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Since taking over as Prime Minister Stephen Harper has waged a non-stop attack on Canada and everything Canadians value. He has repeatedly assaulted Canada's natural environment
http://thetyee.ca/Views/2006/01/20/HardOnNature/
right down to allowing Canadian lakes to be used as toxic dump sites at no cost to polluters.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/06/16/condemned-lakes.html
http://www.publicbroadcasting.ca/election/environment.hmtl
Although he promised open accountable government, Harper has lead one of the most secretive, authoritarian governments in Canadian history.
http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/ccs/nav03.cfm?nav03=48215&nav02=44994&nav...
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/politics/story.html?id=cf2b9830-7185-4...
http://www.harperindex.ca/ViewArticle.cfm?Ref=00147
And while he was elected in part due to corruption on the part of the Liberals, Harper has lead one of the most deeply corrupt governments in recent memory.
From the in-out scheme
http://www.westislandchronicle.com/article-238214-Conservatives-Great-El...
to the Cadman affair
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=1c459ecb-8780-4...
and beyond
http://www.ndp.ca/scandalsheet
http://scandalpedia.ca/Scandals.html
He has waged a relentless assault on the arts from attempts to kill the Canadian film industry
http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/02/29/kill-bill-c-10-opposition-to-f...
To a copyright bill that is good for big media companies but bad for artists and that would make most Canadians into criminals
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/06/12/tech-copyright.html
to his rejection of a Heritage Committee recommendation that would have strengthened and improved the CBC
http://www.insidethecbc.com/fed-govt-will-not-endorse-heritage-committee...
and most recently his cuts to export subsidies for the arts
http://viewoncanadianart.com/2008/08/15/voca-loathescuts-to-arts-funding...
He has been no friend to Canadian cities
http://thetyee.ca/News/2007/01/25/Cities/
http://www.thestar.com/article/275075
He scrapped a child care plan years in the making and replaced it with a much weaker, watered down credit
http://thetyee.ca/Views/2006/05/05/MommyWars/
He has done his best to erode women's rights
http://www.straight.com/article/women-kick-harpers-ass
Including cutting off funding to groups that lobby for womens rights
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006/10/04/tory-funding.html
and closing "Status of Women" offices
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006/11/29/status-women.html
Harper almost, at one point, had a backbone - placing the U.S. and Israel on a 'Torture Watch List' - which is a list of countries where prisoners risk being tortured.
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/18/6454/
But Harper's spine quickly gave way when the US and Israel were upset, though they presented no counter evidence.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/946065.html
He has bungled the economy (one of the few areas the Tories are supposed to be good at)
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/293735
There have also been cuts to adult literacy, youth employment and internship programs, Indian Affairs, technology development, citizenship and immigration, apparel and textiles, workplace skills training, the National Crime Prevention Centre, Social Development Partnership Programs, the mountain pine beetle program, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, the Canadian Volunteerism Initiative, Health Canada's policy research, the elimination of the Canadian Identity Program, cuts to the RCMP impaired driving program, the Museums Assistance Program, the Closing of Commercial Heritage Property Incentive Fund run by Parks Canada
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/parliament39/budgetcuts-list.html
and despite cuts to almost everything Canadians care about, may soon take us back into deficits
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080114/deficit_cal...
He reneged on his promise not to tax income trusts, costing many small investors - including retirees small fortunes, because Harper had promised not to tax these trusts many were buying them until days before his announcement.
http://www.caiti.info/lies.php
Finally he has done considerable damage to Canada's reputation abroad. From refusing to attend the world aids conference
http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_2709.aspx
to insulting the Chinese people (and Canadian athletes) by his absence from the opening ceremonies
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=c7894f8d-2b11-4...
His administration has interfered in foreign elections by leaking private information
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080306.wnafta07/BNS...
and left classified documents with girlfriends
http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/story.html?id=af83407f-4678-...
They have also damaged Canada's reputation as a refuge from wars and war crimes by deporting asylum seekers.
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/08/21/18528416.php
And allowed big business to rewrite immigration policy
http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article/235929858-crosscountry-mobilizing-aga...

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