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.
Because Stephen Harper doesn't want your bad vibes harshing his mellow.
Read more at:
www.thestar.com/article/298408
Sometimes, when your friends are convicted of fraud, they deserve a 2nd 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.
Read more at:
news.nationalpost.com/...ign-trail/
Stephen Harper has a recurring dream where he is breastfeeding the CEO of a Big Oil Corporation.
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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).
Read more at:
cupe.ca/child-care/Har...billion_ch
When Stephen Harper says he's listening to 'Canadians' he really means his secret friend, Ken.
In 2006, Harper said none of his staff would 'get rich lobbying a future Conservative government.' But then his Senior Policy Adviser Ken Boessenkool did just that. He has lobbied Harper on behalf of pharmaceutical giant Merck Frost, law-breaking Egyptian telecom corp Globalive, oil criminal Enbridge and Taser International (right after the Taser murder of Robert Dziekanski sparked international outrage).
Read about Taser & Merck at CTV...
toronto.ctv.ca/servlet...ub=Toronto
If Stephen Harper was your roomate and you bought some mayonnaise, he would put a sticker on it that said 'Harper's Mayonnaise'
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Harper likes being in power so much, he renamed 'The Government of Canada' to 'The Harper Government'. Creepy right?
Read about it at CBC...
www.cbc.ca/news/politi...brand.html
Stephen Harper thinks that what doesn't kill you can only make you stronger. Unless it kills you.
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In 2008, Luc Pomerleau, a biologist at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, discovered secret government plans to weaken regulations & 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.
Read about Luc Pomerleau in The Ottawa Citizen...
www.canada.com/topics/...2e5e686e2a
Stephen Harper turned our international reputation from 'Peacekeeper' to 'Torture-Giver'.
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'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 6x more prisoners than the British and 20x 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.'
Read about the torture in the Globe & Mail...
www.theglobeandmail.co...le1369069/
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.
Read about it in The Guardian UK...
www.guardian.co.uk/env...ate-change
Stephen Harper wants to prevent scientists from saying things he will make them regret.
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In 2009, Harper appointed a Minister of Science who refused to say whether he believed in evolution. Harper then cut science research funding by $138 Million (while the US invested $2.75 Billion). Since 2007 Harper has forced scientists at Environment Canada to get permission to do interviews, often screening their answers. As a result media coverage of climate change science was reduced by 80%.
Read about the evolution scandal at The CBC...
www.cbc.ca/news/techno...ution.html
At the 2010 G20 summit in Toronto, Harper spent $1.9 million building a fake lake and nearly $1 Billion on security for the 3 day event. 1,105 arrests were made - the largest mass arrest in Canadian history. Only 99 criminal charges were laid. So everyone else was arrested, you know, just 'cuzStephen Harper loves handcuffs
Read about the arrests in The Toronto Star...
www.thestar.com/news/a...wer-on-g20