Reasons NOT to vote Harper:
- Electoral fraud in 2011 and involved in irregularities in elections in both 2006 and 2008.
- Contempt of parliament
- Multiple prorogations of parliament to avoid confidence motions
- More than 150 billion dollars of debt
- Eight straight deficits
- C-51.
- Cut 36 billion from health care
- Northern Gateway approved despite an ongoing court case with First Nations and an illegitimate environmental review.
- Anti-democratic omnibus "budget" bills (such as C-38 and C-45)
that were more meant to gut environmental legislation than take care of
financial matters.
- The “Fair Elections Act” which makes it harder for traditional non-Harper voters to cast ballots.
- Bill C-24, which created two-tiered citizenship for Canadians
- Sabotaged international climate negotiations and failed to meaningfully reduce Canada's emissions
- Clandestine trade deals such as FIPA with China, and CETA with Europe
- Attacked the CBC and stacked its board with Conservative donors, basically defunded the CBC.
- Went after a disproportionate number of environmental and social justice charities
- Gagged and fired government scientists in the area of climate science
- The Senate scandal(Duffy, Meredith, Brazeau and others)
- Handling of the F-35 situation
- Eliminated the long form census
- Spent more than $750 million dollars on advocacy advertising for
such things as "Canada's Economic Action Plan", including promoting
legislation not yet passed in parliament
- Ongoing sales of arms to the Saudis, one of the most repressive regimes in the world
- Cancelled the Kelowna Accord and has shown complete contempt for working with Native People.
- Continued to slash foreign aid and merged the Canadian International Development Agency with the Department of Foreign Affairs.
- Sold the Canadian Wheat Board to the Saudis
- Increased spending on prisons despite a forty year low in crime.
- Closed down Veterans offices
- War with ISIS.
- Withdrew from virtually every international treaty we were part of
- Lost out on a seat on the UN Security Council
- Spent a billion dollars on the G8/G20 summit.
- Unconditional support for Israel and possible hate crime charges for criticizing Israeli foreign policy
- Refused to participate in nationally televised leaders debates.
- Removed the per-vote subsidy to stack elections odds in Conservatives favour.
- Shut down debate in parliament more than a hundred times
- Closed coast guard stations 36. Ended Canada Post delivery in urban areas.
- The Omar Khadr situation
- Weakened pesticide regulations
- Fired Linda Keen for reporting an unsafe nuclear reactor
- Refused to sign the UN declaration on water being a human right, and UN declaration on rights of indigenous people.
- Reneged on promise to stop billions in oil subsidies
- The only country who withdrew from the Kyoto Protocol
- Elimination of the long gun registry, and retroactively rewrote gun registry to avoid RCMP charges
- Broke the Atlantic Accord
- Passed C-36, a law that will likely put women involved in the sex trade at greater risk.
- Cancelled the home energy retrofit program.
- Income splitting implemented, despite only helping 15% of the population.
- Cutbacks to food inspection services.
- Dean Del Mastro, Bruce Carson, Bev Oda, Chuck Cadman, Arthur Porter
- Repeatedly being in violation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and fighting with Supreme Court
- Kept marijuana illegal and campaigned on the idea that marijuana
is more harmful than tobacco, which keeps the substance more accessible
to children, unregulated, puts money in the hands of organized crime,
and uses prohibition to predominantly target poor people and black
communities.
- Removed protection from Canada's lakes and rivers, from 2.5 million bodies of water down to only 159.
- Campaigned on a platform of racism and xenophobia.
- Historically has built his political career on racism, from
supporting apartheid in South Africa, to trying to ban turbans for RCMP
officers, and now targeting muslims using dog-whistle politics.
- Wants Canadians to spy and report on their neighbours, reminiscent of totalitarian regimes.
- Associates with Rob Ford as a selling point for his government.
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