.
208. Snuffed out democratic challenge to MP Rob
Anders.
209. Barred cabinet staffers from testifying before
committees.
210. Rammed through two record-breaking omnibus
budget bills with almost no opportunity for debate
in Parliament.
211. John Baird misled parliament on real intent of
money spent in Clement’s riding during G8 / G20
summit preparations.
212. Conservative misleading phone calls in Irwin
Cotler’s riding declared “reprehensible” by
Speaker of the House of Commons.
213. Spent over $1 billion on G-8/20 summit.
214. During election campaigns severely limits
reporter’s questions to four per day and obliges
reporters to hand over their questions 24 hours
in advance.
215. Harper brought foreign US advisors during
elections which is against the law.
216. Drastically cutting the CBC funding.
217. Harper knowingly lied when he said the F35s
contract was signed.
218. Blocked the Auditor General`s report from being
released until AFTER the 2011 election.
219. Irwin Cotler riding robocalled with misleading
calls.
220. All committees are now “in camera”.
221. Always holds “photo ops” instead of press
conferences between elections.
ABUSES OF POWER:
222. Appointed failed election candidates to Senate.
223. Scrapped the Canada Wheat Board in a move
that the Federal Court of Canada cited as
“disregard for the rule of law.”
224. Spends $20 million per year riding in motorcade
from PM residence to Parliament when previous
Prime Ministers walked.
225. Attempted to pass Internet Surveillance Bill.
226. G-20 mass arrests.
227. Harper government is suing the Auditor General
of Canada to avoid audits.
228. Gave the CIA and the FBI the right to arrest
Canadians ON CANADIAN SOIL.
229. Made it illegal to wear a face covering during an
assembly.
230. The Canada-China investment treaty that Harper
QUIETLY tabled allows for confidential lawsuits
against Canada.
231. Constantly invoking “closure” in committees and
on debates in the parliament.
232. Makes major announcement on foreign trips and
on Friday afternoons, before long weekends and
holidays.
233. Used the Vancouver 2010 Olympics for
Conservative Party propaganda.
234. Redacts documents ordered by parliament citing
“national security”.
235. 2008 Election Fraud in the riding of Saanitch-
Gulf Islands.
236. 2011 wide-spread Election Fraud in 234 ridings.
237. Created an office for monitoring online activity to
“correct misinformation”.
238. In-and-out money shuffle resulting in convictions
of CPC and CFC.
239. David Emerson enticed to cross floor and
appointed to Cabinet.
240. Vetting system.
241. Unelected Senator named to cabinet.
242. Harper stopped book talk by Environment
Canada scientist Mark Tushingham who wrote a
science fiction novel called Hotter than Hell.
243. NAFTA-gate.
244. Afghan detainees misinformation campaign.
245. Accountability measures reversed on half
promised.
246. Published a secret committee obstruction
handbook.
247. Attack ads launched between elections.
248. Attacked Opposition for not supporting the
troops.
249. Tom Flanagan book, “Harper’s Team” censored.
250. Elections Canada attacked.
251. McGuinty attacked as the small man of
Confederation.
252. Ontario declared the last place to invest.
253. Ordered police to remove journalists from a hotel
lobby to prevent coverage of a Tory caucus
meeting.
254. Labelled Louise Arbour a national disgrace.
255. Attempted to discipline an academic for
criticizing the government.
256. Made a bid to vet even the press releases of the
auditor general.
257. Scripted Conservative supporters' calls to radio
talk jocks.
258. Blocked information on cabinet ministers' use of
government jets.
259. Belittled arts gala-goers as “elitists”.
260. Released an online attack ad featuring a bird
defacating on Stéphane Dion’s head.
261. Plagiarized the Australian prime minister's
speech.
262. Hid an RCMP firearms report to prevent
embarrassment on cancelling the gun registry.
263. Downgraded Diane Ablonczy for her support of
gay pride week in Toronto.
264. Smeared TD Bank executive Ed Clark as a
Liberal hack for his statement on the deficit.
265. Stripped political parties of public funding.
266. Declared Brian Mulroney persona non grata.
267. Slashed the budget of the Parliamentary Budget
Officer.
268. Put Conservative logos on government cheques
for stimulus funding.
269. Withheld details of stimulus funding.
270. Granted stimulus funding disproportionately to
Conservative ridings.
271. The move on Statistics Canada.
272. Mr. Harper's became the first prime minister in
history to be found in contempt of parliament.
273. Tony Clement was caught using $50-million in
taxpayer monies - supposedly intended for
border infrastructure - for a political slush fund.
274. Public servants compelled to take on political
roles in fake Citizenship dog and pony show.
275. Bev Oda altered document with hand written
“NO” to decline KAIROS funding.
276. Citizens hauled out of Harper election campaign
rallies for having marginal ties to other parties.
277. Bogus photos leaked by Tory operatives in
campaign in bid to incriminate Michael Ignatieff
as Iraqi war planner.
278. Integrity Commissioner (as per AG report) found
to have whitewashed virtually every
whistleblowing complaint (about 220) that came
before her.
279. Bid to extend state controls by Toews to internet
surveillance.
280. Guilty verdict against top Conservatives on
reduced charges in In and Out affair.
281. Government caught lying by Canadian Press in
trying to deny insistence on “Harper
Government” labelling.
282. Increased in-camera sequestration of
parliamentary committee meetings away from
public and media.
283. Muzzling of scientists.
284. Decree stipulating staffers to cabinet ministers
no longer have to testify before committees.
285. Moves afoot to shield cabinet minister offices
from access to information laws.
286. Opposition members denied accreditation to
Durban climate-change summit then castigated
in Commons by government for not being there.
287. Funding religious groups who support Uganda
death penalty for gays.
288. Harper hired David Johnston to set the terms of
an inquiry after a Parliamentary committee
turned up envelopes of cash passed to Mulroney
in a hotel room, then appointed Johnston
Governor General.
289. Harper Government building $9 million barricade
for Parliament Hill.
290. Robocalls directing non-Conservative electors to
the wrong polling stations and harassing people
at odd hours.
291. Cancelling Garth Turner’s CPC membership for
criticizing David Emerson floor crossing and
keeping a blog.
292. Approved sale of NEXEN to CNOOC and then
changed the rules.
293. China FIPPA pending, locking Canada into 31
years of potential secret tribunals and loss of
sovereignty.
294. Stephen Harper secretly met China’s Minister of
Propaganda in Ottawa.
295. Plastering ridings with tax payer funded 10%er
flyers organized by a central committee.
296. Cut funding to the Canadian Food Inspection
Agency resulting in Listeriosis outbreak at Maple
Leaf Food and E-Coli outbreak at XL Foods.
297. Plan to merge Government of Canada websites
in an effort to cut off access to information.
Information from individual departments and
agencies has been disappearing.
298. 2012 omnibus budget bills that removes
protection from most water ways and lakes in
Canada.
299. Stephen Harper's Conservatives are compiling
and using detailed files of personal information
about Canadians with data from public, semipublic,
and possibly private sources for the
Conservative Party of Canada’s Constituency
Information Management System (CIMS).
300. SNC-Lavalin staff donated $15K to Conservative
nominee and executive involved in web of
corruption resulting in the arrest of the CEO. Two
key Conservatives were board members.
301. Conservative MPs used U.S.-based telemarketer
calls masked to hide Ohio origins contravening
law.
302. Didn’t deposit a balanced budget since 2009.
303. Added $150 billion to Canada’s debt.
304. Increased income tax rate for employees and
lowered income tax rate for corporations
305. Cancelled funding for part time non-Christian
prison chaplains exempting full time Christian
prison chaplains.
306. Created an “Office of Religious Freedoms” to
pander to the Christian right.
307. Merged CIDA and the Department of Foreign
Affairs and International Trade.
308. Office of Democratic Governance.
309. Shut down important Coast Guard stations in
BC, Ontario and Nova Scotia.
310. Pulled Canada out of the UN desertification
convention.
311. Blocked the UN indigenous people's rapporteur
from travelling to Canada.
312. Harper government fails Africa on AIDS drugs by
voting down the sale of generic drugs.
313. A $139-million project to fight HIV-AIDS,
launched by PM Stephen Harper in a glitzy
photo-op with Bill Gates canceled.
314. Feds spent nearly $54,000 on pro-oil lobbying
retreat over two days in London, England.
315. Tightened tactics breed dissent in Harper’s
security detail while spending millions on
security.
316. Status of Women drops long-standing raison
d’être, performance targets.
317. Halloween Massacre Income Trust Tax
implemented after promising not to in "Stand Up
For Canada" 2006 Election Platform.
318. Accountability Act only half implemented.
319. John Williamson shouted out “Free at last, free at
last!” celebrating the end of the long gun registry
in Parliament, mocking Martin Luther King Jr.
who was assassinated with a long gun.
320. Peter Mackay referred to his ex-girlfriend Belinda
Stronich as a dog in Parliament after she
crossed the floor to the Liberals.
321. Conservatives shut down Bill C-398 that would
have enabled Canada’s generic drug
manufacturers to provide inexpensive life-saving
medicines to Africans suffering from AIDS and
other curable diseases who can’t afford brandname
medicines.
322. Transport Canada admits to shortage in civil
aviation inspectors.
323. Defence Minister Peter MacKay used a searchand-
rescue helicopter in July 2010 for personal
reasons.
324. Kory Teneycke, moves back and forth between
the PMO and SUN news.
BROKEN PROMISES:
325. Merit based appointment promises ignored in
favour of appointing fundraisers, cronies and
campaigners despite illegal activities.
326. Approached Liberal Minister for key cabinet post
depite 40 Conservative MPs supporting private
members’ bill banning floor crossing without a
by-election.
327. Appointed Gordon O'Conner, former lobbyist for
the defence industry to Min of Defence despite
his party’s Accountability Act, which aimed to
“crack down on the revolving door between
ministers’ offices, the senior public service and
the lobbying industry”.
328. Committed to strengthening the role of the Ethics
Commissioner and preventing the Prime Minister
from overruling the Commissioner’s decisions in
the application of ethics rules, but refused to
discuss his role in the Gurmant Grewal taping
affair.
329. Promised that he “will prevent the Prime Minister
from overruling the Ethics Commissioner on
whether the Prime Minister or an official is in
violation of the conflict of interest code” but
admitted he tried to have Ethics Commissioner
replaced.
330. Failed to make all capital gains exempt from
taxation, as long as the funds were reinvested
within a six month period as promised.
331. Broke promise to scrap CAIS” to support farmers
in favour of "transforming it".
332. Rather than ending “the revolving door between
ministers’ offices, the senior public service, and
the lobbying industry” many have queued up to
sway government policy and some were in fact
appointed to Cabinet and other staff and MPs
registered as lobbyists.
333. Broke key Conservative campaign promise to
implement all of the recommendations made by
the information commissioner.
334. Campaigned on an elected Senate then
appointed his election campaign co-chair as a
Senator.
335. Called the GST a tax on a tax and pledged that a
Conservative government would eliminate the
GST on gas entirely if prices escalated above 85
cents per litre.
336. Implemented an Accountability Act that actually
increased government secrecy and made it less
accountable.
337. Promised to have100 per cent of duties paid to
the U.S returned to Canadian softwood lumber
producers but signed with only $4 billion even
leaving the U.S. a $1 billion dollar tip.
338. Misled the public on their plans to arm Canada’s
border guards and refused to discuss costs while
trying to bypass scrutiny of the House of
Commons Public Safety Committee.
339. Broke promise to publish all government public
opinion research within six months of a project’s
completion and charged partisan polls to public
expense through the Privy Council Office.
340. Broke promise to allocate $328 million to
Quebec.
341. Promised to cut income taxes for all Canadians,
but hiked the lowest bracket.
342. Passed a Federal Accountability Act described
as “retrograde and dangerous,” and that broke
21 election promises relating to conflict of
interest and failed to change the Access to
Information Act.
343. Refused a call from Canada’s Chief Electoral
Officer to open the party’s books for a full
independent audit after Prime Minister Stephen
Harper refused to admit that his party had
violated election financing laws.
304. Increased income tax rate for employees and
lowered income tax rate for corporations
305. Cancelled funding for part time non-Christian
prison chaplains exempting full time Christian
prison chaplains.
306. Created an “Office of Religious Freedoms” to
pander to the Christian right.
307. Merged CIDA and the Department of Foreign
Affairs and International Trade.
308. Office of Democratic Governance.
309. Shut down important Coast Guard stations in
BC, Ontario and Nova Scotia.
310. Pulled Canada out of the UN desertification
convention.
311. Blocked the UN indigenous people's rapporteur
from travelling to Canada.
312. Harper government fails Africa on AIDS drugs by
voting down the sale of generic drugs.
313. A $139-million project to fight HIV-AIDS,
launched by PM Stephen Harper in a glitzy
photo-op with Bill Gates canceled.
314. Feds spent nearly $54,000 on pro-oil lobbying
retreat over two days in London, England.
315. Tightened tactics breed dissent in Harper’s
security detail while spending millions on
security.
316. Status of Women drops long-standing raison
d’être, performance targets.
317. Halloween Massacre Income Trust Tax
implemented after promising not to in "Stand Up
For Canada" 2006 Election Platform.
318. Accountability Act only half implemented.
319. John Williamson shouted out “Free at last, free at
last!” celebrating the end of the long gun registry
in Parliament, mocking Martin Luther King Jr.
who was assassinated with a long gun.
320. Peter Mackay referred to his ex-girlfriend Belinda
Stronich as a dog in Parliament after she
crossed the floor to the Liberals.
321. Conservatives shut down Bill C-398 that would
have enabled Canada’s generic drug
manufacturers to provide inexpensive life-saving
medicines to Africans suffering from AIDS and
other curable diseases who can’t afford brandname
medicines.
322. Transport Canada admits to shortage in civil
aviation inspectors.
323. Defence Minister Peter MacKay used a searchand-
rescue helicopter in July 2010 for personal
reasons.
324. Kory Teneycke, moves back and forth between
the PMO and SUN news.
BROKEN PROMISES:
325. Merit based appointment promises ignored in
favour of appointing fundraisers, cronies and
campaigners despite illegal activities.
326. Approached Liberal Minister for key cabinet post
depite 40 Conservative MPs supporting private
members’ bill banning floor crossing without a
by-election.
327. Appointed Gordon O'Conner, former lobbyist for
the defence industry to Min of Defence despite
his party’s Accountability Act, which aimed to
“crack down on the revolving door between
ministers’ offices, the senior public service and
the lobbying industry”.
328. Committed to strengthening the role of the Ethics
Commissioner and preventing the Prime Minister
from overruling the Commissioner’s decisions in
the application of ethics rules, but refused to
discuss his role in the Gurmant Grewal taping
affair.
329. Promised that he “will prevent the Prime Minister
from overruling the Ethics Commissioner on
whether the Prime Minister or an official is in
violation of the conflict of interest code” but
admitted he tried to have Ethics Commissioner
replaced.
330. Failed to make all capital gains exempt from
taxation, as long as the funds were reinvested
within a six month period as promised.
331. Broke promise to scrap CAIS” to support farmers
in favour of "transforming it".
332. Rather than ending “the revolving door between
ministers’ offices, the senior public service, and
the lobbying industry” many have queued up to
sway government policy and some were in fact
appointed to Cabinet and other staff and MPs
registered as lobbyists.
333. Broke key Conservative campaign promise to
implement all of the recommendations made by
the information commissioner.
334. Campaigned on an elected Senate then
appointed his election campaign co-chair as a
Senator.
335. Called the GST a tax on a tax and pledged that a
Conservative government would eliminate the
GST on gas entirely if prices escalated above 85
cents per litre.
336. Implemented an Accountability Act that actually
increased government secrecy and made it less
accountable.
337. Promised to have100 per cent of duties paid to
the U.S returned to Canadian softwood lumber
producers but signed with only $4 billion even
leaving the U.S. a $1 billion dollar tip.
338. Misled the public on their plans to arm Canada’s
border guards and refused to discuss costs while
trying to bypass scrutiny of the House of
Commons Public Safety Committee.
339. Broke promise to publish all government public
opinion research within six months of a project’s
completion and charged partisan polls to public
expense through the Privy Council Office.
340. Broke promise to allocate $328 million to
Quebec.
341. Promised to cut income taxes for all Canadians,
but hiked the lowest bracket.
342. Passed a Federal Accountability Act described
as “retrograde and dangerous,” and that broke
21 election promises relating to conflict of
interest and failed to change the Access to
Information Act.
343. Refused a call from Canada’s Chief Electoral
Officer to open the party’s books for a full
independent audit after Prime Minister Stephen
Harper refused to admit that his party had
violated election financing laws.
344. Broke an election promise to create 125,000 new
child care spaces, while canceling the Liberal
early learning and child care agreements to pay
for a $100-a-month taxable allowance that does
nothing to help families in need of child care and
gives tax money to those who can easily afford
to cover their own costs.
345. Broke an election promise to honour the $6.9-
billion Canada-Ontario agreement.
346. Broke an election promise to immediately
compensate victims of Hepatitis C.
347. Broke an election promise to reverse the Canada
Post decision to close down the Quebec City
mail sorting plant and save 300 jobs from moving
to Montreal.
348. Broke promise to establish a Foreign Credentials
Agency, the abandonment of the work on family
reunification, and a failure to decrease backlogs
in immigration applications.
349. Cut funding to the ACOA despite promise to the
contrary.
350. Vowed to make “merit-based” appointments then
handpicked House of Commons committee
chairs.
INVESTIGATED:
351. Robocalls in Guelph and other areas are being
investigated by Elections Canada.
352. Dean Del Mastro is being investigated for
campaign financing violations.
353. Peter Penashue under investigation for
campaign financing violations.
354. Senator Mike Duffy under investigation for
expense claims.
355. Senator Pamela Wallin under investigation for
expense claims.
356. RCMP raid Conservative Party of Canada
headquarters for evidence regarding in-out
election financing.
357. Jim Flaherty cited by the ethics commissioner for
ethics violation regarding a letter of influence.
358. Ken Boessenkool, former senior policy advisor
and strategist to Prime Minister Stephen
Harper who has lobbied the federal government
on behalf of many corporations and
organizations, such as Enbridge, SNC Lavalin
Nuclear, and Taser International, resigned over
"incident of concern" as BC Premier Christy
Clark's chief of staff.
359. Dimitri Soudas Conservative leader Stephen
Harper’s chief spokesman denies that he
received any kickbacks for allegedly trying to
influence the appointment process at the
Montreal Port Authority.
360. Chuck Cadman bribery affair.
CHARGED:
361. Arthur Porter, appointed by Harper to Chair the
Intelligence Review Committee, was charged in
absentia for his role in fraud involving the
construction of the Montreal Health Sciences
Hospital.
362. Bruce Carson was the prime minister's chief
policy analyst and troubleshooter from 2006 until
2008, after he left the PMO for Calgary, he was
arrested and charged with influence peddling
and the court case is set for July 22, 2013.
363. Irving Gerstein, the head of the Conservative
Fund of Canada and appointed to the Senate
was charged with the in-out election financing
scheme.
364. Doug Finley, the head of the Conservative Party
of Canada and appointed to the Senate was
charged with the in-out election financing
scheme.
365. Michael Sona charged for Guelph robocalls.
366. Patrick Brazeau appointed to the Senate by
Stephen Harper attacked Chief Theresa Spence
in media and then gets arrested for sexual
assault.
CONVICTED:
367. Conservative Party of Canada convicted for
in/out financing fraud.
368. Conservative Fund of Canada convicted for
in/out financing fraud.
ENVIRONMENT:
369. Federal budget cuts undermine Environment
Canada’s mandate to enforce clean air
regulations: emails.
370. Silencing Critics -- Closed the Federally Funded
National Round Table on the Environment and
the Economy (NRTEE).
371. Environment Canada muzzled and scientists
jobs eliminated.
372. Environment Canada withdrawing from Climate
Change Research, Disbanding Ozone Science
Group.
373. G.G. Hatch Lab: isotope and noble gas
geochemistry for Earth and environmental
sciences.
374. Global Environmental Monitoring System.
375. Laboratory for the Analysis of Commercial
Environmental Toxins (LANCET).
376. National Round Table on the Environment and
the Economy.
377. PEARL Polar Environment Atmospheric
Research Laboratory.
378. Harper ordered CRA to audit charities as part of
a witch hunt against environmental groups, and
after $5 million spent, Physicians for Global
Survival (PGS), a group promoting nuclear
disarmament lost their charitable status.
SENIORS:
379. On Tuesday, October 31st, 2006, broke
campaign promise to never tax income trusts
resulting in a $35 billion market loss which
directly hit many retired seniors.
380. OAS raised to 67 from 65.
STEPHEN HARPER’S ATTACK ON CANADA
Last updated November 2013
CIVIL SERVANTS AND GOVERNMENT
OFFICIALS:
1. Chief Supt. Marty Cheliak, Director General
Canada Firearms Program.
2. Adran Measner, President and CEO Canadian
Wheat Board.
3. Dr. Linda Keen, chair Canadian Nuclear Safety
Commission.
4. Richard Colvin, diplomat Foreign Affairs.
5. Earl Turcotte lead negotiator Mine Action and
Small Arms Team, Foreign Affairs.
6. Peter Tinsley head of Military Police Complaints
Commission.
7. Yves Coté Ombudsman for the Department of
National Defence and the Canadian Forces.
8. Kevin Page Parliamentary Budget Officer.
9. Paul Kennedy, chair RCMP Police Complaints
Commission.
10. Rémy Beauregard, President Rights &
Democracy International Centre for Human
Rights and Democratic Development.
11. Munir Sheikh, Deputy Minister, Statistics
Canada.
12. Col. Pat Stogran, Ombudsman,Veterans Affairs.
13. Steve Sullivan, Ombudsman, Victims of Crime.
14. Garth Turner, Member of Parliament, Halton.
15. Edgar Schmidt, Department of Justice sues
government for failing to check if federal laws
violate the Charter of Rights.
16. Adrian Measner, the president of the Canadian
Wheat Board (CWB), is fired by the Harper
government.
17. Harper censors much of Justice Dennis
O'Connor's report on the Mahar Arar affair to
avoid public scrutiny from Canadians and to
protect US security agencies.
18. Bill Casey removed from caucus.
19. Jean-Pierre Kingsley, head of Elections Canada,
resigns his post after confronting the Harper
government over whether it broke the law with its
handling of political donations at 2005 national
convention.
20. Richard Colvin, Canadian diplomat who gained
public attention during the Afghan Detainee
Issue.
SCIENCE:
21. Access to the National Advanced Laser Light
Source (ALLS) facility.
22. Alternatives (Quebec).
23. Aquatron Laboratory.
24. Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre.
25. Banff International Research Station.
26. Biogeoscience Institute.
27. Brockhouse Institute.
28. Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding.
29. Canadian Centre for Innovative Geochronology.
30. Canadian Foundation for Climate and
Atmospheric Research.
31. Canadian Light Source Syncrotron.
32. Canadian Neutron Beam Centre.
33. Canadian Phycological Culture Centre for Algae,
Cyanobacteria and Lemna.
34. Canadian Resource Centre for Zebrafish
Genetics.
35. Canadian Scientific Submersible Facility.
36. Canadian Space Agency - Radarsat
Constellation Mission.
37. Canadian SuperDARN / PolarDARN facility.
38. CanAMS - IsoTrace AMS facility.
39. CCGS Amundsen research icebreaker.
40. Centre for Characterization and Microscopy of
Materials, the (CM)Ç.
41. Centre de Recherches Mathématiques.
42. Centre for Emerging Device Technologies.
43. Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music
Media and Technology (CIRMMT).
44. Centre for Northern Studies.
45. CITA - Canadian Institute for Theoretical
Astrophysics.
46. Department of Fisheries muzzled and jobs
eliminated.
47. Coriolis II - Research vessel.
48. Experimental Lakes Area closed.
49. Félix d'Hérelle Reference Center for Bacterial
Viruses, Université Laval.
50. Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical
Sciences.
51. Graduate students left in the lurch by closure of
world class research facility.
52. Helmholtz Association of German Research
Centres withdraws from Canadian Oilsands
environmental research.
53. Institute for Research In Materials.
54. Institute of Ocean Sciences.
55. Kluane Lake Research Station.
56. National Ultrahigh-Field Nuclear Magnetic
Resonance NMR Facility for Solids.
57. Microfungal Collection and Herbarium.
58. Nanofabrication facility support.
59. NANUC - National High Field Nuclear Magnetic
Resonance Centre.
60. NEPTUNE Canada - ocean floor observatory
network.
61. Neuroendocrinology Assay Lab (NAL) in
Psychology Department of Western University.
62. OIE Reference Laboratory for Infectious Salmon
Anaemia.
63. Pacific Northwest Consortium Synchrotron
Radiation Facility.
64. Parks Canada muzzled and jobs eliminated.
65. PIMS - Pacific Institute for the Mathematical
Sciences.
66. Polar Continental Shelf Program.
67. POLARIS - Portable Observatories for
Lithospheric Analysis and Research
Investigating.
68. POLYNOV - Industrial Scale Polymer
Laboratory, École Polytechnique de Montréal.
69. Quebec / Eastern Canada High Field NMR
Facility.
70. Queen's Facility for Isotope Research, Queen’s
University.
71. Research on toxic accumulation in freshwater --
Institute for Freshwater Science.
72. Research investigating the effects of agricultural
runoff on freshwater.
73. Research on Salmon in Fraser River,
government scientist forbidden to talk about her
findings.
74. Resource for the Innovation of Engineering
Materials.
75. Science Adviser to the Prime Minister position
terminated in 2008 and left vacant.
76. Sierra Club of BC.
77. SNOLAB underground science laboratory
specializing in neutrino and dark matter physics.
78. St Andrews Biological Station studie toxicology
and contaminants for the DFO.
79. Study of beluga whale health and contaminants
in the Arctic.
80. Sudbury Neutrino Observatory.
81. Compute/Calcul Canada (CC), integration of
High Performance Computing (HPC) resources.
82. The Pacific Centre for Isotopic and Geochemical
Research.
83. TRIUMF , national laboratory for particle and
nuclear physics.
84. VENUS Ocean Observatory.
85. Whapmagoostui-Kuujjuarapik Research Station.
CIVIL SERVICE
86. Canada School of Public Service.
WOMEN
87. Eliminated “equality” from the mandate of Status
of Women Canada.
88. Action travail des femmes.
89. Alberta Network of Immigrant Women.
90. Association féminine d'éducation et d'action
sociale (AFEAS).
91. Canadian Research Institute for the
Advancement of Women.
92. Centre de documentation sur l'éducation des
adultes et la condition feminine.
93. Conseil d'intervention pour l'accès des femmes
au travail (CIAFT).
94. Elspeth Heyworth Centre for Women Toronto:
(Funding cut by CIC in December 2010).
95. Feminists for Just and Equitable Public Policy
(FemJEPP) in Nova Scotia.
96. MATCH International, Canadian international
organization for women’s rights and equality.
97. New Brunswick Coalition for Pay Equity.
98. Réseau des Tables régionales de groupes de
femmes du Québec.
99. Riverdale Women's Centre Toronto.
100. South Asian Women's Centre.
101. University of New Brunswick MRI Centre.
102. Womanspace Resource Centre (Lethbridge,
Alberta).
103. Women's Innovative Justice Initiative — Nova
Scotia.
104. Workplace Equity/Employment Equity Program.
105. Federal government cut 39 percent of the
operating budget from Status of Women Canada.
FIRST NATIONS
106. Aboriginal Healing Foundation.
107. Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs lost most of their
funding because they challenged the Harper
Government on Indigenous issues.
108. Funding Agreement changes that blackmail
Chiefs into signing.
109. First Nations and Inuit Tobacco Control Program.
110. First Nations Child and Family Caring Society.
111. First Nations Statistical Institute crown
corporation which bridged gap between
StatsCan and Aboriginal community.
112. Kelowna Accord cancelled after promising the
$5.1 billion agreement would be honoured.
113. Native Women's Association of Canada.
114. Sisters in Spirit.
115. Government changes to National Energy Board
make First Nations' concerns 'Irrelevant'.
116. Surveillance of Aboriginal Communities by INAC
and the RCMP.
117. Pierre Poilievre complained to radio listeners in
Ottawa that the compensation payments for
Residential School abuses were not a helpful
component of the apology.
118. Harper government ties training to welfare for
natives on reserve.
JUSTICE
119. Court Challenges Program cancelled except
language rights and legacy cases.
120. Court Commission of Canada cut.
121. KAIROS, Canadian Ecumenical Justice
Initiatives funding cut.
122. Law Reform Commission of Canada funding cut.
123. National Association of Women and the Law
(NAWL) funding cut.
124. Royal Canadian Mounted Police External Review
Committee.
125. Hid justice department studies on crime.
126. Supreme Court of Canada Harper promised that
new Supreme Court justices would be
questioned by a public parliamentary hearing
and that a free vote held in the House of
Commons, but instead he appointed an ad-hoc
parliamentary committee to question new
appointees.
127. Status of Women Canada mandate changed to
exclude "gender equality and political justice"
and bans all advocacy, policy research and
lobbying.
SOCIAL POLICY AND PROGRAMS
128. Bloor Information and Life Skills Centre funding
cut.
129. Brampton Neighbourhood Services (Ontario)
funding cut.
130. Canada Policy Research Networks funding cut.
131. Canadian Council on Social Development
funding cut.
132. Canadian Heritage Centre for Research and
Information on Canada funding cut.
133. Canadian Labour Business Centre funding cut.
134. Canadian Volunteerism Initiative funding cut.
135. Catholic Organization for Development and
Peace funding cut.
136. Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation
(CERA) funding cut.
137. Community Action Resource Centre (CARC)
funding cut.
138. Davenport-Perth Neighbourhood Centre Toronto:
(Funding cut by CIC in December 2010).
139. Democracy Council funding cut.
140. Inter-Cultural Neighbourhood Social Services
(Peel) funding cut.
141. Marie Stopes International, a maternal health
agency — has received only a promise of
"conditional" funding if it avoids any and all
connection with abortion.
142. Mennonite Central Committee, the Canadian
International Development Agency (CIDA) turned
down MCC’s proposal of $2.9 million over three
years to provide food, water and income
generation assistance for people in developing
countries.
143. Northwood Neighbourhood Services, Toronto,
funding cut by CIC in December 2010.
144. Ontario Association of Interval and Transition
Houses (OAITH).
145. Ontario Association of Transitional Housing
(OAITH).
146. Pride Toronto funding cut.
147. Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council of Canada.
148. Assault on Statistics Canada continues.
149. York South-Weston Community Services Centre
Toronto.
150. 2006 budget cut billions of dollars from social
programs despite Harper having inherited the
strongest financial position of any incoming
government in Canadian history.
CHILDREN AND YOUTH
151. Canadian Child Care Federation.
152. Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada.
153. Child Tax Benefit, Stephen Harper campaigned
to have the child tax benefit increased to $5100
per child, but instead he increased the Child Tax
Credit which will do absolutely nothing for the
poorest children whose families have no taxable
income.
154. Childcare Resource and Research Unit,
Specialink.
155. HRD Youth Employment Programs.
156. Katimavik youth volunteer program, terminated.
157. Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care.
158. Plan Canada.
159. Refugee children can be incarcerated for over a
year.
160. Youth International Internship Program.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
161. Canadian Council for International Cooperation.
162. Canadian International Development Agency,
Office of Democratic Governance.
163. Canadian participation in the International
Continental Drilling Program.
164. Department of Foreign Affairs, Democracy Unit.
165. Forum of Federations.
166. International Planned Parenthood Federation.
167. Canada refused UN Security Council seat.
EDUCATION
168. Canadian Council on Learning.
169. Canadian Teachers' Federation International
program.
170. Climate Action Network.
171. Community Access Program, internet access for
communities at libraries, post offices, community
centres.
172. HRD Adult Learning and Literacy programs.
173. Maurice-Lamontagne Institute's French language
library.
VETERANS
174. Confidential medical files leaked and other low
tactics used in bid to embarrass Veterans who
challenged government.
175. VIP services to the widows of all Second World
War and Korean War veterans cut after
promise to keep it in the party’s Blue Book for all
to see.
176. Watchdog warned government that Veterans not
getting the help they need and was ignored.
177. Veterans went to court to fight for pensions that
had been clawed back. They won. Gov’t
appealed. Veterans won again
178. Wounded Canadian veteran Dennis Manuge
recently won a lawsuit against the federal
government, concerning improperly withheld
disability payments.
IMMIGRANTS
179. Afghan Association of Ontario, funding cut,
Immigrants Settlement and Adaptation Program
(ISAP) terminated.
180. Canadian Arab Federation.
181. Centre for Spanish Speaking Peoples (Toronto).
182. Eritrean Canadian Community Centre of
Metropolitan Toronto (Funding cut by CIC in
December 2010).
183. Hamilton's Settlement and Integration Services
Organization (Ontario).
184. Immigrant settlement programs.
185. Mada Al-Carmel Arab Centre.
186. Tropicana Community Services.
187. Broke an election promise to outdo the Liberal
government on investments in integrating
foreign-trained workers into Canada and actually
invested nine times LESS.
188. Roma and Sri Lankan women and children held
in detention centres.
189. Slashed $20 million set aside to update
Canada’s citizenship laws.
PROVINCES:
190. Harper refuses to meet with Provincial Premiers.
191. Broke his promise to Newfoundland and
Labrador to keep non-renewable energy
resources out of the equalization formula.
192. Reneged on his campaign promise to Quebec to
give the province a place at the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
193. Harper broke his election promise to implement
the Patient Wait Times Guarantee and instead
recycled the Liberals’ $5.5-billion Wait Times
Reduction fund, but downloaded its responsibility
to the provinces and territories without investing
any new money.
194. Harper back-pedaled on a firm commitment to
remove non-renewable resource revenue from
the equalization formula resulting in the loss of
hundreds of millions of dollars for some
provinces.
DEMOCRACY:
195. Harper put a stop to “parliamentary scrum”
where reporters asked questions of the prime
minister everyday in the House of Commons
THE DAY AFTER he first got elected in 2006
with a minority and BEFORE even taking office
and announced that journalists will no longer
have open access to the PM.
196. Does not answer questions during Question
Period.
197. Eliminated Access to Information database.
198. Appointed campaign organizer Michael Fortier to
the Senate so he could sit in Cabinet, after years
of calling for an elected Senate.
199. Alleged that the opposition parties have no right
to form a government as a coalition after
previously arguing for opposition coalitions to
form a government.
200. The Rights and Democracy fiasco.
201. Refusing to acknowledge or celebrate the
Charter.
202. For the first time in our 145 year history,
Parliament Hill was closed to people on Canada
Day 2012.
203. Doesn’t disclose cost of programs and keeps two
sets of books.
204. The Harper government has replaced the label
“government of Canada” with “Harper
government” on all official papers, costing
taxpayer millions of dollars.
205. Defied Parliament's rightful demand for
documents.
206. Padlocked Parliament.
207. Prorogued Parliament three times.
208. Snuffed out democratic challenge to MP Rob
Anders.
209. Barred cabinet staffers from testifying before
committees.
210. Rammed through two record-breaking omnibus
budget bills with almost no opportunity for debate
in Parliament.
211. John Baird misled parliament on real intent of
money spent in Clement’s riding during G8 / G20
summit preparations.
212. Conservative misleading phone calls in Irwin
Cotler’s riding declared “reprehensible” by
Speaker of the House of Commons.
213. Spent over $1 billion on G-8/20 summit.
214. During election campaigns severely limits
reporter’s questions to four per day and obliges
reporters to hand over their questions 24 hours
in advance.
215. Harper brought foreign US advisors during
elections which is against the law.
216. Drastically cutting the CBC funding.
217. Harper knowingly lied when he said the F35s
contract was signed.
218. Blocked the Auditor General`s report from being
released until AFTER the 2011 election.
219. Irwin Cotler riding robocalled with misleading
calls.
220. All committees are now “in camera”.
221. Always holds “photo ops” instead of press
conferences between elections.
ABUSES OF POWER:
222. Appointed failed election candidates to Senate.
223. Scrapped the Canada Wheat Board in a move
that the Federal Court of Canada cited as
“disregard for the rule of law.”
224. Spends $20 million per year riding in motorcade
from PM residence to Parliament when previous
Prime Ministers walked.
225. Attempted to pass Internet Surveillance Bill.
226. G-20 mass arrests.
227. Harper government is suing the Auditor General
of Canada to avoid audits.
228. Gave the CIA and the FBI the right to arrest
Canadians ON CANADIAN SOIL.
229. Made it illegal to wear a face covering during an
assembly.
230. The Canada-China investment treaty that Harper
QUIETLY tabled allows for confidential lawsuits
against Canada.
231. Constantly invoking “closure” in committees and
on debates in the parliament.
232. Makes major announcement on foreign trips and
on Friday afternoons, before long weekends and
holidays.
233. Used the Vancouver 2010 Olympics for
Conservative Party propaganda.
234. Redacts documents ordered by parliament citing
“national security”.
235. 2008 Election Fraud in the riding of Saanitch-
Gulf Islands.
236. 2011 wide-spread Election Fraud in 234 ridings.
237. Created an office for monitoring online activity to
“correct misinformation”.
238. In-and-out money shuffle resulting in convictions
of CPC and CFC.
239. David Emerson enticed to cross floor and
appointed to Cabinet.
240. Vetting system.
241. Unelected Senator named to cabinet.
242. Harper stopped book talk by Environment
Canada scientist Mark Tushingham who wrote a
science fiction novel called Hotter than Hell.
243. NAFTA-gate.
244. Afghan detainees misinformation campaign.
245. Accountability measures reversed on half
promised.
246. Published a secret committee obstruction
handbook.
247. Attack ads launched between elections.
248. Attacked Opposition for not supporting the
troops.
249. Tom Flanagan book, “Harper’s Team” censored.
250. Elections Canada attacked.
251. McGuinty attacked as the small man of
Confederation.
252. Ontario declared the last place to invest.
253. Ordered police to remove journalists from a hotel
lobby to prevent coverage of a Tory caucus
meeting.
254. Labelled Louise Arbour a national disgrace.
255. Attempted to discipline an academic for
criticizing the government.
256. Made a bid to vet even the press releases of the
auditor general.
257. Scripted Conservative supporters' calls to radio
talk jocks.
258. Blocked information on cabinet ministers' use of
government jets.
259. Belittled arts gala-goers as “elitists”.
260. Released an online attack ad featuring a bird
defacating on Stéphane Dion’s head.
261. Plagiarized the Australian prime minister's
speech.
262. Hid an RCMP firearms report to prevent
embarrassment on cancelling the gun registry.
263. Downgraded Diane Ablonczy for her support of
gay pride week in Toronto.
264. Smeared TD Bank executive Ed Clark as a
Liberal hack for his statement on the deficit.
265. Stripped political parties of public funding.
266. Declared Brian Mulroney persona non grata.
267. Slashed the budget of the Parliamentary Budget
Officer.
268. Put Conservative logos on government cheques
for stimulus funding.
269. Withheld details of stimulus funding.
270. Granted stimulus funding disproportionately to
Conservative ridings.
271. The move on Statistics Canada.
272. Mr. Harper's became the first prime minister in
history to be found in contempt of parliament.
273. Tony Clement was caught using $50-million in
taxpayer monies - supposedly intended for
border infrastructure - for a political slush fund.
274. Public servants compelled to take on political
roles in fake Citizenship dog and pony show.
275. Bev Oda altered document with hand written
“NO” to decline KAIROS funding.
276. Citizens hauled out of Harper election campaign
rallies for having marginal ties to other parties.
277. Bogus photos leaked by Tory operatives in
campaign in bid to incriminate Michael Ignatieff
as Iraqi war planner.
278. Integrity Commissioner (as per AG report) found
to have whitewashed virtually every
whistleblowing complaint (about 220) that came
before her.
279. Bid to extend state controls by Toews to internet
surveillance.
280. Guilty verdict against top Conservatives on
reduced charges in In and Out affair.
281. Government caught lying by Canadian Press in
trying to deny insistence on “Harper
Government” labelling.
282. Increased in-camera sequestration of
parliamentary committee meetings away from
public and media.
283. Muzzling of scientists.
284. Decree stipulating staffers to cabinet ministers
no longer have to testify before committees.
285. Moves afoot to shield cabinet minister offices
from access to information laws.
286. Opposition members denied accreditation to
Durban climate-change summit then castigated
in Commons by government for not being there.
287. Funding religious groups who support Uganda
death penalty for gays.
288. Harper hired David Johnston to set the terms of
an inquiry after a Parliamentary committee
turned up envelopes of cash passed to Mulroney
in a hotel room, then appointed Johnston
Governor General.
289. Harper Government building $9 million barricade
for Parliament Hill.
290. Robocalls directing non-Conservative electors to
the wrong polling stations and harassing people
at odd hours.
291. Cancelling Garth Turner’s CPC membership for
criticizing David Emerson floor crossing and
keeping a blog.
292. Approved sale of NEXEN to CNOOC and then
changed the rules.
293. China FIPPA pending, locking Canada into 31
years of potential secret tribunals and loss of
sovereignty.
294. Stephen Harper secretly met China’s Minister of
Propaganda in Ottawa.
295. Plastering ridings with tax payer funded 10%er
flyers organized by a central committee.
296. Cut funding to the Canadian Food Inspection
Agency resulting in Listeriosis outbreak at Maple
Leaf Food and E-Coli outbreak at XL Foods.
297. Plan to merge Government of Canada websites
in an effort to cut off access to information.
Information from individual departments and
agencies has been disappearing.
298. 2012 omnibus budget bills that removes
protection from most water ways and lakes in
Canada.
299. Stephen Harper's Conservatives are compiling
and using detailed files of personal information
about Canadians with data from public, semipublic,
and possibly private sources for the
Conservative Party of Canada’s Constituency
Information Management System (CIMS).
300. SNC-Lavalin staff donated $15K to Conservative
nominee and executive involved in web of
corruption resulting in the arrest of the CEO. Two
key Conservatives were board members.
301. Conservative MPs used U.S.-based telemarketer
calls masked to hide Ohio origins contravening
law.
302. Didn’t deposit a balanced budget since 2009.
303. Added $150 billion to Canada’s debt.
304. Increased income tax rate for employees and
lowered income tax rate for corporations
305. Cancelled funding for part time non-Christian
prison chaplains exempting full time Christian
prison chaplains.
306. Created an “Office of Religious Freedoms” to
pander to the Christian right.
307. Merged CIDA and the Department of Foreign
Affairs and International Trade.
308. Office of Democratic Governance.
309. Shut down important Coast Guard stations in
BC, Ontario and Nova Scotia.
310. Pulled Canada out of the UN desertification
convention.
311. Blocked the UN indigenous people's rapporteur
from travelling to Canada.
312. Harper government fails Africa on AIDS drugs by
voting down the sale of generic drugs.
313. A $139-million project to fight HIV-AIDS,
launched by PM Stephen Harper in a glitzy
photo-op with Bill Gates canceled.
314. Feds spent nearly $54,000 on pro-oil lobbying
retreat over two days in London, England.
315. Tightened tactics breed dissent in Harper’s
security detail while spending millions on
security.
316. Status of Women drops long-standing raison
d’être, performance targets.
317. Halloween Massacre Income Trust Tax
implemented after promising not to in "Stand Up
For Canada" 2006 Election Platform.
318. Accountability Act only half implemented.
319. John Williamson shouted out “Free at last, free at
last!” celebrating the end of the long gun registry
in Parliament, mocking Martin Luther King Jr.
who was assassinated with a long gun.
320. Peter Mackay referred to his ex-girlfriend Belinda
Stronich as a dog in Parliament after she
crossed the floor to the Liberals.
321. Conservatives shut down Bill C-398 that would
have enabled Canada’s generic drug
manufacturers to provide inexpensive life-saving
medicines to Africans suffering from AIDS and
other curable diseases who can’t afford brandname
medicines.
322. Transport Canada admits to shortage in civil
aviation inspectors.
323. Defence Minister Peter MacKay used a searchand-
rescue helicopter in July 2010 for personal
reasons.
324. Kory Teneycke, moves back and forth between
the PMO and SUN news.
BROKEN PROMISES:
325. Merit based appointment promises ignored in
favour of appointing fundraisers, cronies and
campaigners despite illegal activities.
326. Approached Liberal Minister for key cabinet post
depite 40 Conservative MPs supporting private
members’ bill banning floor crossing without a
by-election.
327. Appointed Gordon O'Conner, former lobbyist for
the defence industry to Min of Defence despite
his party’s Accountability Act, which aimed to
“crack down on the revolving door between
ministers’ offices, the senior public service and
the lobbying industry”.
328. Committed to strengthening the role of the Ethics
Commissioner and preventing the Prime Minister
from overruling the Commissioner’s decisions in
the application of ethics rules, but refused to
discuss his role in the Gurmant Grewal taping
affair.
329. Promised that he “will prevent the Prime Minister
from overruling the Ethics Commissioner on
whether the Prime Minister or an official is in
violation of the conflict of interest code” but
admitted he tried to have Ethics Commissioner
replaced.
330. Failed to make all capital gains exempt from
taxation, as long as the funds were reinvested
within a six month period as promised.
331. Broke promise to scrap CAIS” to support farmers
in favour of "transforming it".
332. Rather than ending “the revolving door between
ministers’ offices, the senior public service, and
the lobbying industry” many have queued up to
sway government policy and some were in fact
appointed to Cabinet and other staff and MPs
registered as lobbyists.
333. Broke key Conservative campaign promise to
implement all of the recommendations made by
the information commissioner.
334. Campaigned on an elected Senate then
appointed his election campaign co-chair as a
Senator.
335. Called the GST a tax on a tax and pledged that a
Conservative government would eliminate the
GST on gas entirely if prices escalated above 85
cents per litre.
336. Implemented an Accountability Act that actually
increased government secrecy and made it less
accountable.
337. Promised to have100 per cent of duties paid to
the U.S returned to Canadian softwood lumber
producers but signed with only $4 billion even
leaving the U.S. a $1 billion dollar tip.
338. Misled the public on their plans to arm Canada’s
border guards and refused to discuss costs while
trying to bypass scrutiny of the House of
Commons Public Safety Committee.
339. Broke promise to publish all government public
opinion research within six months of a project’s
completion and charged partisan polls to public
expense through the Privy Council Office.
340. Broke promise to allocate $328 million to
Quebec.
341. Promised to cut income taxes for all Canadians,
but hiked the lowest bracket.
342. Passed a Federal Accountability Act described
as “retrograde and dangerous,” and that broke
21 election promises relating to conflict of
interest and failed to change the Access to
Information Act.
343. Refused a call from Canada’s Chief Electoral
Officer to open the party’s books for a full
independent audit after Prime Minister Stephen
Harper refused to admit that his party had
violated election financing laws.
304. Increased income tax rate for employees and
lowered income tax rate for corporations
305. Cancelled funding for part time non-Christian
prison chaplains exempting full time Christian
prison chaplains.
306. Created an “Office of Religious Freedoms” to
pander to the Christian right.
307. Merged CIDA and the Department of Foreign
Affairs and International Trade.
308. Office of Democratic Governance.
309. Shut down important Coast Guard stations in
BC, Ontario and Nova Scotia.
310. Pulled Canada out of the UN desertification
convention.
311. Blocked the UN indigenous people's rapporteur
from travelling to Canada.
312. Harper government fails Africa on AIDS drugs by
voting down the sale of generic drugs.
313. A $139-million project to fight HIV-AIDS,
launched by PM Stephen Harper in a glitzy
photo-op with Bill Gates canceled.
314. Feds spent nearly $54,000 on pro-oil lobbying
retreat over two days in London, England.
315. Tightened tactics breed dissent in Harper’s
security detail while spending millions on
security.
316. Status of Women drops long-standing raison
d’être, performance targets.
317. Halloween Massacre Income Trust Tax
implemented after promising not to in "Stand Up
For Canada" 2006 Election Platform.
318. Accountability Act only half implemented.
319. John Williamson shouted out “Free at last, free at
last!” celebrating the end of the long gun registry
in Parliament, mocking Martin Luther King Jr.
who was assassinated with a long gun.
320. Peter Mackay referred to his ex-girlfriend Belinda
Stronich as a dog in Parliament after she
crossed the floor to the Liberals.
321. Conservatives shut down Bill C-398 that would
have enabled Canada’s generic drug
manufacturers to provide inexpensive life-saving
medicines to Africans suffering from AIDS and
other curable diseases who can’t afford brandname
medicines.
322. Transport Canada admits to shortage in civil
aviation inspectors.
323. Defence Minister Peter MacKay used a searchand-
rescue helicopter in July 2010 for personal
reasons.
324. Kory Teneycke, moves back and forth between
the PMO and SUN news.
BROKEN PROMISES:
325. Merit based appointment promises ignored in
favour of appointing fundraisers, cronies and
campaigners despite illegal activities.
326. Approached Liberal Minister for key cabinet post
depite 40 Conservative MPs supporting private
members’ bill banning floor crossing without a
by-election.
327. Appointed Gordon O'Conner, former lobbyist for
the defence industry to Min of Defence despite
his party’s Accountability Act, which aimed to
“crack down on the revolving door between
ministers’ offices, the senior public service and
the lobbying industry”.
328. Committed to strengthening the role of the Ethics
Commissioner and preventing the Prime Minister
from overruling the Commissioner’s decisions in
the application of ethics rules, but refused to
discuss his role in the Gurmant Grewal taping
affair.
329. Promised that he “will prevent the Prime Minister
from overruling the Ethics Commissioner on
whether the Prime Minister or an official is in
violation of the conflict of interest code” but
admitted he tried to have Ethics Commissioner
replaced.
330. Failed to make all capital gains exempt from
taxation, as long as the funds were reinvested
within a six month period as promised.
331. Broke promise to scrap CAIS” to support farmers
in favour of "transforming it".
332. Rather than ending “the revolving door between
ministers’ offices, the senior public service, and
the lobbying industry” many have queued up to
sway government policy and some were in fact
appointed to Cabinet and other staff and MPs
registered as lobbyists.
333. Broke key Conservative campaign promise to
implement all of the recommendations made by
the information commissioner.
334. Campaigned on an elected Senate then
appointed his election campaign co-chair as a
Senator.
335. Called the GST a tax on a tax and pledged that a
Conservative government would eliminate the
GST on gas entirely if prices escalated above 85
cents per litre.
336. Implemented an Accountability Act that actually
increased government secrecy and made it less
accountable.
337. Promised to have100 per cent of duties paid to
the U.S returned to Canadian softwood lumber
producers but signed with only $4 billion even
leaving the U.S. a $1 billion dollar tip.
338. Misled the public on their plans to arm Canada’s
border guards and refused to discuss costs while
trying to bypass scrutiny of the House of
Commons Public Safety Committee.
339. Broke promise to publish all government public
opinion research within six months of a project’s
completion and charged partisan polls to public
expense through the Privy Council Office.
340. Broke promise to allocate $328 million to
Quebec.
341. Promised to cut income taxes for all Canadians,
but hiked the lowest bracket.
342. Passed a Federal Accountability Act described
as “retrograde and dangerous,” and that broke
21 election promises relating to conflict of
interest and failed to change the Access to
Information Act.
343. Refused a call from Canada’s Chief Electoral
Officer to open the party’s books for a full
independent audit after Prime Minister Stephen
Harper refused to admit that his party had
violated election financing laws.
344. Broke an election promise to create 125,000 new
child care spaces, while canceling the Liberal
early learning and child care agreements to pay
for a $100-a-month taxable allowance that does
nothing to help families in need of child care and
gives tax money to those who can easily afford
to cover their own costs.
345. Broke an election promise to honour the $6.9-
billion Canada-Ontario agreement.
346. Broke an election promise to immediately
compensate victims of Hepatitis C.
347. Broke an election promise to reverse the Canada
Post decision to close down the Quebec City
mail sorting plant and save 300 jobs from moving
to Montreal.
348. Broke promise to establish a Foreign Credentials
Agency, the abandonment of the work on family
reunification, and a failure to decrease backlogs
in immigration applications.
349. Cut funding to the ACOA despite promise to the
contrary.
350. Vowed to make “merit-based” appointments then
handpicked House of Commons committee
chairs.
INVESTIGATED:
351. Robocalls in Guelph and other areas are being
investigated by Elections Canada.
352. Dean Del Mastro is being investigated for
campaign financing violations.
353. Peter Penashue under investigation for
campaign financing violations.
354. Senator Mike Duffy under investigation for
expense claims.
355. Senator Pamela Wallin under investigation for
expense claims.
356. RCMP raid Conservative Party of Canada
headquarters for evidence regarding in-out
election financing.
357. Jim Flaherty cited by the ethics commissioner for
ethics violation regarding a letter of influence.
358. Ken Boessenkool, former senior policy advisor
and strategist to Prime Minister Stephen
Harper who has lobbied the federal government
on behalf of many corporations and
organizations, such as Enbridge, SNC Lavalin
Nuclear, and Taser International, resigned over
"incident of concern" as BC Premier Christy
Clark's chief of staff.
359. Dimitri Soudas Conservative leader Stephen
Harper’s chief spokesman denies that he
received any kickbacks for allegedly trying to
influence the appointment process at the
Montreal Port Authority.
360. Chuck Cadman bribery affair.
CHARGED:
361. Arthur Porter, appointed by Harper to Chair the
Intelligence Review Committee, was charged in
absentia for his role in fraud involving the
construction of the Montreal Health Sciences
Hospital.
362. Bruce Carson was the prime minister's chief
policy analyst and troubleshooter from 2006 until
2008, after he left the PMO for Calgary, he was
arrested and charged with influence peddling
and the court case is set for July 22, 2013.
363. Irving Gerstein, the head of the Conservative
Fund of Canada and appointed to the Senate
was charged with the in-out election financing
scheme.
364. Doug Finley, the head of the Conservative Party
of Canada and appointed to the Senate was
charged with the in-out election financing
scheme.
365. Michael Sona charged for Guelph robocalls.
366. Patrick Brazeau appointed to the Senate by
Stephen Harper attacked Chief Theresa Spence
in media and then gets arrested for sexual
assault.
CONVICTED:
367. Conservative Party of Canada convicted for
in/out financing fraud.
368. Conservative Fund of Canada convicted for
in/out financing fraud.
ENVIRONMENT:
369. Federal budget cuts undermine Environment
Canada’s mandate to enforce clean air
regulations: emails.
370. Silencing Critics -- Closed the Federally Funded
National Round Table on the Environment and
the Economy (NRTEE).
371. Environment Canada muzzled and scientists
jobs eliminated.
372. Environment Canada withdrawing from Climate
Change Research, Disbanding Ozone Science
Group.
373. G.G. Hatch Lab: isotope and noble gas
geochemistry for Earth and environmental
sciences.
374. Global Environmental Monitoring System.
375. Laboratory for the Analysis of Commercial
Environmental Toxins (LANCET).
376. National Round Table on the Environment and
the Economy.
377. PEARL Polar Environment Atmospheric
Research Laboratory.
378. Harper ordered CRA to audit charities as part of
a witch hunt against environmental groups, and
after $5 million spent, Physicians for Global
Survival (PGS), a group promoting nuclear
disarmament lost their charitable status.
SENIORS:
379. On Tuesday, October 31st, 2006, broke
campaign promise to never tax income trusts
resulting in a $35 billion market loss which
directly hit many retired seniors.
380. OAS raised to 67 from 65.
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