Canada Quotations

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We are looking for a more timely and predictable processes for issuing permits for projects, but we are not lowering the standards of any of environmental protection requirements.
~ Dan Albas (born: 1976-12-01 age: 35) Conservative Member of Parliament
This is a preposterous lie. If it were true, there would be least one environmentalist is Canada supporting it.

No proposition could be more decisively or clearly consistently established than this, that the Indians (not being enfranchised) had no rights to the land, other than occupation at the will of the Crown.
~ Judge Matthew Baillie Begbie (born: 1819-05-09 died: 1894-06-11 at age: 75) Chief Justice of British Columbia, aka the hanging judge.
To my city, Victoria’s shame, we have a street named after this racist bastard, as does Vancouver, New Westminster, Nanaimo and Kelowna.

[Global warming is] a scientific hypothesis and a controversial one.
~ Stephen Harper (born: 1959-04-30 age: 53) anti-environmental Prime Minister of Canada, Toronto Star, 2002-09-05
Global warming by greenhouse gases was discovered in 1824. There was some controversy about where the CO₂ was coming from, but that was ago settled because we have good records of all the fuel we burn.

[Kyoto] is designed to address the so-called “greenhouse gas” phenomenon, the hypothesis that the increase of certain gases — not necessarily pollutants — contribute to a long-term global warming trend.
~ Stephen Harper (born: 1959-04-30 age: 53) anti-environmental Prime Minister of Canada, Address at the Ottawa Leader’s Dinner, 2002-11-20
The phenomenon has been called the greenhouse gas effect since Fourier discovered it in 1824. Harper tries to imply the name is illegitimate in some way. He further lies, calling In ahypothesis. It is a measured fact. The effect is hardly controversial or new. Harper is just trying the pretend there is doubt where there is none.

[The Kyoto Accord is] a socialist scheme to suck money out of wealth-producing nations… [The Accord is] based on tentative and contradictory scientific evidence about climate trends.
~ Stephen Harper (born: 1959-04-30 age: 53) anti-environmental Prime Minister of Canada, Canadian Alliance fundraising letter, 2002 fall
Harper has lied about global warming so many times, I think he truly believes it himself. There is no controversy among scientists. There is unanimous consensus that global warming is real and a major threat, with a handful of hold-out shills and people without credentials who are funded by the oil companies. Harper of course gets all his information from big oil, who continue to pump out FUD (Fear Uncertainty and Doubt) . If you have any doubt, just peruse some peer reviewed scientific journals or read about the Naomi Oreskes survey.

As economic policy, the Kyoto Accord is a disaster. As environmental policy it is a fraud.
~ Stephen Harper (born: 1959-04-30 age: 53) anti-environmental Prime Minister of Canada, Address at the Ottawa Leader’s Dinner, 2002-11-20
Harper is fixated on the costs of implementing Kyoto, estimated as high as 1% of GDP (Gross Domestic Product). However, he refuses to consider the costs of not implementing Kyoto which the famous economist Nicholas Stern estimated at 5 to 20% of GDP. Harper also refuses to consider the economic benefits of implementing Kyoto in energy saving, and the benefits of marketing Canadian green technology to other countries.

As the effects trickle through other industries, workers and consumers everywhere in Canada will lose. There are no Canadian winners under the Kyoto accord.
~ Stephen Harper (born: 1959-04-30 age: 53) anti-environmental Prime Minister of Canada, Canadian Alliance fundraising letter, 2002 fall
Given that doing nothing about global warming will lead to the deaths of billions of people and economic damage that makes a 30s style depression look like a picnic, I’d say there are no losers if you implement Kyoto.

Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status.
~ Stephen Harper (born: 1959-04-30 age: 53) National Post 2000-12-08
Harper’s measures the status of a country by the size of its military. No wonder Harper fawned over Bush like a female teenage Beatle fan.

Canada must be a courageous warrior.
~ Stephen Harper (born: 1959-04-30 age: 53) in a campaign ad aired on 2011-04-30
This is Harper’s mad desire to emulate Napoléon . Canada traditionally wants to do peacekeeping not wage wars of empire.

Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took [to stay out of the Iraq war].
~ Stephen Harper (born: 1959-04-30 age: 53)

Canada’s implementation will not lead to global reductions of CO₂ . In fact the transfer of wealth, jobs and emissions to non-target countries virtually ensures that carbon dioxide emissions will increase under the Kyoto Protocol.
~ Stephen Harper (born: 1959-04-30 age: 53) anti-environmental Prime Minister of Canada, Address at the Ottawa Leader’s Dinner, 2002-11-20
That makes no sense. If Canada reduces its emissions, the global emissions will still be lower than if Canada had done nothing. Canada can’t very well chide other nations for failure to act until it has done its promised bit. Harper is like a guy who never cuts his lawn but runs around the neighbourhood with a bullhorn calling others deadbeats for imperfections in their lawns. You must lead by example.

Carbon dioxide does not cause or contribute to smog, and the Kyoto treaty would do nothing to reduce or prevent smog.
~ Stephen Harper (born: 1959-04-30 age: 53) anti-environmental Prime Minister of Canada, Toronto Star,2004-06-10
Yes, and Kyoto won’t do anything to help acne either. That is not what it is for.

Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant.
~ Stephen Harper (born: 1959-04-30 age: 53) anti-environmental Prime Minister of Canada, Hansard, 2002-10-11
That is like saying Kyoto does not help catch more cod. There is no reason to think it should. If you are the government, you can define pollutant to mean anything you please, but that does not change the fact that excess CO₂ in the atmosphere has extreme lethal consequences. The function of a SCUBA (Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus) rebreather is two-fold, to provide oxygen and to remove CO₂ which becomes fatal above 4%. It is not an inert gas like nitrogen or helium. Mr. Harper, I invite you to put a bag over your head and see if you don’t die from CO₂ poisoning to prove it is harmless. But even that is irrelevant. Excess CO₂ in the atmosphere causes lethal climate changes. 1/5 of all mammals are expected to go extinct soon. Are you not in the least curious? Instead of asking lobbyists in the oil industry, ask some qualified scientists who can give you a straight answer. You are like a miner with cageful of dead canaries and no curiosity.

Carbon dioxide which is a naturally occurring gas vital to the life cycles of this planet. Smog is an entirely different issue is not covered by this treaty.
~ Stephen Harper (born: 1959-04-30 age: 53) anti-environmental Prime Minister of Canada, Rafe Mair Show, CKNW Radio Vancouver, 2002-11-29
Harper’s comment betrays an attempt to snow or his abysmal ignorance. CO₂ acts as a chemical global thermostat. It’s a Goldilocks problem. Too little CO₂ and you get an ice age. Too much and you sear the planet. It has to be just right. We have inadvertently jacked the planet’s thermostat way way up to unprecedented levels. It is up to us to rectify the problem that we have created for the entire planet.

I don’t think we should consider signing on to a deal that makes us virtually the sole country in the world that is going to take any action.
~ Stephen Harper (born: 1959-04-30 age: 53) anti-environmental Prime Minister of Canada, Toronto Star, 2002-09-05
Harper has it backwards. Canada is one of the few deadbeat countries which includes the other two biggest polluters Australia and the USA. The Europeans met their Kyoto targets.

illegitimate, undemocratic, crazy
~ Stephen Harper (born: 1959-04-30 age: 53)
That is how Harper characterises a potential coalition between the Liberals and NDP (New Democratic Party). Harper himself forged a coalition between the Reform Party and the Conservatives. Was that illegitimate? He also proposed a coalition between the Conservatives and the Bloc Québécios. Was that crazy? A coalition is perfectly legitimate. Britain, the creator of our system of government is currently ruled by a coalition. It is completely democratic. If the Liberals and NDP together have more support than the Conservatives, it makes sense they should be dictating policy, not a minority of right wing, anti-environmental, pro-war, plutocratic Harperite fruitcakes.

Kyoto does virtually nothing to deal with pollution and to deal with the quality of the air that we breathe. Let’s forget about this unworkable treaty… Kyoto’s never going to be passed.
~ Stephen Harper (born: 1959-04-30 age: 53) anti-environmental Prime Minister of Canada, Toronto Star, 2002-09-05
Some of the techniques for reducing CO₂ also have a beneficial effect on other pollutants as well. For example, more efficient appliances means less coal has to be burned to produce the electricity, which means less sulphur and acid rain. More fuel-efficient cars mean less emissions of all types. Green technology for heating means less particulates emitted. Wind and solar don’t produce any emissions of any kind. But even if reducing green house gas were to have no beneficial effects on traditional pollution, you still have to do it. It threatens global human survival.

My party’s position on the Kyoto Protocol is clear and has been for a long time. We will oppose ratification of the Kyoto Protocol and its targets. We will work with the provinces and others to discourage the implementation of those targets. And we will rescind the targets when we have the opportunity to do so.
~ Stephen Harper (born: 1959-04-30 age: 53) anti-environmental Prime Minister of Canada, Ottawa Citizen, 2002-11-22
This sounds a bit like a pact with the devil. Harper is pledging to increase green house gas emissions and destroy the earth. He even admits his motivation is money.

No, what I am supportive of is, frankly, not ratifying the Kyoto agreement and not implementing it.
~ Stephen Harper (born: 1959-04-30 age: 53) anti-environmental Prime Minister of Canada, CTV (Canadian Television network) News, 2002-09-06.
This is the same man who lied brazenly on national television in 2008-10 claiming his political party had the strongest plan to deal with greenhouse gases. Cough!

Only when Canada is all that it can be is our work done.
~ Stephen Harper (born: 1959-04-30 age: 53) in a campaign ad aired on 2011-04-30
“Be All You Can Be” was the recruiting slogan of the United States Army for over twenty years.

The accord does negatively impact every region of the country. So rather than talk up separation, it is important to build a coalition across the country to defeat Kyoto.
~ Stephen Harper (born: 1959-04-30 age: 53) anti-environmental Prime Minister of Canada, Report Newsmagazine, 2002-12-16

The Kyoto protocol does not deal with critical environmental issues.
~ Stephen Harper (born: 1959-04-30 age: 53) anti-environmental Prime Minister of Canada, Address on the Kyoto Accord, 2002-12-09
Of course. There are many environmental problems it does not attack, but it does attack the #1 threat to humanity. Just because there needs to be work on the #2 and #3 problems too is no excuse to do nothing about #1.

There is no environmental benefit [to Kyoto] of any kind.
~ Stephen Harper (born: 1959-04-30 age: 53) anti-environmental Prime Minister of Canada, Rafe Mair Show, CKNW Radio Vancouver, 2002-11-29
Since Harper considers selfish economics as the only valid motivation for action I will confine myself to financial benefits. Given that global warming allowed to run rampant will kill billions, that will reduce Canada’s markets for goods. Global warming will submerge the Vancouver International airport, and other highly valuable land on the Fraser River delta. Global warming causes extreme weather (droughts, floods, high heat, hurricanes, tornadoes and forest fires from increased lightning, winds, heat and drought). Such weather is less conducive to agriculture. This will impair Canada’s ability to export wheat, beef, canola etc.

This is just the beginning of the biggest black-hole boondoggle in Canadian history.
~ Stephen Harper (born: 1959-04-30 age: 53) anti-environmental Prime Minister of Canada, National Post, 2003-08-13
On the contrary, doing nothing about alternative energy, efficiency and Kyoto is a boondoggle to put the country at the mercy of big oil, who will be able to jack their prices as high as they please because there will be no alternatives and a shrinking supply of crude.

This may be a lot of fun for a few scientific and environmental elites in Ottawa, but ordinary Canadians from coast to coast will not put up with what this will do to their economy and lifestyle…
~ Stephen Harper (born: 1959-04-30 age: 53) anti-environmental Prime Minister of Canada, Toronto Star, 2002-09-05
I ride a bike. I would love it if diesel trucks emitted less crap in my face. That would be an improvement in my life style I would greatly enjoy.

We can debate whether or not…CO₂ does or does not contribute to global warming. I think the jury is out.
~ Stephen Harper (born: 1959-04-30 age: 53) anti-environmental Prime Minister of interview on the Rafe Mair Show, CKNW Radio Vancouver, 2002-11-29
That is simply not true. Harper is parroting FUD put out by big oil. Back in 1824 Fourier discovered the greenhouse effect (when Marx was still only 6 years old). Svante Arrhenius, the great Swedish chemist published his calculations in 1896 about how atmospheric CO₂ concentrations control the average global temperature, and how certain amount of CO₂ was needed to prevent an ice age.

We think the deal itself [Kyoto] is simply bogus.
~ Stephen Harper (born: 1959-04-30 age: 53) anti-environmental Prime Minister of Canada, Rafe Mair Show, CKNW Radio Vancouver, 2002-11-29
In a sense, Harper is correct. Kyoto is just a baby step, about 1/30 of the job. However, refusing to even start guarantees failure.

We’re gearing up now for the biggest struggle our party has faced since you entrusted me with the leadership. I’m talking about the Battle of Kyoto — our campaign to block the job-killing, economy-destroying Kyoto accord.
~ Stephen Harper (born: 1959-04-30 age: 53) anti-environmental Prime Minister of Canada, Canadian Alliance fundraising letter, 2002 fall
Harper can’t have it both ways that Kyoto is both job-killing and expensive. Spending on green technology obviously creates jobs. If it could be done without spending any money, it would not create any jobs. Jobs require money to pay the people who fill them. They are good jobs too, ones not easily outsourced.

You’re a journalist, and we all know journalists make bad politicians. Politicians know they have to stick to a message. That’s how they are successful. Journalists think they always have to tell the truth.
~ Stephen Harper (born: 1959-04-30 age: 53)
This was how Prime Minister Stephen Harper chastised former Minister of Revenue, Garth Turner, before kicking him out of the party. Turner wrote Sheeple about his experiences.

Nothing is personal in politics, because politics is theatre. It is part of the job to pretend to have emotions that you do not actually feel.
~ Michael Ignatieff (born: 1947-05-12 age: 65), Leader of the Liberal party in Canada.

To defeat evil, we may have to traffic in evils; indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive war.
~ Michael Ignatieff (born: 1947-05-12 age: 65), Leader of the Liberal party in Canada.
Somebody send a Star Wars DVD (Digital Video Disk) set to Michael. He needs to understand the dangers of dabbling in the dark side of the Force. If you become as evil as your enemy, he has already won. Michael has forgotten just what he is protecting with his evil — a tradition of justice, fair play and the rule of law.

We need to make sure that assassinations don’t do more harm than good.
~ Michael Ignatieff (born: 1947-05-12 age: 65), Leader of the Liberal party in Canada.
If you become as evil as your enemy, he has already won.

We will pay all your post secondary education if you served your country.
~ Michael Ignatieff (born: 1947-05-12 age: 65) 2011-04-09 leader of the Liberal party of Canada.
This is sick! These soldiers are war criminals who aided and abetted an illegal aggressive (first strike) war. They did not serve Canada, they served their own base instincts. Legally they should face life imprisonment or hanging, not rewards! Canada was in no danger.

Frankly, I think it [cutting the environmental staff in half] is part of a larger war by Mr. Harper, Mr. Kent and Mr. Oliver. They are at war with the environment, and they are at war with people who are interested in preserving the environment. There is just no other way to describe it. These cuts and all the other things that have been going on, and there are a lot of them, are a huge disaster in which the Canadian federal government is systematically disbanding our ability to respond to pollution events; they are disbanding environmental legislation; they are disbanding enforcement capacity. Its systematic.
~ Professor Ian L. Jones , podcast

Sewage and solid waste are the bread and butter issues across Canada.
~ Raymond Louie (born: 1965-01-16 age: 47) Deputy Mayor of Vancouver, BC Canada
Nummy!

Canada will not sign onto a new agreement that does not include all major [CO₂ ] emitters.
~ Christian Paradis (born: 1974-01-01 age: 38) Conservative Minister of Industry, government spokesperson on the environment. Hansard 2011-11-28 .
Canada is the only country reneging on its obligations of the Kyoto treaty. By Paradis’s reasoning you could say, “I won’t go on a diet and stop smoking until all the other grossly obese smokers do so as well.”. When I was a child I heard Peter O’Toole and Siân Phillips do The Taming of the Shrew on a LP. In Act IV scene iii, Petruchio denies the famished Kate meat finding every excuse why it is not suitable. Then he denies her clothing claiming the tailor’s offering was “a custard-coffin, a bauble, a silken pie”. Paradis, Kent and Harper are using that same old tactic to deny Canada climate change action.

95% of Canada’s budget in Afghanistan is for killing Muslims and destroying buildings. 5% is for clinics and schools. Guess which part gets 95% of the TV coverage. If you are cynical, you might think even that 5% is purely for P.R. to sell the war.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

A country that elects a known mentally ill person, e.g. a global warming denier such as Stephen Harper or a cocaine and alcohol abuser such as George W. Bush, fully deserves extinction.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

A panel charged with finding the cause of homelessness discovered that the rise of homelessness exactly mirrored the decline in public housing. In other words, the problem is prime minister Harper’s fault. Why they are we punishing the homeless who had nothing to do with creating the situation? Harper is the only one with the power to fix the problem.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Albertans who vote for the Wild Rose party are similar to the Germans who voted for the Nazi party in the 1930s. They are giving in to their darker sides, indulging racial hate, homophobia and greed that destroys the earth for the next generation. Danielle Smith, the leader of the party, deals with environmental greenhouse gas issues by lying that they do not exist. She an planetary traitor. In a logical society, she would be tried and sentenced to life in prison. There is no greater crime. It is a more serious form of sabotaging the life support system of a space station.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

All the other world leaders, even China, India, Brazil and Europe are on board for stopping climate change. Only Canada’s leader, Stephen Harper, is a climate change denier. Obama acknowledges the problem but still does nothing. It is no co-incidence Harper belongs to a whacky Christian fundamentalist cult. However, as the son of an oilman, his true church is the church of Oil. Because of Harper, the rest of the world think Canadians are crazy and no longer listen to us.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

American corporations want a leader of Canada who lets them destroy the environment, exploit Canadian workers, sell huge amounts of unnecessary military hardware etc. It is thus no accident that Harper was caught using the exact same illegal dirty tricks pioneered by Karl Rove in the USA to steal the 2010 election.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Andrew Coyne, editor of Maclean’s Magazine,says that the endless Afghan occupation is justified to prevent Afghanistan from attacking Canada. By that logic, he would justify invading Mexico to prevent drug lords there from exporting drugs to Canada. This is nonsense. Afghanistan did not attack on 9/11. Bush alleges bin Laden and a group of Saudis did it, (though it seems to me the evidence points to it being mostly an inside job). By Canada’s UN Charter treaty, (which trumps even Canada’s constitution) paranoia is not justification. Everyone involved has committed a capital war crime. I wonder how much Coyne was paid to say that crap. Who paid him is obvious. Only a very few people have benefited from the war.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

At the insistence of George W. Bush, Stephen Harper made a law requiring permanent residents in Canada to get an ID card that lets them back in the country. To apply you must be able to account for your whereabouts and your place of work for the last five years on a week-by-week basis! Why on earth is that much information needed for a simple ID card? This is just hassling people out of sheer devilry. The kit to apply tells you that you must pay a fee, but does not tell you how much or where to send it.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

At the request of a group of prostitutes seeking safer working conditions the Ontario Supreme Court overturned several laws that make the sex trade more dangerous than it need be. Harper is launching an appeal, but outrageous part is he claims he is doing it to improve sex trade safety! What utter nonsense! He simply wants to re-impose his religious values. He wants the trade as dangerous as possible. He wants hookers beat up and murdered. In his puritanical fundamentalist view, that is their just reward.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

At the time of the invasion of the Europeans, the land, rivers and seas of Canada were able to support about 200,000 first nations people hunting and fishing. Since that time, the population has grown 550% to 1.1 million. First Nations people harbour the romantic notion that if the Canadian federal government would just get off their backs, they could support themselves with hunting and fishing in the traditional way. Even if Canada shut down all commercial fishing, banned all white people from hunting or fishing, and told the native peoples they could hunt and fish as much as they pleased, the land and seas could still only support a population of 200,000. Actually, the number it could support is even less than that because at the time of the arrival of the Europeans the first nations people were not surviving solely from hunting and fishing. They got most of their calories from agriculture. There is no possible way hunting and fishing could support today’s first nations population. White people are responsible for many first nations ills, but this is not one of them.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Boycott Alberta! Albertans gave Harper the majority mandate to continue and expand killing children in Afghanistan. Canada’s attack on Afghanistan is illegal. All who aid or abet this aggressive war are guilty of a capital war crime. Read up on the Nuremberg war crime trials if you doubt. Alberta is also the worst behaved province when it comes to protecting the environment and stopping global warming.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Canada attacked Afghanistan unprovoked. We helped the USA kill and torture millions of Afghan civilians. This is by far the most evil deed Canada has ever done. On 2011-05-02, we elected Harper and gave him a majority government mandate to extend the war at least another six years. We Canadians, especially those who voted for Harper, fully deserve to die by the millions for that war crime.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Canada is far more likely to suffer from the USA bullying it to relinquish its oil and water using military might than it is to be harmed from attacks from Muslim extremists.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Canada negotiated a treaty to ban cluster bombs. The USA refused to sign. Then Harper, in the legislation to ratify the treaty, sabotaged it by allowing Canada to use them when on joint missions with non-party (e.g. the USA) states. Earl Turquotte, the diplomat who negotiated the treaty for Canada, said cluster bombs are an even more barbaric weapon than land mines. Harper is a treacherous sadist.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Drunk drivers kill three people a day in Canada. The grief for the families is just as profound as if they had been mowed down with machine guns, but the law treats this as a relatively minor crime. In Roman times, crimes committed while drunk were punished doubly severely because there were two crimes committed: letting oneself get blotto to the extent they were not in control and the crime itself.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

During the 1930s people saw Hitler as a plump, pompous buffoon with a Jones for all things military. My parents told of watching movie shorts of his speeches in German. The audience howled with laughter. Remind you of anyone?
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Ed Fast, Conservative member from Abbotsford sees Canada’s problem is that we have too many fish and not enough markets for them. He has this backwards. Our problem is failing fish stocks, primarily from overfishing, pollution and interfering will seals culling diseased and deformed fish.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Even though Harper kept his anti-gay beliefs largely under wraps during the election, it is no accident that the map of Conservative victories also maps the areas of higher than average bigotry.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Harper did something politically insane. He has been giving away the store to big oil supporters and gleefully trashing the environment. He fired 50% of department after department, slashed salaries then sneakily raised the salaries of his close friends. This is bound to infuriate people to just short of murder. What the heck is going on? Perhaps Harper has seen his popularity sinking rapidly in the polls. Perhaps he knows what fury will rain down on him when the public finds out how widespread the election scandal is. Perhaps he is just trying to grab as much money as he can on his way out the door.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Harper falsely claims that coalitions are illegitimate, that they are not permitted by constitutional law. This is nonsense. There are plenty of historical precedents, including Britain and Australia today. A coalition, to rule, must have more seats than any other single party. There is nothing in the least undemocratic about it. You can think of a coalition as a temporary merger of two parties.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Harper has a book coming out this fall called Sell That Kidney! about how you can pay your bills by selling off the kidneys of family members for organ transplants. It is modeled on his experiences raising money for Canada through lax environmental policy.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Harper is disproportionately firing scientists with his supposed cost-cutting measures. What he is really doing is shutting up rational opposition to his seat-of-the-pants, ideological and fundamentalist-Christian-based ways of making decisions.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Harper is doing for the Conservative Party what George W. Bush did for the Republicans. Conservatives concerned about the long term viability of the party would be wise to replace him before he pulls a Mulroney on party popularity.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Harper traded rights to Canada’s water for two pandas, actually just the right to rent them for a million dollars a year each for ten years. Why does this story sound familiar?
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Harper’s blithe ignorance of the dangers of global warning are like a glutton who explains to his doctor he will consider giving up donuts, tobacco and beer only after he needs a quadruple bypass and a liver transplant.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Harper’s economic plan for Canada is to sell off its non-renewable natural resources as quickly as possible in as raw a state a possible. There is only a limited amount to sell. Then what?
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Hey soldier! Did you expect me to welcome you home from Afghanistan where you went on a spree killing people who were no possible threat to Canada? The only way I would welcome you back is if you arrived in a coffin. You attacked them unprovoked. They did not attack you. That makes you a war criminal guilty of a capital war crime. The only way you can possibly atone is to lose your life, and even that does not come close. You have only one life to shed in shame for the many you have taken.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

I am a Canadian. My country sends soldiers to Afghanistan to kill people who offer no threat to Canada. It bothers me deeply that they kill so many children for the crassest reasons like stealing lithium, heroin profits, a free pipeline route for Unocal or caving to bullying from the USA. Whenever a Canadian soldier kills a child they either claim it was self defence because the child might have been carrying a grenade, or collateral damage, because they killed the child with remote control warfare where they could not see their victims. The one consolation I have is knowing that the lives of butterflies are still worthwhile, no matter how short they are.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

I am so ashamed of my fellow Canadians. How stupid can they be to be spooked by a professional liar, Peter Kent, Canada’s Environment Minister and shill for big oil, claiming that any attempt to deal with greenhouse gasses means starving and freezing to death while ignoring 99% of the world’s scientists warning them of the real dangers of a runaway greenhouse effect.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

I can’t think of a single time when Stephen Harper acted to protect the environment when it would cause even a penny loss of profitability for some corporation. He is a climate change denier for pity sake. No matter what he promises, he has no intention of protecting the environment. He sees the world purely through the eyes of short-term economics.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

I had no idea how jaw-dropping unfair we Canadians have been to the indigenous people. The indigenous people started with all the land and ended up with only a tiny fraction of it, but the conniving that made that happen is just a tiny part of abuse of power. What really revolts me is not the villainous bigotry of a few Canadians but the institutional bigotry of the majority, reflected in the grossly unfair Indian Act. Here are some of the amendments made to it over the years:

1881: Amended to make officers of the Indian Department, including Indian Agents, legal justices of the peace, able to enforce regulations. The following year they were granted the same legal power as magistrates. Further amended to prohibit the sale of agricultural produce by Indians in Prairie Provinces without an appropriate permit from an Indian agent. This prohibition is, as of 2008, still included in the Indian Act, though it is not enforced.

1885: Amended to prohibit religious ceremonies (such as potlatches) and dances (such as Tamanawas dances).

1894: Amended to remove band control of non-natives living on reserve. This power now vested exclusively in the hands of the Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs.

1895: Amended to outlaw all dances, ceremonies and festivals that involved the wounding of animals or humans, or the giving away of money or goods. [no birthday parties]

1905: Amended to allow aboriginal people to be removed from reserves near towns with more than 8,000 residents.

1906: Amended to allow only 50% of the sale price of reserve lands to be given to band members, following the surrender of that land.

1911: Amended to allow municipalities and companies to expropriate portions of reserves, without surrender, for roads, railways, and other public works. Further amended to allow a judge to move an entire reserve away from a municipality if it was deemed "expedient." These amendments were also known as the Oliver Act.

1914: Amended to require western Indians to seek official permission before appearing in “aboriginal costume” in any “dance, show, exhibition, stampede or pageant”.

1918: Amended to allow the Superintendent-General to lease out uncultivated reserve lands to non-aboriginals if the new lease-holder used it for farming or pasture.

1920: Amended to allow the Department of Indian Affairs to ban hereditary rule of bands. Further amended to allow for the involuntary enfranchisement (and loss of treaty rights) of any status Indian considered fit by the Department of Indian Affairs, without the possession of land previously required for those living off reserve. Repealed two years later, but reintroduced in a modified form in 1933.

1927: Amended to prevent anyone (aboriginal or otherwise) from soliciting funds for Indian legal claims without a special license from the Superintendent-General. This effectively prevented any First Nation from pursuing aboriginal land claims. Not only were indigenous people effectively not permitted to hire lawyers, they were not permitted to go to law school to represent themselves.

1930: Amended to prevent a pool hall owner from allowing entrance to an Indian who “by inordinate frequenting of a pool room either on or off an Indian reserve misspends or wastes his time or means to the detriment of himself, his family or household”. The owner could face a fine or a one-month jail term.

1936: Amended to allow Indian agents to direct band council meetings, and to cast a deciding vote in the event of a tie.

1951: Amended to henceforth allow the sale and slaughter of livestock without an Indian Agent permit. Status women are allowed to vote in band elections. Attempts to pursue land claims, and the use of religious ceremonies (such as potlatches) are no longer prohibited by law. Further amended for the compulsory enfranchisement of First Nations women who married non-status men (including Métis, Inuit and non-status Indian, as well as non-aboriginal men), thus causing them to lose their status, and denying Indian status to any children from the marriage.

2000: Amended to allow band members living off reserves to vote in band elections and referendums.

And that does not touch on the way children were torn from their parents, sent to residential schools, beaten for speaking their home languages and sexually abused as part of a mad scheme to force assimilation, to make the aboriginals indistinguishable from the European settlers.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

I have often puzzled why Stephen Harper would deliberately lead his country and his planet to destruction by blocking all national and international attempts at controlling greenhouse gases. Elizabeth May, the head of the Green Party, told me she is convinced he is simply misinformed, since she has seen him with his kids and he clearly loves them. I don’t see how this could possibly be so. His own scientists have informed him of the truth. His professed kooky beliefs have made Canada the butt of international ridicule. He is not some uninformed hick. I think the best model is a meth or nicotine addict. An addict is fully aware the drugs will eventually kill him, that they will destroy his health and they will harm his family, but he takes them anyway, because the short term pleasure is too irresistible. Addicts often pretend to be in denial about the dangers of addiction. For Harper, the short pleasure is the is the money he gets from the oil companies to pretend to be a global warming denier. That money pays for the campaigns that let him have the supreme satisfaction of being Prime Minister of Canada. He is willing to sacrifice his own family and his own country for that petty, sick power trip. Unlike most of his predecessors, he likes power for the sake of power, not for what he can do with it to serve his country and planet.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

I know it is all the rage to laud Canadian soldiers, especially dead ones, as if they were heroes, on par with fire fighters or police SWAT teams. But the fact is they are anything but heroes. Afghanistan did not attack Canada (or the USA for that matter). It could not do so even if it tried. Canadian soldiers are thus not defending Canada. What motivates the soldiers is simple — they like killing people, any people, and getting away with it. That puts them on the same moral footing with civilian serial killers like Paul Bernardo.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

I learned at an anthropology lecture that in the 1860s here in BC Canada, the British distributed blankets infected with slabs of skin stripped from natives who had just recently died of small pox to every native in the province. Men were assigned to make sure every single native touched what looked like a snakeskin. Within 10 days, 98% of the population were dead. The British who had used these primitive but effective biological weapons went to claim the lands of the people they had killed even before they were dead.

Many people dismiss as totally out of hand that anyone would deliberately spread HIV (Human Imumuno-deficiency Virus) in Africa, as I accuse Ronald Reagan. They forget there is plenty of precedent.

~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

I predict that Mr. Harper will pull the same filthy trick as the Republicans in the USA, claiming his majority gives him a mandate to implement all manner of unpopular policies he barely mentioned during the election.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

I wondered why Harper was misleading people, trying to convince them that the NDP was doing much better than they actually were. I think the idea is he was hoping to scare right-leaning Liberals into the Conservative camp to stop an NDP majority government.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

If someone drives drunk an kills someone, and someone else drives drunk and does not kill someone, they both did the exact same thing wrong. The first also had an accident. There was no criminal intent to that. Therefore the criminal penalty for driving drunk should be the same as for driving drunk and killing someone.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

If the Russians invaded Canada, killing millions of people in the process and took our natural resources, made our country export $1 trillion in illegal drugs each year, built a pipeline from north to south across the entire country without paying anyone a penny of compensation, installed a drug lord as the puppet government and then a Russian soldier came to you door and said in broken English “We are here to help you.” what would you think? Why then do Canadians and Americans invading Afghanistan expect a different reaction?
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

If you had a party in Canada and told your guests “no guns” they would look at you as oddly as if you had said “please leave your octopus at home”. No one would ever think to do such a thing.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Imagine ordering a custom-built yacht without first seeing the plans or a having contract nailing down the price. You are just asking to get screwed, same as Harper did with the F35s.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Imagine you were Rob Nicholson, minister of Justice for Canada. Your boss told you to reduce crime and simultaneously reduce costs. What would you do? You might have a look at what other countries were doing, searching for proven workable ideas. However, Rob Nicholson is a Conservative, so that approach is unthinkable. The only solution he will consider is more of the same Conservative ideology, damn whether it works, or even makes things worse. Partly he has a serious case of NIH (Not Invented Here) imagining Canada is a special case and that experiences anywhere else are necessarily irrelevant because Canadians are superior to those other people. However, Nicholson is not quite as irrational as he first sounds. The Conservative party is massively funded by the prison industry, who in turn demand contracts to build new prisons and new laws to populate those prisons.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

In Canada, the first-past-the-post electoral system exaggerates the degree of support that the Liberal and Conservatives parties enjoy. Both parties are owned by the corporations, and the corporations strongly support the status quo. People who would prefer policies of the other parties are frustrated at not having their numbers reflected in seats in parliament. The corporations go so far as to keep the other parties out of public debates, hoping to convince the public they are not legitimate choices.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

In Canada’ electoral system, it is possible for a party to win a majority government with less than 1/3 the vote. This gives the Prime Minister the powers of a typical dictator for up to 5 years. The majority and party discipline protects him from a vote of non-confidence. Unfortunately, Prime Ministers such as Stephen Harper falsely interpret their majorities as approval by all Canadians to do whatever they please. They pretend to forget most Canadians voted against them and that they are sworn to look out for the interests of those people too.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

In his 2011 campaign speeches, Harper has made it clear his top priority is the well-being of Canadian business and the military. The environment and the welfare of the poor are not even on the radar, neither is ending the Afghan war.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

In the 1930’s a pudgy ridiculous little German slowly salami sliced away democracy in his country. People ignored him because he was such a pathetic creature, because each slice he stole was so thin and because people did not want the confrontation or to look as if there were overreacting. Everyone pretended not to notice what was happening. Steven Harper is doing the same thing today in Canada. Recall that Hitler too was laughable up until the point he had consolidated sufficient power. Harper is both corrupt and delusional. He believes he does not need science, statistics or even raw information to guide him. Voices in his head that he believes are the god Jehovah are all he thinks he needs. He is a sadistic reincarnation of the religious kook, MacKenzie King.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

In the Canadian leadership debate on 2011-04-12, Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff and Conservative Leader Stephen Harper both told two mega lies:

The Afghans like being occupied, and would be disappointed if we left.

We are in Afghanistan to bring democracy.

If the majority of Afghans welcomed the invasion, then the war would have been over in months. How could a minority of Afghans have prevailed for 10 years and 8 months against the combined might of the majority of Afghans, the USA, Canada, Britain…?

We have imposed dictator Hamid Karzai on the Afghans. He is the biggest drug lord on the planet. He is the world’ most corrupt politician. He imposes draconian Shari’a law, (e.g. whipping women), the same as the original Taliban government did. There is no way you can characterise that as bringing democracy.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

It turns out Harper kept two sets of books on the F-35 fighter acquisition. Think of how many crooks were nailed when their double set of books were discovered. It is incontrovertible proof for court of criminal activity.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64) source

Let’s review. President Bush told us that he had absolutely no idea that 9/11 was coming, but within hours was 100% certain Osama bin Laden, a Saudi, was responsible. Later he announced that Mahmud Ahmad, the Pakistani ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) head of security, bankrolled it. He presented no evidence, presumably because he was concerned such information might be valuable to terrorists. He announced that Saddam Hussein, the leader of Iraq, though a wicked man, had no ties to 9/11. Then he invaded, not Saudi Arabia, not Pakistan, but Afghanistan and later Iraq and set up puppet governments. He explained that Saudi Arabia and Pakistan were still staunch allies. Stephen Harper, on 2009-04-04 explained that Canada did not actually invade Afghanistan, but had been invited by the Afghan government to help with security. That reminds me of the sorts of lies the Soviet Union used to tell about its suppression of Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Harper is vague. He could be claiming the Taliban invited Canada in, or that the Karzai puppet government was in power at the time of the invasion. Either claim is preposterous. To cap it off, the bulk of the publicly accessible evidence points to 9/11 being an inside job. According to the head of German security, bin Laden and his motley band were nowhere near capable of pulling off such a dramatic feat. But the really astounding thing is most Americans see nothing at all odd in any of this.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Mr. Harper’s will requests that his ashes be scattered over an oil slick.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

On 2012-04-03, Michael Ferguson, Auditor General of Canada, raked dozens of people in the department of defence over the coals for lying about the useless F35 fighter jets, the biggest procurement in Canadian history. They lied that the cost of the 65 jets, claiming it would be $16 billion when it would actually be at least $25 billion. As Thomas Mulcair, the new leader of the NDP put it, “If the prime minister knew, what he did was egregious, if he did not know, he is incompetent. Which is it?” The auditor general did not specifically mention the lies of Prime Minister Harper or any of this cabinet ministers, but even more important than the lying is the motive for lying. It is traditional for a contractor to win such mega contracts by bribing everyone and his dog. The bribe is not necessarily a Mulroneyian envelope of cash. It can be a tip where to purchase a yacht for $50. Consider that on an $25 billion sale, a bribe of $1,000,000 for each of 100 people amounts to less than half of 1% commission.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

On 2012-04-26, the auditor General revealed that Stephen Harper and his cabinet knew way back in 2008 that the F-35 fighter jets he planned to buy would cost $25 billion, not $16 billion as he lied repeatedly to Canadians and to parliament. And that is not counting the inevitable overruns in such a large contract without a fixed price. But he also told another even more egregious lie — he lied about the purpose of the jets. Harper claimed they were to defend the Canadian north. The F-35 is a single engine short-range stealth fighter designed to be launched from a ship, close to a hot spot, to launch surprise first-strike attacks on another country. It it useless for defending the vast Canadian North. It is actually for tagging along on American resource war strikes. Surely we have had enough of that nonsense already with Afghanistan.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64) Source

One of the most galling things about Steven Harper is he believes his majority government (granted by a minority of voters), gives him the right to impose his personal religious superstitions and moral notions on those his senior.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

People used to shun those who supported the illegal Nazi invasions. It is time to similarly shun those who voted to give Harper a mandate to continue and expand the equally illegal Afghan war. It is time they faced consequences for that war crime.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

People who vote Conservative either are in the privileged class, they imagine real soon now they will be. As such, they believe the government should take from the underprivileged classes to give to them. They deserve it because they are better than everyone else, especially non-white, non-heterosexual, non-male, non-employed, non-English speaking sorts of people.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Political parties hate minority governments, but historically the periods of the best governance were in times of minority governments. When a party gains a majority, it becomes arrogant and governs solely to please its extreme base. When a party rules by minority it is much more likely to govern considering the interests of all Canadians.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has gutted the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) by cutting its budget by $200 million dollars. This will mean firing 650 people and drastic cuts in programming. Next to old age pensions, the CBC is the most popular government service. There is nothing remotely like it in the private sector. It is the main institution for national unity keeping everyone informed about what people are up to in all parts of Canada, especially the remote and rural parts. At the same time, Harper wants to spend over $25 billion dollars on white-elephant F35 jets. He has made it clear, he wants only 100% Conservative-approved, global-warming denying, pro-corporate, pro-oil, pro-mining, anti-environment propaganda on Canada’s air waves. The CBC broadcasts too wide a spectrum of views to suit his autocratic ways.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is firing the counselors who look after returning Canadian vets from Afghanistan. One of the counselors went on the CBC and said that the counselors had to work full time to keep the vets from committing suicide. She was worried many of them would kill themselves if the counseling stopped. Why are these vets so suicide prone? Well, why does anyone commit suicide?

They may believe that there is no hope for happiness in the remainder of their lives. This might apply to soldiers who lost their legs and genitals or those whose injuries made them hideous.

They may despise themselves and believe they do not deserve to live. They are terminally ashamed of what they did or what they are.

But, you ask, soldiers did horrible things in WWII (World War II), such as dropping a nuke on Hiroshima and fire bombing Tokyo. Why did they too not have such a high suicide rate?

Killing civilians has low military utility; it is just a distraction from the serious job of crippling the enemy’s ability to wage war. However, WWII soldiers convinced themselves any atrocity was justified since the Japanese started the fight. In contrast, the Afghan vets had no such excuse for their atrocities. Afghanistan was no threat whatsoever to Canada. If you doubt, ask yourself why is Canada withdrawing, not surrendering, and why has no not one general fretted about how to defend Canada from Afghanistan?

Because there was a draft in WWII, there no shortage of soldiers. They would be rotated into combat, and relatively quickly rotated back out, before they burned out. However, in the Afghan war, there was no draft. A draft would have created public opposition to the war, so there was none. As a result, there were nowhere near enough soldiers. Soldiers thus got almost no time off. Neither were they permitted to retire even when they were completely burned out.

The quickest and least shameful way to commit suicide is to deliberately die in battle. This means the suicide rate is under-reported.

I have no sympathy whatsoever for the vets. Ignorance of the law is no excuse. They knew perfectly well that the war was first-strike and that first strike wars are illegal, making them guilty of a capital war crime. They had no motive to go to Afghanistan except bullying, rape, killing and torture. In short, that had no motive but sadism. Now they are feeling so guilty about what they did, they are killing themselves off. I say, let them. What they did to others was far more cruel than what they are doing to themselves to atone. I’m with Harper. People who commit capital crimes don’t deserve free counseling.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

RackNine aka 2call is company that makes robot phone calls during elections. Elections Canada traced fraudulent calls to them that they made during the last Canadian federal election, purporting to be from Elections Canada telling voters their polling place had changed. They targeted Liberal and NDP voters sending them out to non-existent addresses to vote. Twelve candidates from the Conservative party of Canada made extensive use of legitimate services from RackNine, in their campaigns including Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Now the Conservative Party and RackNine all claim perfect innocence. Harper claims it must have been some rogue teenager acting on his own. I find it hard to believe a teen was able to finance and organise a dirty tricks campaign in over 47 ridings that has so far generated 31,000 complaints. That strains credulity, especially when the Conservatives were caught in hundreds of other dirty tricks. Who else had any motive to commit the crime? Who else could have done it? There might not yet be enough evidence to convict Harper in a court of law, but there is certainly enough to convict him in the court of common sense. He should resign. His denials are as believable as someone into whose bank account a million dollars was embezzled.

This crime could not have be committed without the help of technicians, speaker/actors, robocall management of three different robocall companies, people who made the arrangements for all 47 ridings, and of course somebody with substantial cash to fund it all. It should be only a matter of time until somebody blows the whistle.

Cui prodest scelus, is fecit. (The one who derives advantage from the crime is the one most likely to have committed it.)
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca (born: 4 BC died: 65 AD at age: 68)
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Religious leaders assert that behaving well sets the bar and encourages others to behave well. If you behave badly, it gives an excuse for others to behave badly. Canada’s Prime Minister Harper and environment minister Peter Kent disingenuously assert the opposite. They claim the more Canada emits greenhouse gasses the more it will encourage others to cut back. What an absurd excuse for toadying to the oil companies.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Religious leaders assert that behaving well sets the bar and encourage others to behave well. If you behave badly, it gives an excuse for others to behave badly. Canada’s Prime Minister Harper disingenuously asserts the opposite. He claims the more Canada emits greenhouse gasses the more it will encourage others to cut back. What an absurd excuse for toadying to the oil companies.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Stephen Harper cannot be trusted. Why?

On 2005-02-14, Harper signed the Atlantic accord which laid out the rules by which the federal and Atlantic provinces would share revenue. Then he tore it up, and imposed his own rules without any renegotiation.

In the campaign platform document for the 2006-01-23 federal election, Harper promised never to tax income trusts, a popular form of saving for retirement. On 2006-11-01 he announced a tax on them so substantial it pretty much terminated the income trust. Many people lost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars as the value of trusts suddenly collapsed. To make matters worse, insiders leaked information about the sudden change so that friends of Harper could reap a windfall.

On 2008-09-10, Harper promised to end the Afghan war by 2011. Then he changed his mind. Now there is no end is sight for this war that has dragged on pointlessly for 10 years and 8 months.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Stephen Harper dishonestly equates criticising the government of Israel with anti-Semitism. Making disparaging comments about all Jews is anti-Semitism. It is not bigotry to criticise the actions of any individual or any government. The degree of Jewishness is irrelevant. It makes no sense to disparage all Jews because they are all different. It is valid to criticise the government of Israel because it has a single coherent set of policies, just like any other government. Bigotry is about making broad over-generalisations ignoring the details of the case at hand.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Stephen Harper equates criticising Israel’s apartheid system with anti-semitism. This is just a cynical attempt to cover up bad behaviour on the part of the Israeli government by playing on sympathy for the Jews who suffered under Hitler. Just because one group of Jews suffered horribly does not give another group of Jews the right to make Palestinians suffer.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Stephen Harper fired half the department of the environment, and many other government departments. However he found money to fund an extended celebration of the War of 1812 between the USA and Canada. There are costumes, parades, flag and guns all through eastern Canada, even in towns that had nothing to do with the war. Why is he doing this? He loves war. He wants endless war. He wants to funnel billions to the war industry that funds his political campaigns and this is his way to sell war as fun. It is insane to celebrate people getting their limbs blown off. It is insane to celebrate gangrene.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Stephen Harper hates the environment with an irrational passion. I think this aberration came partly from his anti-environmentalist fundamentalist Christian upbringing and from accepting money from American oil companies who don’t care about the environment, only short term profit.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Stephen Harper is a war criminal who has brazenly committed a capital (hanging) crime, namely aiding and abetting an illegal aggressive (first strike) war — the unprovoked invasion and occupation of Afghanistan.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Stephen Harper is getting into deeper and deeper trouble with every passing day. He is becoming another Brian Mulroney who single handedly took the Progressive Conservative party from a tsunami majority to non-existence. Mulroney is involved in the following scandals and politically unpopular deeds we already know about:
Lying about the exorbitant cost of the F-35s.

Numerous election fraud scandals including robocalls to send voters to the wrong polling places.

Trashing the environment.

Pouring a torrent of money on big oil.

After slashing jobs and salaries, secretly giving his friends raises.

Dragging the Afghan war on for years after the public screamed “More than enough!”
And there are probably half a dozen more we don’t know about yet. So what is Harper to do?
He could resign, but the damage is already done. The Conservatives are tarred with aiding and abetting his crimes.

He could commit suicide. This would be a sincere apology. The people would feel he and his party has suffered enough and would give them a fresh start. He thinks far too much of himself to make that sacrifice.

The inner circle could facilitate/stage his suicide.

Take the Conservative party down with him.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Stephen Harper is pushing through an Orwellian Bill C-30 that requires ISP (Internet Service Provider) s to record everything their customers download over the Internet. No warrant is required. I think this is utterly foolish for eleven reasons:
The bill is ostensibly to help catch pedophiles, yet it casts a net thousands of times wider than necessary. The suggests the real purpose of the bill has little to do with kiddie porn.

It would be ridiculously expensive for the hardware and software to comply. Only the largest ISPs, the ones who support Harper with financial contributions, could stay in business. All the smaller competition would have to fold. These costs would be passed on to Canadian consumers, who already pay more than almost anyone else on the planet for Internet services. This would put Canadian business at a disadvantage internationally.

There are not enough disks on the planet to store and index all this information. Consider that every time a customer downloads a movie, the ISP must burn, index, and store the equivalent of one DVD . Every view of every newspaper page by every customer has to be collected and stored. Even a little viral video of a cat licking a bunny could require collecting and saving millions of copies of it, just in case it contained some kiddie porn. Every webcam stream must be collected in its entirety by every ISP whose customers view it. The total storage capacity of computers in Canada would have to increase by thousands of times. This would be prohibitively expensive. This goofy scheme is not even possible as it stands. That shows how little thought has gone into it.

Who is going to look at all this junk? It is hoarding on a colossal scale. It would make much more sense just to collect traffic from known kiddie porn sites broadcast on a list produced by the police. This would be a much more manageable stream. And there is no need to actually capture the stream content — the police can do that. All they need capture is the URL (Uniform Resource Locator)s, namely who requested what from the kiddie porn sides, a minute fraction of the cost of Harper’s grandiose scheme to spy about everything on everyone.

It is not CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Service) collecting and protecting this data, just ordinary civilian ISPs with no experience in high security. That means this data will leak and be used for all manner of improper purposes.

J. Edgar Hoover illegally spied on anyone he felt like it without warrants. This god-like power corrupted him. He used it to try to force Dr. Martin Luther King to commit suicide. I don’t trust Steven Harper with that smorgasbord of information, or ordinary police officers for that matter.

With these kinds of Orwellian powers to snoop, what is to stop him from turning or your webcam remotely and secretly spying on you?

If you want to stop kiddie porn, it would be trivially easy for ISP s just to block kiddie porn sites on a list provided electronically by the police.

Capturing https: or encrypted streams tells you nothing at all about the content. All financial traffic is encrypted. You cannot ban it.

Computers will track everyone, no exceptions. This means all kinds of things that should be kept top secret will be caught in the drag net, and eventually accidentally/criminally revealed, including embarrassing tidbits about what Mr. Harper does in his bedroom.

The coming fibre optic revolution delivering radio, music and ultra-high definition TV on demand will explode the amount of data traveling over the Internet, blowing out of the water even the most costly attempt to record all the traffic.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Stephen Harper pleads poverty every time he axes popular spending. There three much better places to cut:

The military. No one is threatening us. Why is Harper spending more than ever? We about to make the biggest purchase in Canadian history namely F-35 jets to patrol the north that can’t be used in the dark, namely 6 months of the year. This is a joke!

Corporations are behaving badly, unethically and greedily. We need to reign them in. By endless unchecked mergers and acquisitions, Nestle and Altria have taken control of almost every product you can buy in a supermarket. Farmers are going bankrupt while these middlemen siphon off an ever larger take. Large corporations exploit the loopholes they pay politicians to insert and pay no or even negative taxes.

You use about half your lifetime medical budget in the last year of life. I don’t want any painful, expensive or heroic measures that will just extend my life by a few months. Let me refuse these treatments without having to put up a battle royal. And when I find life has become intolerable, let me die peacefully, surrounded by friends, with a little medical help, while I am still coherent. Get those religious fanatics off my back.

~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Stephen Harper sang and played John Lennon’s Imagine in a campaign ad. The hypocrisy is a bit thick:

The song calls for peace. Harper has dragged the Afghan war on for 10 years and 8 months for no apparent purpose but enriching his contributors in the defence industry.

The song calls for the abolishment of religion. Harper tries to impose his evangelical Christian views on others.

Harper did not get permission to perform the song. Normally, he is a strict law and order man, always on the side of corporations. Yoko Ono demanded he withdraw the ad. He has refused to. He is a scofflaw. YouTube pulled the video.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Stephen Harper says that he just knows, despite the evidence of the Netherlands and California, that it is pointless to legalise marijuana, because the exact same criminal gangs will control the trade. By his logic, when the USA repealed prohibition, organised crime must have continued to control all alcohol production and sales. By Harper’s logic, criminal gangs could easily make billions off selling chocolate, coffee or Aspirin since it does not matter if something is legal or illegal to make it attractive to criminals. He is just playing dumb and counting on his base being dumb enough to fall for it. Why is he trying to deceive Canadians?
Because his base like the idea of punishing cannabis users for holding left-wing ideas that they find abhorrent.

Because his donors make huge amounts from building and running prisons. They need more prisoners to fill them. There are not enough criminals, so they much manufacture them scapegoating those who commit victimless crimes.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Stephen Harper wants to buy 192 F35 fighter jets. These are first strike weapons, intended for attacking third world nations like Iran. How did he come up with the number 192? At the Iraq war peak, the USA averaged 45 sorties a day. Just how big a fight is Canada planning to pick?
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Stephen Harper wants to spent $26 billion plus on F35 fighter jets. He says these are needed to defend Canada’s unoccupied north. Just who might consider challenging control of resources in the north? Russia might build an oil well. Would we dare bomb it and risk environmental disaster and nuclear reprisal? Would Canadians stand for such a violent response? Wouldn’t it make much more sense to send in the coast guard out to escort them out of Canada? China might mine the sea bed. Would we dare sink the ship and risk nuclear reprisal? Which country is Harper worried about attacking us with fighter jets? The USA is the country most likely to challenge control of the north’s natural resources, but they will proceed with lawyers, briefcases and NAFTA (North America Free Trade Agreement). They would not need to use their overwhelming supply of F35s. The military has made not even the most feeble attempt to explain why this particular weapon is needed, why in such numbers and the probable scenarios it which it would be effective.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Stephen Harper’ observable behaviour is like someone whose early masturbatory fantasies were about pulling the wings off flies, then who progressed to fantasies of slicing up living infants with a salami slicer, then who got a copy of Saddam’ tapes of people being tortured, then of some of Bush’s Iraq torture/rape videos. Now he wants a giant fleet of elite fighter jets so he can destroy entire cities in under an hour in an orgy of suffering and pain. He sabotaged the cluster bomb treaty so he can use them on non-Christian children he so despises. The power excites him something fierce. You can see it in his eyes and the swelling in his crotch. The man is losing control of his sadistic impulses. He must be removed from office.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Stephen Harper’s federal budget for Canada expresses his personal weirdness.

As a religious fundamentalist, he hates scientists and academics. He has fired most of the scientists and arranged that only those university scientists with sponsoring “industry partners’ will be allowed to get funding, equipment or to testify. He has cut science, research, technology and science education. These are what Canada needs to generate high-paying jobs.

As a religious nutcase, he is a global warming denier. He has muzzled environmental groups and greased the wheels for oil companies to railroad environmentally hazardous projects. He discourages green energy projects — the foundation of Canada’s economic future.

He has repealed the notion of endangered species, except for a few food fish, forgetting entirely that fish eat other fish that humans don’t eat.

He despises the elderly. He improperly confiscated a giant hunk of their pension fund and spent it on his pet projects. Now he wants the elderly to keep working another 7 years longer before than can retire. This is breaking a contract. You cannot ask people to contribute to a pension fund promising certain benefits, then abscond with the funds and give them hundreds of thousands of dollars less.

He is an ideologue. He wants to build expensive new prisons even though the crime rate is dropping, and there is plenty of evidence that prison is not effective for drug crimes.

He is a crook, just like his mentor Brian Mulroney, taking benefits from military contractors. He wants to make the biggest purchase in Canadian history for F-35 jets that cannot even fly in the 6-month night of the Canadian north he claims they are intended to defend.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. See my essay~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Stephen Harper’s G35 fighter jets will be obsolete before they are even built. Unmanned jets are cheaper, lighter, faster, more fuel efficient and more maneuverable.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Steven Harper plans the biggest military expenditure in Canadian history for F-35 jets even though they can’t be used in the dark, a supposedly mandatory requirement since in the North, Canada is dark half the year. Given how Mulroney took envelopes of cash from Airbus, I find difficult to believe he did not teach his protegé Harper how it is done.

Just who are these jets needed to defend against? The country most likely to invade Canada is the USA, the designer of the F-35, desperate for our water, oil and minerals. The Americans will have even more technologically advanced jets than ours. Our white elephants won’t deter them, besides the Americans won’t even need to use their military to take us over; they can do it with lawyers, briefcases and NAFTA .
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Steven Harper, corporate toady, is becoming more and more blatant in offering huge favours to corporations at the expense of ordinary citizens. Some examples include:

Refusal to regulate the banks or corporations to stop them from cheating and misleading customers.

Refusal to even permit organic farmers to label their food as not genetically modified.

Destroying all the fishing villages of the Maritimes by handing over fishing rights from private citizens to corporations.

Pushing a tar sands pipeline that will mean only a handful of long term jobs and inevitable destruction of the tourism, fishing and shellfish industries along the northern BC coast.

Giving public subsidies to Caterpillar then let them fire everyone, leave the country and keep the money.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Surprise! Harper is repealing six major environmental laws. There is not a single environmentalist, biologist or botanists in the country who thinks this is a good idea. The public has not called for it. Even two ex-Tory cabinet ministers have expressed their outrage. Harper is doing this purely on behalf of the bastards who violate these laws. He is doing it because they give him money to fund his elections. Harper belongs in prison if not worse.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

The bright side of the 2011-05-02 Harper majority is that Harper is addicted to power. He won’t be able to stop himself from abusing that power in ways that infuriate the vast majority of the Canadian people. It will be a long time before the next election, but when it comes, the Canadian people will turf him and his party out for a generation.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

The Canada-Israel Committee is the lobby group that provides the most free trips to Canadian MP (Member of Parliament)s. The MPs justify taking the trips on the grounds it helps them understand the middle-east situation. What is actually does is help them better understand the Israeli point of view, which they already understand far better than they understand the Palestinian point of view. Twelve of the trips were simple bribes, trips to giant birthday party.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

The Canadian marijuana industry is worth $20,000,000,000.00 CAD each year in exports. That is larger than wheat or fishing. 50% of the economy of Grand Forks a lumber town in BC, is generated by marijuana. Since it is illegal, it pays no taxes. Obviously the dealers would like to keep it that way, prices high and no taxes.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

The Canadian military is recruiting 12 to 18 year olds for the cadet infantry. Usually we protect the underaged from exploitation by sadistic perverts, but the army is an exception. People in the military pretend they have absolved themselves of all responsibility for their actions. They claim that they kill, not because they get a kick out of killing or making others suffer, but because someone told them too. A likely story. The term infantry is apt for this childish deception.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

The Canadian military likes to buy large numbers of the same model of plane and then stick with them for 50 years. The problem with this approach is the strike force is most of the time 45+ years out of date. Would in not make sense to buy a smaller number of up-to-date planes every decade and gradually phase out the older ones. Surely for many missions, older planes are just fine.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

The Canadian oil industry, through the Manning Centre, a conservative think tank, funded a seminar where Conservative party campaign officials learned how to use Republican Party techniques to suppress the vote with fraudulent robocalls.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64) source

The Canadian press feature photos of every Canadian fatality in the Afghan war. I have looked at these pictures. In the movies, soldiers are dashing, but most of these casualties remind me of overstuffed pigs or toads. It is as though these unappealing losers unconsciously committed a Russian roulette suicide by volunteering for Afghanistan.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

The CBC, for propaganda purposes, repeatedly refers to the Taliban in Afghanistan as insurgents. This is incorrect. I have written them many times about the error. Insurgents are people like the Tamil Tigers rebelling against an established government. The Taliban were the established government before the Canada and the USA invaded and set up the Karzai puppet government. This is analogous to what Hitler did in France in WW II. Thus the proper name for the Taliban is the resistance. A cowardly news organisation could simply use the neutral term Taliban to avoid confronting the propaganda czars.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

The Conservative Party of Canada want to change the law so they can put females in jail who have sex with Justin Bieber.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

The Conservatives and Liberals refer to the slaughter in Afghanistan as “heavy lifting” as if it were some work we were doing on behalf of the people of Afghanistan. We are killing their men, women and children. We are stealing the legacy, lithium used for advanced batteries. We have imposed the crookedest drug lord on the planet, Hamid Karzai on them so we can profit by the trillion dollar a year heroin trade. Heavy lifting, my ass!
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

The definition of poetic justice: Harper drowning in a toilet.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

The F35 is an first-strike attack weapon. Why else does it have stealth? It is not intended for defence. It is designed for attacking countries like Iran. Do we really want to spend that much money to give Harper a wet dream? Attacking Iran is not that important a priority for Canada. We give up far to much.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

The Harper government has been caught in widespread vote tampering in the last federal election in 2011. Not only did the Conservative Party send out fake calls purporting to be from Elections Canada sending opposition voters to non-existent polling stations, they engaged in dozens of other dirty tricks that the Prime Minister learned from Karl Rove. The crookedness is so extensive, that it not clear if the Conservatives really won a majority or if they even won a minority. Very likely Mr. Harper has no mandate at all to ram through controversial measures like the spy-on-everyone bill C-30, or the destruction of the gun registry at the request of the NRA (National Rifle Association). The problem is Mr. Harper has no integrity. If he did, he would resign until the matter were resolved or call an election. If David Johnston, the governor general, had any integrity he too would call an election, but as Harper’s personal pick, he is unlikely to do that.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

The Law Is an Ass
Canadian lawmakers get so rattled with dealing with sex and pornography, they often enact laws that make no sense. Consider that an 18-year old male was sentenced to a six months for distributing child pornography for posting explicit pictures of his 16-year girl friend on a Facebook friends page out of malice. What makes this somewhat nuts is it is apparently legal to have sex with a 16-year old girl but not to look at a naked picture of one. This is what happens when you mix Christian fundamentalist Harper supporters and the law. What the boy did was clearly wrong, but nothing to do with distributing child pornography.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

The Liberals are telling a lie that capitalises on Harper’s unpopularity. They come into a riding like Victoria where Denise Savoie of the NDP is in the lead. They tell people that if they vote NDP , it will split the vote and the Conservative candidate will win. That is not true, if they vote Liberal, it will split the vote and the Conservatives could squeak in, using their money machine. What the Liberals claim is only true in a riding where a Liberal is in the lead, or where a Conservative is in the lead and a Liberal is in the #2 slot.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

The most important function of the CBC is national unity. When Canadians hear daily from other Canadians in other parts of the country, they are much more sympathetic to their problems and much more willing to compromise to make sure it works out for everyone. When you hear the music, festivals and troubles of other people like you, you can’t help but care for them. If the CBC starts merely rebroadcasting excellent British, American or world broadcasts, it will totally lose this function. I don’t think this important benefit merits even a line in Harper’s budget-think.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

The Olympic Games are a frill. They should be privately financed, perhaps largely by the TV advertisers. It is improper to spend public money one them when there are so many much more pressing expenditures.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

The only way for a Canadian Prime Minister to avoid being vilified, betrayed and turned on by his party is to die in office.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

The theme of the Harper government should be “penny wise and pound foolish” The latest bit of idiocy is making visas more difficult to apply for and taking longer. This hacks away at the language school industry and the tourist industry that used to bring in billions of dollars each year.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

There are only about 0.5% of the population homeless in Canada, about 1 in 200. Families manage to support an extra 2 or 3 people, with some strain. So it would be no strain at all for 200 people to band together to support one homeless person at the poverty line. So the reason we don’t end homelessness is not economic. We don’t want to end it. We want the homeless to suffer because we imagine they are so lazy they don’t deserve life. We want them to suffer so badly, that we are willing to pay more for the homeless-tormenting status quo which costs considerably more than providing housing. We persist in this spiteful belief even when we notice that the number of homeless people almost exactly matches the shortfall in affordable housing needed to house everyone. It is like a game of musical chairs.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

There are those who want to keep someone who commits a serious crime while mentally ill forever incarcerated. That makes as much sense as keeping someone in hospital long after they are cured. On the other hand, we need hard statistics on how well we can predict reoffending, not just glib assurances.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

There is one advantage to Canada invading Afghanistan. Young psychopaths, child rapists and sadists sign up with the military to slake their lusts without legal repercussions. Of course, the Afghans do their best to exterminate these scum for us. However, this is quite unfair to the Afghans since we armour these killers with the latest technology so that the soldiers have very little chance of being killed outright. The advantage to Canada is we have fewer serial killers and other undesirables to deal with back home.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Vic Toews, the Federal Minister of Justice, dissembled by saying the Conservatives were not building any new prisons. He claimed the new omnibus bill would not increase the number of prisoners that needed to be housed. The truth is they are building new beds in existing facilities, the equivalent of six new prisons. The Conservatives shovel money to the prison industry that funds them.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

We all know why the USA is occupying Afghanistan:

The Taliban refused Unocal a free right of way for pipeline to the north, strategically important in case Iran blocks the Straits of Hormuz.

The US wants Afghanistan’s four trillion dollars in strategic minerals, particularly lithium, important for high performance batteries.

But why did Canada attack Afghanistan too? Prime Minister of Canada at the time, Jean Chrétien explained that Bush twisted his arm. The deal was if Canada would join in attacking Afghanistan, Bush would let Canada off the hook attacking Iraq in the coming Iraq war. But Bush is gone, why is Canada still pummeling Afghanistan?

Obama, like Bush, is in the pockets of the “defence“ industry. They want a permanent war, as expensive as possible without triggering a taxpayer revolt.

The defence industry in Canada, is known for corruption. Harper is accepting benefits, possibly legally, from them. They want permanent war.

Harper is mentally defective. He is like a child who wants to play general. Having a war to command makes him feel manly and important. His pudginess is a constant source of embarrassment to him. War is his way of dealing with the feelings of inferiority his body generates. Napoléon had similar body image problems with his short stature and deformed hand.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

We Canadians are doing the exact same thing in Afghanistan, naming waging aggressive (first strike) war that we hanged the Nazis for at the end of WW II.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

We Canadians react in horror at Mexican drug cartels executing children. Oddly we don’t bat at eye at our own troops killing thousands of times more children in Afghanistan and Iraq.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

When Canadian soldiers are asked at war crimes tribunal “Why did you slaughter men, women and children in Afghanistan?” They will reply “I dunno. Everybody else was doing it.”. This will sound even lamer than the Nazis with their “I was just following orders”.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

When I listen to the details of police incompetence in the Robert Picton inquiry, I conclude that any serial killer with an IQ above 50 need have no worries about being caught. The only other plausible conclusion is that the police colluded.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

When I was living on a cabin on Quadra Island, CBC radio was my constant companion. When I was snowed in for days at a time, it was my contact with the outside world. The CBC was by far my most important government service. City dwellers can’t possibly appreciate its importance under such circumstances.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Whenever I contemplate Stephen Harper’s fleshy lips, smugly pursed, I cannot help but think everyone in the room with him, under pain of death, is pretending not to notice that he is wearing pink high heels.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Where does Harper get off claiming his budget is designed to create jobs when it fires 19,000 people and cuts the spending that pays indirectly for many more?
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Who would know better than the police chiefs if guns in the hands of the general public increase or decrease crime and harm? The police chiefs in Canada are overwhelmingly in support of gun control. Right now there are half a million illegal arms in Canada. The problem is the current Harper government ideologically does not believe in gun control, but does not have the votes to disband gun control so used the dodge of refusing to levy any penalties for violators.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Why did Canada attack and occupy Afghanistan? In his autobiography, Prime Minister Chrétien explained that Bush twisted his arm and promised that if Canada joined the Afghan war, he would let them off the hook on the planned Iraq war. Chrétien caved to the threat. So the reason Canada is in Afghanistan is cowardice — refusal to stand up to the American bully.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Why would you vote for the Conservative Party of Canada née Canadian Conservative Reform Alliance Party, pronounced see-crap?

You are a fundamentalist Christian. You believe if your bible was good enough for Jesus it is good enough for Canadians and should be forced down the throats of the heathens followed by wallop of castor oil.

You are a bigot and want to make sure those uppity homos are kept in their place, preferably dead.

Your young son is likely going to become serial murderer. He is already eviscerating neighbourhood cats. You want to ship him off to Afghanistan where he can rape, pillage, torture and murder to his heart’s content and still be treated like a national hero.

You are allergic to pollen and you hate mosquitos. If you had your way, all the wetlands and forests would be paved over for condos. Almost nothing matters to you but your investments. You have no kids. You could care less if the world ended the day after you died.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

Cowboys & India?

Stephen Harper doesn’t know the difference between people from India and First Nations people.
~ ShitHarperDid.ca Read about it at CTV

If Godzilla could moonwalk, he couldn’t cause as much damage as Stephen Harper’s back stepping.

The Kelowna accord was a $5 billion breakthrough agreement to improve the quality of health and education for Canada’s First Nation’s Peoples. Harper canceled it in 2006, immediately after taking office.
~ ShitHarperDid.ca Read about it at cbc.ca

If Stephen Harper were your roommate and you bought some mayonnaise, he would put a sticker on it that said ‘Harper’s Mayonnaise’

Harper likes being in power so much, he renamed ‘The Government of Canada’ to ‘The Harper Government’. Creepy right?
~ ShitHarperDid.ca Read about it in the CBC

If you challenged Stephen Harper to a footrace, he would bring a jetpack.

In Spring 2011, a federal court found that Harper’s Conservatives broke election spending laws during the campaign which originally brought them to power in 2006. 4 Conservatives (including 2 Senators) currently face charges and possibly jail time.
~ ShitHarperDid.ca Read about it in the Globe & Mail

If you get a friend request from ‘Ben Dingprivacylaws’, don’t accept. It’s Harper.

On 2011-04-03, Harper had his people lurk a teenager’s Facebook page and then kick her out of an event because she had posed for a photo with the Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff. This should come as no surprise from Harper — he tried and failed (4 times!) to create a law that would allow the government to obtain your personal information from an Internet provider — without a warrant.
~ ShitHarperDid.ca Read about it at cbc.ca

Sometimes, when your friends are convicted of fraud, they deserve a second chance. Harper’s deserve 6.

One of Harper’s top aides, Bruce Carson, had been convicted of 5 counts of fraud. Most recently he was lobbying the government to buy water filtration systems for First Nations communities. He wanted the government to buy the systems from a company where his 22 year old wife was working.
~ ShitHarperDid.ca Read about it in the National Post..

Stephen Harper believes in ‘Greedy Jesus’.

Despite consistently bragging about how Canada&’s economy was a global leader — Harper used the excuse of poor economic times to freeze aid to some of the world’s most impoverished countries. For a claimed Christian this seems very un-Christ like. ‘From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked’Luke 12:48 .
~ ShitHarperDid.ca Read about it in the 680 news.

Stephen Harper believes the apocalypse is coming. Whereas many Canadians believe the apocalypse started 5 years ago.

The Alliance Church, to which Harper has belonged for decades, believes Jesus Christ will return to Earth in an apocalypse, won’t ordain women, strongly opposes abortion and divorce, condemns homosexuality as the most base of sins and believes those who aren’t born-again are ‘lost’.
~ ShitHarperDid.ca Read about it in the Vancouver Sun.

Stephen Harper believes the filthy rich have had it too hard for too long.

Harper’s economic ‘recovery’ favoured the extremely wealthy. Over 321,000 Canadians lost their jobs in 2008 and Canadians’ average wages fell. Meanwhile Canada’s 100 wealthiest persons became richer, reaching an average net worth of $1.7 billion each, up almost 5 per cent from 2008.
~ ShitHarperDid.ca Read about it in the Tyee

Stephen Harper doesn’t want your bad vibes harshing his mellow.

In 2008, Linda Keen President of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission reported that the aging Chalk River nuclear facility was at a risk 1000 times greater than the international average. Harper quickly fired her.
~ ShitHarperDid.ca Read about it in the Toronto Star

Stephen Harper has a recurring dream where he is breastfeeding the CEO (Chief Executive Officer) of a Big Oil Corporation.

In 2007, Harper cut $1.2 billion in spending for the establishment of quality national childcare. However, he never kept his promise to cut the $1.4 billion in tax breaks he gives to oil companies (the wealthiest corporations in history).
~ ShitHarperDid.ca Read about it at CUPE

Stephen Harper is a cold hearted jerk and a horrible detective.

In 2010, Harper eliminated funding for Sisters in Spirit. An internationally praised organization leading investigations into 600 cases of missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls.
~ ShitHarperDid.ca Read about it in the Winnipeg Free Press

Stephen Harper is very good with people. If by ‘good with people’ you mean getting people not to like you.

In order to protect the profits of his friends in Big Oil Stephen Harper has purposely sabotaged global efforts to deal with climate change. He has been so destructive in this regard that in 2009 prominent politicians and scientists called for Canada to be removed from the Commonwealth. This mark of shame had last been used against South Africa when it was still under racist Apartheid rule.
~ ShitHarperDid.ca Read about it in the Guardian UK

Stephen Harper prefers the term ‘Bad Guy Hotels’.

Harper plans to double annual prison spending by 2015 (an increase of $5 billion annually), despite the fact that crime rates have been falling for a decade.
~ ShitHarperDid.ca

Stephen Harper rewrote history… with a racist crayon.

At the 2009 G20 Harper actually said this — ‘We also have no history of colonialism. So we have all of the things that many people admire about the great powers but none of the things that threaten or bother them.’
~ ShitHarperDid.ca Read about it at Rabble

Stephen Harper thinks that what doesn’t kill you can only make you stronger. Unless it kills you.

In 2008, Luc Pomerleau, a biologist at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, discovered secret government plans to weaken regulations and allow corporate food producers to conduct their own safety inspections. Pomerleau leaked the news and was immediately fired. Then the listeriosis meat outbreak killed 17 Canadians.
~ ShitHarperDid.ca Read about it in the Ottawa Citizen

Stephen Harper turned our international reputation from ‘Peacekeeper’ to ‘Torture-Giver’.

‘We detained, and handed over for severe torture, a lot of innocent people.’ in 2009 Canadian Diplomat Richard Colvin shocked the nation with these words. In Afghanistan, Canada captured 6× more prisoners than the British and 20× as many as the Dutch. Colvin explained that ‘Many were just local people: farmers; truck drivers; tailors, peasants… the likelihood is that all the Afghans we handed over were tortured.’
~ ShitHarperDid.ca Read about it in the Globe & Mail

Stephen Harper wants to buy 65 stealth fighter jets with 29 billion of our dollars.

DID YOU HEAR THAT? 65 FIGHTER JETS FOR 29 BILLION DOLLARS!!!
~ ShitHarperDid.ca Read about it in the Globe & Mail
This will cost us $3,500 per family. Afghanistan has no fighter jets, and neither does any country we have ever done peacekeeping in. Where are we supposed to use them? This is a boondoggle. The only reason has Harper to buy them is the kickbacks. Harper is squandering money. Consider the prices of other fighter jets:

F-22 Raptor stealth fighter jet costs $150 million

Sukhoi Su-30MKI costs $35.74 million

Eurofighter Typhoon costs €90 million

Chengdu J-10 costs $27.84 million

Stephen Harper wants you to loosen up and try these chemicals.

Stephen Harper weakened regulations so that more pesticide residue could be left on your fruits and vegetables.
~ ShitHarperDid.ca Read about it in the Canwest News

The majority of the human body is water, the majority of Stephen Harper’s body is cruel.

In the 2011 budget, the Harper government failed to allocate any new funding for drinking water on First Nations reserves. 100 First Nations communities currently have water advisories, including 49 communities which are high risk. Harper also refuses to sign the UN Declaration designating clean water as a human right.
~ ShitHarperDid.ca Read about it in the Rabble

There are just some facts about Canadians that Stephen Harper doesn’t need to know. For instance, most of them.

The census is how our government determines the state and needs of the country. Harper tried to secretly eliminate the long form census so that he could quite literally make uninformed decisions.
~ ShitHarperDid.ca

What some see as egomaniacal, Harper sees as a perfectly normal hallway filled with photos of Stephen Harper.

Harper decorated the government lobby in parliament with photos of just himself, instead of the traditional portraits of former Prime Ministers.
~ ShitHarperDid.ca Read about it in the Ottawa Citizen

The powers of the Prime Minister [of Canada], are greater than any other national leader in the industrialized nations.
~ Jeffrey Simpson (born: 1949-02-17 age: 63) in The Friendly Dictatorship

Stephen Harper is 300 pounds of condemned beef.
~ Mary Walsh (born: 1952-05-15 age: 60)

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