This is an email received from Mary
Cote-Walkden and posted on Facebook by Enough Harper. Harper and his puppets in Canada are moving to shut down free speech, so I am reposting to make sure that when (not if) Harper shuts down the Facebook page the message can still get out.
Dear Mr. Harper:
I am writing to you to request that
when you speak in the house and to the public, that you no longer use the
phrase ‘what the Canadian people want’ or any variation thereof. I can attest
to the fact that you do not speak for me, nor for any member of my household,
and therefore, you are not speaking with knowledge of what ‘the Canadian people
want’. What THIS Canadian wants is for you to explain to me where the
transparency and accountability lies in the following issues:
- Archives ‘cleansing’ – The Harper
government is working through the Canadian Archives, destroying things that
don’t quite agree with their position, effectively politically rewriting our
history.
- Consultation Fees -- $2.4Billion was
spent on unspecified, undefined, unaccounted for ‘consultation’.
- Lost money -- $3.1Billion was ‘lost’
dollars designated for National Security.
- Illegal contributions – this time
from those receiving patronage appointments (ie IE directors) who are legally
forbidden from making political contributions, but who made $37,000 of them
anyway.
- Duffy Affair – Senator Duffy charged
excessively on his expense accounts, was found to be dishonest in his claims
yet he faced no consequence. The repayment does not negate the offence.
- Nigel Wright payment – where did the
$90,000 come from, who ordered it, who knew about it, why was it allowed, why
was a senate report doctored to hide the fact that Duffy had been fraudulently
charging taxpayers and why has no one been fired over this situation? (Not some
$30,000 a year PMO worker; someone with authority and substance)
- Legal counsel for Nigel Wright – who
drew up any documents used with regard to the loan/gift/payment to Michael
Duffy, and was any PMO counsel resource used for this purpose.
- CBC Control – The Harper government
announced that they will be taking over the appointing of staff to the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation, effectively taking control over the news and the way
it is presented to the public, providing them with more political spin at
public expense.
- Temporary Foreign Workers Scandal
with Royal Bank and other large corporations for the importing of foreign
workers to replace Canadian workers with Canadian government oversight
approval.
- Bail-In Provision snuck through to
allow government access to personal savings accounts to settle government debts
(2013)
- Long Gun Registry – stopped then
reinstated (April 2013) with increased registration fees for restricted weapons
and the yearly renewing of license for long guns
- Robocalls (2012) – issuing fake,
misleading calls to actively interfere with voting public
- Canada Action Plan ad campaign Part
1-- $26M taxpayer dollars over 3 months for programs already ended in order to
promote conservative party interests.
- Canada Action Plan ad campaign Part
2 – while unemployment, particularly student unemployment, rises steadily,
Harper continues his Canada Action Plan ads at high-cost events, for no purpose
other than pre-campaigning.
- ETS Scandal – An IT contract was
unfairly awarded to CGI, a known association of Michael Fortier, the then PWGSC
Minister in a clear conflict of interest. No fairness monitor was appointed to
oversee the process, reported scores by evaluators did not coincide with what
they had issued, the evaluation team was advised to destroy all records
relating to the evaluation, the government refused to debrief companies that
had lost the award, the Canadian International Trade Tribunal ruled against the
government, and the government’s response was angry denial and to appoint a new
federal crown prosecutor (a former Conservative candidate) to charge the
unsuccessful companies involved in the bid process with big-rigging – a charge
still unproven but the case continues four years after the fact.
- CFIA (2012) – food inspection
services cut, listeriosis outbreak, Minister Gerry Ritz’s tasteless jokes about
deaths from outbreak.
- Prorogation – Part 1 (to avoid
Contempt of Parliament fallout)
- Prorogation – Part 2 (to avoid
NDP/Liberal coalition government)
- Shoe Store Project (2007) – plans
for a $2M government controlled media center, run by the PMO to replace the
National Press Gallery, run by the national press.
- Julie Couillard Scandal (2007) –
Maxime Bernier leaves sensitive NATO documents at ex-girlfriend’s house, a
woman with known ties to the Hells Angels
- In and Out (2007) – Circumnavigation
of election finance rules in 2006 election. $230,000 in fines issued for
violating spending laws
- Plagiarizing – Part 1 (2007) you
plagiarized Australia’s John Howard’s speech about Iraq
- Plagiarizing – Part 2 (2008) from
Ontario Mike Harris’ speech
- Repatriation scandal – issued orders
that military personnel killed in combat would not receive repatriation
attention or coverage and no flags would be at half-mast
- Scrums – all media scrums in
Parliament were forbidden. Press statements would be issued when the government
feels they are necessary, effectively stifling the press.
- Chuck Cadman scandal – offered a
bribe for the vote in parliament, then lied under oath about it and the tape evidence
of the bribe
- Senior Federal Scientists Gagged –
they are not allowed to speak to media without government permission... still
in effect
- Long-form Census stopped, cutting
access to valuable statistics
- Unfair labor conditions for
government workers-- Suspended Federal civil servants’ right to strike
- Abuse of RCMP during election --
Limiting access of press to PM during election by misusing RCMP to restrict
access at private events
- Omnibus bill to pass non-financial
bills with budget, making it impossible to reject pieces of the overall bill,
thereby circumventing parliamentary process in the passing on individual bills.
(Ironically something Stephen Harper as leader of the opposition was adamantly
opposed to as being undemocratic)
- Afghan Detainees Scandal
- Military planes scandal -- Withheld
financial information from parliament and parliamentary committees about costs
of military planes
- Improper procedure for fighter plane
procurement-- Neglected the bid process in awarding of a contract on fighter
plane procurement.
- Whistleblower scandal – Christiane
Ouimet, integrity commissioner, turned down investigations into 227
whistleblower allegations. She was quietly dismissed with a $500,000 exit
payment and gag order.
- Rebranding Canadian Government as
Harper Government on communications documents
- Interference in the 2008 US
Presidential election
- $54,000 taxpayer money spent on
2-day oil lobbyretreat in UK (2011)
- Withdrawal from Kyoto
- G8/G20 Fake Lake Scandals
- Interfering with collective
bargaining -- Ordering striking unions back to work: Canada Post, Air Canada,
- Breaking your own new set election
date law
- Over 1700 patronage appointments
- Pulling Canada out of UN
anti-drought initiative
- Contempt of Parliament – refused to
turn over documents on Afghan detainee affair and later refused to submit to a
parliamentary request regarding costing of his programs
- Issuing a 200-page handbook to
committee heads advising them on how to disrupt their committees.
- Reneging on promise to allow
parliamentary committees to select their own chairs.
- Dictating an order that staffers to
cabinet ministers do not have to testify before committees
- Ordering all government
communications to be vetted by his office or the Privy Council Office
- Putting Conservative party logos on
stimulus funding cheques that were paid out of the public purse.
- Had party affiliates write on-line
posts, using false names, to attack journalists.
- In Charlottetown in 2007, he had the
police remove reporters from a hotel lobby where a party caucus meeting was
being held
- Attempted to tar the reputation of
diplomat Richard Colvin for contradicting their position on the afghan
detainees situation.
- Defence Minister Gordon O’Connor
mislead the House regarding the afghan detainees situation, had to apologize
and later resigned
- Terminated Peter Tinsley, the
Military Police Complaints Commissioner, when he started to investigate the
afghan detainee situation.
- Mudslinging -- Before his leadership,
personal attack ads were used, relatively sparingly, only during election
season instead of every day regardless of election cycle.
- Fossil of the Day awards (x3) were
awards to John Baird, as minister of the environment, at the UN Cancun climate
conference (Dec 2010) awarded by more than 400 leading organizations, to the
countries that do the most to disrupt or undermine UN climate talks, citing
that Baird and the Canadian government were‘working against progressive
legislation to address climate change” by“cancelling support for clean energy
and for failing to have any plan to meet its very weak target for reducing
Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions.”
- Bev Oda – misleading Parliament,
mishandled CIDA requests for KAIROS group, overspending (has paid back
$4,025.26 to taxpayers)
- Maxime Bernier – 2 ethics
investigations for conflict of interest
- Peter Penashue – election
overspending, ineligible donations
- John Duncan – improperly lobbied a
tax judge
- Bruce Carson – violating lobbying
regulations/influence peddling
- Dimitri Soudas – Communications
Director for PM questioned over kickback scandal involving Montreal Port
Authority
- Jim Flaherty – Finance Minister
improperly interfered with CRTC regarding the issuing of a broadcast licence
- Dean Del Mastro – Elections Canada
investigation of overspending, etc.
- Arthur Porter – Harper appointee as
Canada spy agency watchdog wanted for $1.3B fraud
- Lisa Raitt – left sensitive
documents in public AND made the‘cancer is sexy’ comment
- Jason Kenney – used MP stationery
for party fundraising
- Rahim Jaffer and Helene Guergis –
aids writing letters to papers pretending to be citizens, influence peddling
(him), letting her husband use her office, mortgage transgressions, and the
Charlottetown Airport meltdown
- Peter MacKay – using military
transportation for personal use
- Vic Towes – abusive language and
‘you’re either with us or against us with child pornography’ statement
- Sebastien Togneri, Agop Evereklian,
Giulio Maturi, Dale Saip and Kasra Nejatian all involved in ethics
transgressions
- Rona Ambrose – told a parliamentary
committee that Canada had paid its debt under the Kyoto Protocol but it was
later pointed out that it was still unpaid. She refused to add spotted owls, of
which there were only 17, needed no special protection. As Minister responsible
for the Status of Women, voted for a motion to revisit the Canadian Criminal
Code regarding abortion.
- John Baird – Used his cabinet post
to interfere with the 2006 Ottawa city mayoral election and the light rail
transit system in that city.
- Tony Clement -- $50M originally
intended for the G8 meeting and border issues was used instead in his riding,
with no supporting paperwork
- Mike Duffy – improperly collecting
housing allowances
- Patrick Brazeau – improperly
collecting housing allowances and facing assault and sexual assault charges
- Pamela Wallin – travel and other
expenses being audited for irregularities
- 58 senate appointments, 100% from
the conservative party despite election promises of not appointing any senators
or other patronage appointments.
- In a variety of punitive ways,
Harper moved against NGOs, independent agencies, watchdog groups, and tribunals
who showed signs of differing with his intent. In some cases he fired their
directors or stacked their boards with partisans. In others, he sued them or
cut their funding. The targets of such tactics included the Rights and
Democracy group, Elections Canada, Veterans’ Ombudsman Pat Stogran, Budget
Officer Kevin Page and many more. His party’s smear tactics included labelling
the Liberal party anti-Israel, calling Dalton McGuinty the small man of
Confederation, trying to link Liberal MP Navdeep Bains to terrorism, and
calling for reprisals against academics such as the University Ottawa’s Michael
Behiels for questioning their policies. - Two months after the federal
election, Stephen Harper privately met with Bloc Québécois leader Gilles
Duceppe and New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton in a Montreal hotel. On
September 9, 2004, the three signed a letter addressed to then-Governor General
Adrienne Clarkson, stating, “We respectfully point out that the opposition
parties, who together constitute a majority in the House, have been in close
consultation. We believe that, should a request for dissolution arise this
should give you cause, as constitutional practice has determined, to consult
the opposition leaders and consider all of your options before exercising your
constitutional authority.” – you can never raise the issue of coalitions again
with derision. You used that ticket yourself, so any mention of it is entirely
disingenuous.
- "When a government starts
trying to cancel dissent or avoid dissent is frankly when it's rapidly losing
its moral authority to govern." -- Stephen Harper. You, Sir, need to apply
this to your own leadership.
- “We don't think as a party that
patronage has any place in the Parliament of Canada." Stephen Harper,
Calgary Herald, March 22, 1995 -- see the above noted 1700+ patronage
appointments you have made.
- "We don't support any Senate
appointments." Stephen Harper, Winnipeg Free Press, January 29, 1996 --
Singing a different song now, Mr. Prime Minister?
- "Stephen Harper will cease
patronage appointments to the Senate. Only candidates elected by the people
will be named to the Upper House." Stephen Harper Leadership Website,
January 15, 2004 – patently a lie told in order to win votes.
- "…the Upper House remains a
dumping ground for the favoured cronies of the Prime Minister." Stephen
Harper Leadership Website, January 15, 2004 – You wrote the book on this one,
sir.
- "I don't plan to appoint
senators; that's not my intention." Stephen Harper, Cornwall
Standard-Freeholder, January 14, 2006 -- I won’t flog this dead horse any
longer.
- “I, too, am one of these angry
westerners ... We may love Canada but Canada does not love us ... Let's make
(Alberta) strong enough that the rest of the country is afraid to threaten us.”
Report Newsmagazine, December 2000. – you do love this east vs west scenario.
It’s growing tired. The only discourse between east and west is the one you are
creating in your spin room.
- “You've got 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 ghettoes and who are not integrated into western Canadian society.” Report
Newsmagazine, January 2001 – this explains a lot.
- “Let's face it, the average
backbench MP is little more than a bench warmer for his/her political
party.”Letter to The National Post, February 1998. – just the way you like it,
Sir? It seems you still want your backbenchers to only follow the party line
and who cares what their constituents might want or need.
- Then… there was this: The time for
accountability has arrived. Canadians will soon be able to finally hold the
Liberals accountable. After 12 years in power, the Liberals must be held
accountable for the stolen money; accountable for the broken trust, and
accountable for all that they failed to accomplish because of this government’s
total preoccupation with scandal and damage control.
For those Canadians seeking
accountability the question is clear: which party can deliver the change of
government that’s needed to ensure political accountability in Ottawa?
We need a change of government to
replace old style politics with a new vision. We need to replace a culture of
entitlement and corruption with a culture of accountability. We need to replace
benefits for a privileged few with government for all.
Everyday Canadians – the hardworking
people who pay their taxes and play by the rules –want and deserve a new
government that will put the people’s interest ahead of self-interest. And this
election provides them with a chance to tell Liberal Ottawa that they’ve had
enough; that they’re tired of being forgotten; that it’s finally their turn.
It’s time for a new government that
will get things done – for all of us. Our priorities are clear. We will clean
up government, cut the GST, offer parents help with child care, cut patient
wait times for medical procedures, and crack down on crime.
Our plan will help individuals,
families, seniors, and small business. A new Conservative government will
strengthen national unity and advance our interests on the world stage.
This platform presents a clear choice
for Canadians. A clear choice between old and new; entitlement and
accountability; benefits for a few and leadership for all. Only one party can
deliver the change of government that’s needed to bring political
accountability to Ottawa.
Join me and stand up for Canada.
Stephen Harper, Leader of the
Conservative Party of Canada (election 2006) The sad irony is that THIS Stephen
Harper had it right. I wonder what happened to him. The Stephen Harper we have
now is EVERYTHING this one campaigned against.
These scandals, situations and
questions have gone completely unaccounted for by this government. In fact,
other than for an almost non-existent percentage, no one has been fired,
reprimanded, replaced or investigated criminally. The only action taken to
account for these situations is to obfuscate the truth by cutting off access of
media and police -- a truly fascist and arguably treasonous move. Sadly, I have
debated this letter for some time, out of fear for my family and myself,
because it seems to be a pattern for this government to steamroll over problems
and issues rather than to acknowledge them. I realize that I am throwing myself
under the steamroller. What a sad sad commentary about what this country, the
envy of every other country in the world because of its moral and ethical
values, has become.
Mr. Harper, in light of your complete
and total lack of transparency and accountability, indeed you absolute disdain
for those two qualities that you clearly, repeatedly campaigned on, I had no
choice but to write to you. The only purpose you have is your own
megalomaniacal lust of power and authority at ANY cost. There is no
transparency and there is no regard or respect for the laws of our Parliament
or of our country when applied to you and your government. Based on the fact
that your party did participate in election fraud, and did obstruct
investigation into said election fraud, along with the rest of this very long
list (and whatever else will be coming out today and in the days to come of
your questionable, at best, practices) I would respectfully request that you
attend the Governor General’s residence either to ask for this illegitimate
government to be dissolved, or to file your resignation as Prime Minister of
Canada... or both
Yes! Everything you just said!
ReplyDeleteIndeed.
ReplyDeleteHarper can resign or go to jail!
ReplyDeleteI concur. Dissolve or Resign. We are not afraid to fire you.
ReplyDeleteWe are not afraid to fire him, nor are we afraid of being put on his enemies list. He has powerful friends who will stop at nothing to keep him in power, so we all need to stay alert, until we can throw him out of office
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