#harpers values

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Jobs eliminated, lives destroyed because of greed.

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Prime Minister Harper you War Monger, are you watching?

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Crime Minister (Official Video) for Stephen Harper of the Harper Government™

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Lives Ruined Because of Government's Privacy Deficit.

It's been a busy few months on privacy issues here at OpenMedia. Our small team has beencampaigning hard on your behalf to secure effective legal protections that safeguard the privacy of every resident of Canada.

Recently we've seen a number of disturbing stories come to light that underline just how important this campaign is. It can sometimes be difficult for everyday Canadians to see privacy as an issue that impacts their everyday lives -- when in fact the human consequences of privacy breaches can be immense.

Here are just a few concrete examples of Canadians who've had their lives turned totally upside down because of this government's privacy deficit.

1. ANDREW -- Toronto businessman blocked from travelling due to dropped accusation from 25 years ago

Andrew, a 42-year-old Toronto businessman, was on his way to a professional conference in the United States last year, when he was denied entry by a U.S. border guard at Toronto's Pearson airport. The reason will astound you - Andrew was told it was because of a DROPPED accusation from over 24 years ago. In 1990, while still in high school, Andrew was investigated but never even charged with possessing marijuana.

A record of the investigation was still kept on the police database, despite his never being charged with an offence. It appears that these sensitive private records were shared, without Andrew's knowledge or consent, with U.S. immigration authorities, resulting in devastating consequences to Andrew's professional career. Now he's unable to visit his many U.S.-based clients.

2. DIANE - Law-abiding Canadian has professional life undermined following privacy breach

Diane is one of over 200 Canadians who recently approached the Toronto Star to say their personal or professional lives have been ruined by police disclosures despite their never breaking the law. In Diane's case she was the victim of a false accusation a number of years ago. The charges were dropped but, despite this, police not only retained records on her, but shared them, without Diane's consent, with a potential employer. She says it took "many hours of anguish" to finally convince police to remove her record and she still lives in fear that these allegations will resurface and restrict her future career opportunities.

3. ELLEN -- Woman suffering from depression blocked from entering U.S. after her private medical records were handed to U.S. authorities

Toronto author Ellen Richardson was all set for the holiday of a lifetime last year -- a Caribbean cruise for which she had paid $6000. She was shocked to be denied entry by a U.S. border guard at Pearson Airport. The U.S. official told her this was because she was hospitalized for depression in 2013. Ellen was, understandably, astounded -- and now Ontario's privacy watchdog is looking into just how her sensitive medical information was handed to U.S. authorities and whether the police may have been involved.

4. LOIS -- among over a dozen Canadians living with mental illness blocked from entering the U.S.

Ellen Richardson isn't the only Canadian to be denied entry to the U.S. due to a private medical condition. Toronto's Lois Kamenitz found herself in a similar position, and wasblocked from entering the U.S. following a suicide attempt many years prior. In fact, over a dozen Canadians complained to Ontario's Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office after Canadian authorities shared their private medical information with U.S. officials. This was done without the consent or even knowledge of the individuals affected -- often, the first time a victim learnt that their privacy had been breached was when they were interviewed at U.S. border control.

So, where does this leave us?

These are just a few examples, but they lay bare the human cost of Canada's privacy deficit. There's a common thread to all these cases: government authorities are collecting personal information on hundreds of thousands of Canadians and then handing it over to third parties, including, most concerningly, U.S. authorities who are not subject to Canadian privacy law.

As Ontario Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian starkly points out, "this ruins lives". And, according to the Toronto Star, there are over 420,000 Canadians who have their information in a police database despite never being convicted -- meaning you or one of your loved ones could easily be among the next victims.

Responsibility for this careless government attitude to our private data rests squarely on the shoulders of Justice Minister Peter MacKay. Despite the real harm being inflicted on Canadians, Minister MacKay remains oblivious to calls to improve our privacy laws. Instead he's moving in the opposite direction, continuing to push reckless online spying legislation (Bill C-13) despite opposition from three quarters of Canadians and a historic Supreme Court ruling that suggests much of the bill is unconstitutional.

Sadly, Minister MacKay's lack of respect for Canadians is symptomatic of a government with a terrible track record on privacy issues. They continue to resist calls to take common sense steps to rein in Canada's out-of-control spy agency CSEC -- an agency that just 8 per cent of Canadians trust with their private information, according to a recent poll. Journalist Glenn Greenwald recently revealed that CSEC was caught red-handed collecting hugely sensitive information about law-abiding Canadian air travellers, and storing our private information in giant, insecure databases to be shared with their U.S. partners at the NSA.

When will the government finally start listening to Canadians and make sure we all have the protections we deserve? You can keep up the pressure by pledging your support for the Privacy Coalition at OurPrivacy.ca and by sending a letter to the editor of your local newspaper at OpenMedia.ca/Letter. With privacy shaping up to be a key issue in the upcoming federal election, it's never been more important to speak up.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/david-christopher-/mackay-privacy-deficit_b_5597417.html

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HARPER A TEA BAGGER KOCH BROS?

**Watch the Video Posted Below this post to see how they try to segregate schools, block people from voting (sound familiar), have no care for the environment and steal from Native Aboriginals***

Two of the richest men in the world, each has a net worth of $40.6 Billion. Their fortune was partly inheireted from their father and from the family business Koch Industries. 

Charles and David both in their 70s, are the financial backers behind the Tea Bag Party in the US. Similar to when Harper and Preston Manning were running the Reform Party. 

We have finally got to see some hard evidence to learn what the values and ideology are for the Koch Brothers. It’s not good, it’s steeped in racism, hate, and intentionally and willfully sets out to marginalize as many citizens as it can,  their ideas are violation after violation of human rights. And too many of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s values are aligned with the Koch Brothers for every Canadian to be absolutely outraged. 

For a better frame of reference as to the type of ideas and mentality of some of the more prominant Tea Bag Party members are Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh. Enough Said? 

Let’s have a look at some of the ideas that are in complete alignment with our Prime Ministers. David Koch ran for Vice-President on the Libertarian ticket in 1980 election. Here are some of the policies he promoted. 

David Koch’s Libertarian 1980 Platform:  “We urge the repeal of federal campaign finance laws, and the immediate abolition of the despotic Federal Election Commission.”

Stephen Harper’s veiw: Harper v Canada - Before he became Prime Minister in 2006, Stephen Harper challenged the spending limits on third parties citing the federal Canada Elections Act violated his free speech. The Supreme Court of Canada in 2004, disagreed. 

David Koch’s Libertarian 1980 Platform: “We favor the abolition of Medicare and Medicaid programs.”

Stephen Harper’s view: There’s his 1997 claim that “the best system means having a system where you have as many tiers as possible and you bring in as many health-care dollars into this country as possible.”

There’s his 2002 assertion that “the private provision of publicly insured services should be permitted. The monopoly of provision of services is not a value that, in and of itself, is worth preserving.”

Or his lament, also in 2002, that the Canada Health Act “rules out private, public-delivery options, It rules out co-payment, pre-payment and all kinds of options that are frankly going to have to be looked at if we’re going to deal with the challenges that the system faces.”

Source: http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2011/04/25/stephen_harpers_most_controversial_quotes_compiled_by_tories.html

David Koch’s Libertarian 1980 Platform: “We oppose any compulsory insurance or tax-supported plan to provide health services, including those which finance abortion services.”

Stephen Harper’s view: “The prime minister says he has no plans to reopen the abortion debate after the Liberals asked Ottawa to intervene to determine whether New Brunswick’s regulations restricting access to the procedure violate the Canada Health Act.

Stephen Harper says the administration of health care is within provincial jurisdiction. Harper made the remarks after an announcement in New Brunswick, where the issue of abortion access has flared up in recent weeks.

The Morgentaler Clinic in Fredericton is planning to close at the end of July, and three Liberal MPs say the province’s refusal to fund the facility may not be in line with the Health Act’s accessibility principle.

The source of contention is a provincial regulation that requires women who want publicly funded abortions to have them done at two approved hospitals and only after they get approval from two doctors certifying it is medically necessary.

Harper also said the Conservatives understand that Canadians have different views on abortion. The remarks were a shot at Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau, who has taken a strong stance in favour of abortion rights, requiring potential candidates to support the party’s position in any vote on the issue in the House of Commons.”

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/05/15/stephen-harper-abortion-trudeau_n_5332358.html

David Koch’s Libertarian 1980 Platform: “We also favor the deregulation of the medical insurance industry.”

Stephen Harper’s view: “Resume provincial responsibility for health care policy. If Ottawa objects to provincial policy, fight in the courts. If we lose, we can afford the financial penalties Ottawa might try to impose under the Canada Health Act. Albertans deserve better than the long waiting periods and technological backwardness that are rapidly coming to characterize Canadian medicine. Alberta should also argue that each province should raise its own revenue for health care — i.e., replace Canada Health and Social Transfer cash with tax points, as Quebec has argued for many years.”(Stephen Harper, ‘Firewall’ letter, January 24, 2001)

David Koch’s Libertarian 1980 Platform: “We favor the repeal of the fraudulent, virtually bankrupt, and increasingly oppressive Social Security system. Pending that repeal, participation in Social Security should be made voluntary.”

Stephen Harper’s view: “OAS is funded primarily through taxes on working people and is unsustainable on its current course,” the Tory message said. “If we do nothing, OAS will eventually become too expensive.”

Source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/harpers-use-of-europes-debt-crisis-as-backdrop-for-speech-no-coincidence/article542482/

David Koch’s Libertarian 1980 Platform: “We propose the abolition of the governmental Postal Service. The present system, in addition to being inefficient, encourages governmental surveillance of private correspondence.  Pending abolition, we call for an end to the monopoly system and for allowing free competition in all aspects of postal service.”

Steven Harper’s view: Between 2005 and 2010 Canada Post was led by Moya Greene, a CEO with deep experience in privatization. At a time when the corporation was still financially healthy, she tried to persuade the government to allow it to sell a minority interest to the public, giving it an infusion of capital for innovation and opening the doors to a more entrepreneurial culture.

It was not to be. The Conservatives, supposedly the champions of more flexible, responsive government, didn’t want the political headache. Instead, Canada Post got the green light to borrow and invest billions in a “transformation” program to update the delivery of its traditional services (moving letters and parcels) and introducing an “ePost” digital offering that duplicated any number of private online services.

Greene soon moved on to head Britain’s Royal Mail, where she is overseeing a privatization plan of the type that has become routine in the most advanced European countries. As many have pointed out, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands have privatized and seen costs fall. Others, such as Sweden, have kept their publicly owned postal services but introduced more competition. The results have been better service for the public — and, importantly, more secure jobs for employees. The Harper government, in contrast, allowed Canada Post to drift until it started hemorrhaging money (losses topped $100 million in the last quarter alone, and by one estimate could reach $1 billion a year by 2020). Its pension obligations are crippling, and as Warren has pointed out, it has lost an astounding $4.6 billion in equity value since 2008. It’s been heading for the iceberg at top speed.

Source: http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/2013/12/15/harper_government_stood_by_and_let_canada_post_sink_editorial.html

David Koch’s Libertarian 1980 Platform:  “We oppose all personal and corporate income taxation, including capital gains taxes.”

Stephen Harper’s view: During the election campaign, the Conservatives promised to make all capital gains exempt from taxation, as long as the funds were reinvested within a six month period.  The proposal was widely criticized by economists because of difficulties in implementation as well its prohibitive cost.

David Koch’s Libertarian 1980 Platform: “We support the abolition of the Environmental Protection Agency.”

Stephen Harper’s view: More than $100 million in cuts are underway at the federal department in charge of protecting Canada’s water and oceans, despite recommendations from top bureaucrats that it needs to increase spending for both environmental and economic reasons.

According to internal federal briefing notes obtained by Postmedia News, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government is eliminating about 500 jobs at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans related to Coast Guard services, patrols to stop illegal fishing activities as well as scientific research to promote conservation, protect endangered species, and prevent industrial water pollution.

The cuts, part of the federal government’s efforts to eliminate its deficit, cover 26 different areas of the department which has a workforce of about 10,000 employees. The downsizing also includes the shutdown of federal libraries and millions of dollars in reductions to climate change adaptation programs. In total, the department estimates it will cut about $80 million per year from its budget by 2014-15, and over $100 million per year in the following fiscal year.

But the cuts coincide with internal advice from top bureaucrats that the government should instead be increasing its spending in the department to protect both economic and environmental interests, particularly for Coast Guard services which are facing cuts equivalent to about $20 million by 2014-15 and 300 full-time jobs.

Federal Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq set aside a proposal from her department earlier this year to publicly state that the Harper government recognized scientific evidence that humans were “mostly responsible for climate change” and that it took this threat “seriously.”

Environment Canada proposed that she make these comments in response to a major report released in September by an international panel of scientists, including Canadians, that was created in 1988 to assess the latest peer-reviewed literature about global warming. The federal department’s recommended message was part of a proposed communications strategy, obtained by Postmedia News under access to information legislation, to raise awareness about the impacts of the consumption of fossil fuels such as oil and gas and other human activity linked by scientists to global warming.

It proposed that she say that the Canadian government “takes climate change seriously, and recognizes the scientific findings that conclude that human activities are mostly responsible for this change.”

David Koch’s Libertarian 1980 Platform: “We support abolition of the Department of Energy.”

Stephen Harper’s view: It’s not often that Canadian industry gets exactly what it wants from federal policy-makers. But that appears to be what happened for Canada’s oil and gas firms in last year’s Conservative budget.

Prior to the budget’s release, in early March 2012 the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) -- a major lobby group representing Canada’s oil and gas players -- wrote to Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver, proposing an overhaul of the National Energy Board Act.

 The Act had so far required NEB decision-makers to ensure two conditions were met before it granted an export license:

One, that the proposed oil or gas export project would not hurt Canada’s energy security. And two, that any environmental and social impacts related to the project be addressed in a public hearing.

Canada’s largest oil and gas lobby group asked Minister Oliver to limit the NEB’s mandate, so it would only have to consider the question of energy security during an export license application, and not any other potentially harmful impacts.

CAPP cited Kitimat LNG’s experience in 2011. That project, CAPP argued, was “delayed because the NEB elected to address environmental and First Nations consultation issues.”

Such issues, it wrote, “should be considered elsewhere in the regulatory process.”

Minister Oliver appeared to agree with Canada’s oil and gas industry. The Conservative government’s 2012 budget contained major changes to the National Energy Board Act, ones closely matching what CAPP had requested.

David Koch’s Libertarian 1980 Platform: “We call for the dissolution of all government agencies concerned with transportation, including the Department of Transportation.”

Transport Canada has deleted references to protecting the “environment” from its website in support of a proposed overhaul to a law that was designed to protect navigable waters.

The environmental issues were highlighted in a background web page explaining the role of the Navigable Waters Protection Act and the government’s commitment to consulting Canadians to review its effectiveness.

The page previously explained how the legislation, first adopted in 1882, triggered federal environmental reviews of projects that threatened to disrupt bodies of water.

Moments after Raitt, the former labour minister, was named, her new department, Transport Canada, sent Postmedia News a statement that confirmed it overspent on budgets in 2012-2013 for its “internal services.” The department said this could include spending on communications, legal, financial or information technology services.

But following the publication of this story, Transport Canada sent Postmedia News a clarification stating that it spent a lower percentage of its budget than what was estimated by the Parliamentary Budget Officer, and that, as a result, it had not exceeded its budget in this category of spending.

The original statement was in response to a list of questions submitted last week by Postmedia News about the department’s response to the derailment that took the lives of dozens after the runaway train, owned by the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic railway company crashed and exploded in the small Quebec town.

Postmedia News had reported that Parliament’s budget watchdog had estimated the department failed to spend millions of dollars that were budgeted for rail, aviation, marine and road transportation safety.

The department declined to directly respond to a question asking it to explain an apparent contradiction over its claims that the auditor general had granted it an extension on delivering improvements to its oversight of transportation safety following a 2011 audit.

The auditor general’s office issued its own statement last week denying it had granted any extensions, explaining that timelines were based on Transport Canada’s “own decision” and that the department was accountable for not meeting commitments to fix weaknesses by April 2013.

“These stiff new penalties reflect the government’s ongoing concern towards maintaining the safety of public navigation and the environment,” said a portion of the website that was removed this week.

“For taxpayers, however, it’s a rip-off. And it has nothing to do with gender. Both men and women taxpayers will pay additional money to both men and women in the civil service. That’s why the federal government should scrap its ridiculous pay equity law.”

- Stephen Harper on pay equity, NCC Overview, Fall 1998.

David Koch’s Libertarian 1980 Platform: “We support an end to all subsidies for child-bearing built into our present laws, including all welfare plans and the provision of tax-supported services for children.”

Stephen Harper’s view: “There is a dependence in the region that breeds a culture of defeatism,” (Stephen Harper, CBC News, May 30, 2002)

“I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome. …Atlantic Canada’s culture of defeat will be hard to overcome as long as Atlantic Canada is actually physically trailing the rest of the country.” (Stephen Harper, New Brunswick Telegraph Journal, May 29, 2002)

“There’s unfortunately a view of too many people in Atlantic Canada that it’s only through government favours that there’s going to be economic progress, or that’s what you look to …That kind of can’t-do attitude is a problem in this country but it’s obviously more serious in regions that have had have-not status for a long time.” (Stephen Harper, Toronto Sun, May 31, 2002)

“I’ve taken my position and frankly it’s the same position that I took all through the [Alliance] leadership race. I delivered [speeches] everywhere I went, including in the Maritime provinces on several occasions, about the spirit of defeatism in the country and what drives it and how we have to address it.” (Stephen Harper, National Post, May 31, 2002)

Prime Minister Stephen Harper “smirked” and told Kathleen Wynne in a private meeting that Canadians need to save for their own retirement because‎ it’s not up to government to look after them, the Star has learned.

“Whether Canada ends up as one national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion… And whether Canada ends up with one national government or two governments or ten governments, the Canadian people will require less government no matter what the constitutional status or arrangement of any future country may be.” - Speech to the Colin Brown Memorial Dinner, National Citizens Coalition, 1994

1993 - 1996 As a Reform MP, was active on constitutional issues and played a prominent role within the Reform Party drafting the party’s position on the 1995 Quebec referendum. Also took positions against spousal benefits for same-sex couples and gun control. Despite his prominent position in the party however, Harper’s relationship with Preston Manning, the Reform Party leader, was strained, culminating when Harper resigned his parliamentary seat on January 14, 1997.

1997 - 2001 Soon after resigning his seat, Harper was named president of the National Citizens Coalition (NCC), a conservative think-tank and advocacy group. There he advocated for an alliance of the conservative parties; supported Conrad Black’s purchase of the a newspaper chain, arguing that he would provide a “pluralistic” editorial view to counter the “monolithically liberal and feminist” approach of previous management; launched an ultimately unsuccessful battle against federal election laws restricting third-party advertising; and led several campaigns against the Canadian Wheat Board.

In 1997, Harper delivered a controversial speech for a conservative American think tank in which he said, “Canada is a northern european welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it”, “if you’re like all Americans, you know almost nothing except for your own country. Which makes you probably knowledgeable about one more country than most Canadians”, and “the NDP [New Democratic Party] is kind of proof that the Devil lives and interferes in the affairs of men.”

In 2000 Harper penned several controversial pieces including the “Alberta Agenda” in which he called on the province to reform publicly-funded health care, the Canada Pension Plan, and “build firewalls around Alberta” in order to stop the federal government from redistributing its wealth to less affluent regions. Later that year, Harper also wrote an editorial praising the values of Alberta while Canada “appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country”.

2001 - 2004 Throughout 2001, Stockwell Day, the leader of the Canadian Alliance Party of Canada, the former Reform Party of Canada, was facing increasing criticism. Bowing to pressure in early 2002, Day called a new Canadian Alliance leadership race in which Stephen Harper emerged as Day’s main rival. In his bid for the Canadian Alliance leadership, Harper described his potential support base as “similar to what George Bush tapped”.

After winning the party leadership, Harper announced his intention to run for parliament in a by-election in Calgary Southwest, and officially became Leader of the Opposition in May 2002. Later in the same month, Harper said that the Atlantic Provinces were trapped in “a culture of defeat”. The Legislature of Nova Scotia unanimously approved a motion condemning Harper’s comments which were also criticized by New Brunswick Premier Bernard Lord, federal Progressive Conservative leader Joe Clark and others. Harper refused to apologize, and said that much of Canada was trapped by the same “can’t-do” attitude.

As opposition leader Harper was largely devoted to building a union between the Canadian Alliance and the federal Progressive Conservatives. In October, 2003, despite his public promise to not merge with the Alliance, Progressive Conservative leader Peter MacKay reached an agreement with Stephen Harper merging the two parties and created the new Conservative Party of Canada. Harper won the Conservative leadership election soon after on March 20, 2004.

2004 to present Shortly after becoming leader, Stephen Harper led the new Conservative Party of Canada into the 2004 federal election. After moving into the lead for a time, inappropriate comments from Conservative MPs, and leaked press releases slandering the then Prime Minister, caused Harper’s party to lose some momentum. In the end, the Liberal Party was re-elected with a minority government, with the Conservatives coming in second place.

In 2005-2006, Stephen Harper won his first federal election and formed a minority Conservative government in February, 2006. After the election he tried to get rid of same-sex marriages but due to lack of support flip-flopped on the issue. He started using the RCMP as his personal gestapo squad, backed down on Kyoto and denied the existence of climate change in Canada, threatened to sell the CBC, censored homosexuality and violence in Canadian films, and has basically ignored issues like poverty, health care and the economy.

In October 2008 Stephen Harper held another election which cost Canadians $300 million CDN and won another minority government, enlarging the size of his caucus slightly.

During the first week of December 2008 Harper decided to prorogue parliament when his government lost the confidence of the House of Commons due to his lack of an economic plan and was going to be replaced by a Coalition government composed of the Liberals and NDP. It was the first time a Prime Minister had ever prorogued parliament in order to save his political career. The delay means he has until January 2009 to come up with a compromise and a new budget.

“There is a dependence in the region that breeds a culture of defeatism,” (Stephen Harper, CBC News, May 30, 2002)

“I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome. …Atlantic Canada’s culture of defeat will be hard to overcome as long as Atlantic Canada is actually physically trailing the rest of the country.” (Stephen Harper, New Brunswick Telegraph Journal, May 29, 2002)

“There’s unfortunately a view of too many people in Atlantic Canada that it’s only through government favours that there’s going to be economic progress, or that’s what you look to …That kind of can’t-do attitude is a problem in this country but it’s obviously more serious in regions that have had have-not status for a long time.” (Stephen Harper, Toronto Sun, May 31, 2002)

“I’ve taken my position and frankly it’s the same position that I took all through the [Alliance] leadership race. I delivered [speeches] everywhere I went, including in the Maritime provinces on several occasions, about the spirit of defeatism in the country and what drives it and how we have to address it.” (Stephen Harper, National Post, May 31, 2002)

“As prime minister, I will take up this issue [fiscal imbalance]…I will not try to fix this with another one-off, side-deal with this or any other province. I will bring the provinces together so we can achieve real, substantial, and I might add final, progress on this matter. And I mean final. When we reach agreement, [it] will commit more dollars to the provinces through a comprehensive review of spending and taxing powers.” (Stephen Harper, Cambridge Chamber of Commerce Speaking Notes, April 15, 2005)

“It is imperative to take the initiative, to build firewalls around Alberta, to limit the extent to which an aggressive and hostile federal government can encroach upon legitimate provincial jurisdiction.” (Stephen Harper, National Post, January 24, 2001)

“If Ottawa giveth, then Ottawa can taketh away… This is one more reason why Westerners, but Albertans in particular, need to think hard about their future in this country. After sober reflection, Albertans should decide that it is time to seek a new relationship with Canada. …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, led by a second-world strongman appropriately suited for the task …Having hit a wall, the next logical step is not to bang our heads against it. It is to take the bricks and begin building another home – a stronger and much more autonomous Alberta. It is time to look at Quebec and to learn. What Albertans should take from this example is to become “maitres chez nous”. (Stephen Harper, National Post, December 8, 2000)

“Now ‘pay equity’ has everything to do with pay and nothing to do with equity. It’s based on the vague notion of ‘equal pay for work of equal value,’ which is not the same as equal pay for the same job.”

- Stephen Harper, NCC Overview, Fall 1998.

“You have to remember that west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from Eastern Canada; people who live in ghettos and are not integrated into Western Canadian society.”

- Conservative leader Stephen Harper, in Report Newsmagazine, 2001.

“Rob is a true reformer and a true conservative. He has been a faithful supporter of mine and I am grateful for his work.”

- Stephen Harper endorsing Calgary West Conservative MP Rob Anders, who in 2001 called Nelson Mandela “a Communist and terrorist.”

“It’s the idea that we just have to go along, we can’t change it, things won’t change. I think that’s the sad part, the sad reality traditional parties have bred in parts of Atlantic Canada.”

- Conservative leader Stephen Harper talks about the Atlantic provinces, May 2002.

“It will come as no surprise to anybody to know that I support the traditional definition of marriage as a union of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others, as expressed in our traditional common law.”

- Stephen Harper, Hansard, Address in the House of Commons on Bill C-38, February 16, 2005.

"It is simply difficult – extremely difficult – for someone to become bilingual in a country that is not. And make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it less bilingual today than it has ever been... So there you have it. As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.”

- Stephen Harper on bilingualism, Calgary Sun, May 6th 2001. 

“I think it’s a typical hidden agenda of the Liberal party... They had the courts do it for them, they put the judges in they wanted, then they failed to appeal -- failed to fight the case in court... I think the federal government deliberately lost this case in court and got the change to the law done through the back door.”

- Stephen Harper, attacking the Liberals on same-sex marriage by claiming a conspiracy, News Hound, September 7th 2003.

“Well, I’ve always believed that we have to be a lot tougher with undocumented refugee claimants. Whether the best thing is to send them right out of the country or simply detain them until we get full information, we can look at either but, no this is a problem that does need to be fixed. Particularly post 9/11, we can’t take these kinds of security risks.”

- Stephen Harper, CHML Radio AM 900 Hamilton, June 3, 2004.

“Withdraw from the Canada Pension Plan... Collect our own revenue from personal income tax... Resume provincial responsibility for health-care policy. If Ottawa objects to provincial policy, fight in the courts... [E]ach province should raise its own revenue for health... It is imperative to take the initiative, to build firewalls around Alberta... “

- Stepehen Harper in an “Open letter to Ralph Klein,” January 24th 2001.

“This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based on focus groups. We will not take a stand based on phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of pubic opinion... In my judgment Canada will eventually join with the allied coalition if war on Iraq comes to pass. The government will join, notwithstanding its failure to prepare, its neglect in co-operating with its allies, or its inability to contribute. In the end it will join out of the necessity created by a pattern of uncertainty and indecision. It will not join as a leader but unnoticed at the back of the parade.”

- Stepehen Harper indicating that, if elected, Canada will join the US occupation of Iraq, Hansard, January 29th 2003.

“Stephen Harper not only opposes Kyoto, but he refutes the science. He’s back in the dinosaur era. Harper is just totally out of it.”

- David Suzuki on Canadian Alliance leader Stephen Harper, 2003.

“Kyoto is essentially a socialist scheme to suck money out of wealth-producing nations.” written in 2002

Investors Prefer doing business with Hugo Chavez of Venezuela over billionaire Koch Brothers

http://exiledonline.com/bond-markets-prefer-hugo-chavez-socialism-to-koch-industries-parasitism/

Harper’s Venezuela Insult Shows Right Ideology

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=9848

Koch Brothers Canadian Educational Think Tank posting articles on HuffPost Canada

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/malkin-dare/canadian-education_b_4670357.html

Koch Brothers Educational Think Tank posting articles on CBC

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/student-tuition-is-there-really-a-crisis-1.2626185

Canadian Minig company accused of using slave labour

http://www.canadianbusiness.com/global-report/the-slaves-of-eritrea/

Why would Canada spy on Brazil mining and energy officials?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/why-would-canada-spy-on-brazil-mining-and-energy-officials-1.1931465

****Awesome Video in link above, I am not sure who the journalist is, but she gives the Minister the gears****

Canada PM expresses concern over spying in Brazil

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/10/08/328345/canada-pm-concerned-over-spy-report/

United Nations says Canada’s Human Rights Violations have increased dramatically under Stephen Harpers government

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsqg9DiyrnM

Disporportionate number of women killed in Canada aboriginal: RCMP

http://globalnews.ca/news/1335731/live-rcmp-news-conference-about-murdered-missing-aboriginal-women/