Showing posts with label occupy Canada. Show all posts
Showing posts with label occupy Canada. Show all posts

Monday, June 24, 2013

Canada a dictatorship under Harper. More Occupy Canada views


Source is here until Harper has it removed. Posted on June 10, 2013

Stephen Harper is quoted from his own words in mainstream media news sources calling Canada a dictatorship, and having the audacity to say you won't recognize Canada when he's through with it. He even renamed the government of Canada after himself.

It's on record he's borrowed techniques from the works of dictator Joseph Stalin, China's propaganda minister, even Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels yet some Canadians are still on the fence, have their heads buried in the sand and won't see him for what he is..

Astounding the same thing happened in Germany no one saw Hitler coming or most were quiet and scared. 

FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE SCIENTISTS, THEN THEY CAME FOR THE LIBRARIANS..

Dictator speaks - What won't be recognized? Your country, your towns.

The fallacy of irrelevance presents an amusing comparison of a choice of phrases between the 'Great Dictator', Adolf Hitler, and the leader of the "benign dictatorship" of Canada, former Alliance Party founder and current Harper Government head of control, Stephen Harper.

Hitler quote (translated):
"Give me four years and I promise you you won't recognize your towns." as quoted in The Harvard Crimson review of The Bombing of Germany, Hans Rumpf; Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963.

source 1. The Harvard crimson.http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1963/10/24/bombs-over-germany-peighteen-years-after/

source 2. The official Australian War Memorial
http://www.awm.gov.au/wartime/25/article.asp

Harper quote:
“You won’t recognize Canada when I’m through with it,” as quoted in The National Post special excerpt from What We Talk About When We Talk About War, Noah Richler; Goose Lane Editions, 2012.
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/05/05/noah-richler-a-nation-playing-war/

Quote source 2. The Hill Times
Stephen Harper once said ‘you won’t recognize Canada when I get through with it.’
source: http://www.hilltimes.com/policy-briefing/2012/02/06/is-this-the-end-of-canadian-medicare/29460

CBC News: Stephen Harper calls Canada "a benign dictatorship." http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadavotes2011/story/2011/03/30/cv-milewski-harper-coalition.html

"The Conservatives under Stephen Harper are running an effective dictatorship." -Frances Russell, Winnipeg Free Press >http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/analysis/harperites-undermine-democracy-201575301.html

Is Stephen Harper displaying fascist-like tendencies?
by Nick Fillmore, CBC journalist for 20 years, turned independent. >http://canadiandimension.com/articles/4486/, Bio: http://j-source.ca/users/nick-fillmore

National Post: Stephen Harper over the years has apparently styled himself after the former Soviet dictator, utilizing portions of Joseph Stalins' philosophy in order to divide and conquer, in order to keep himself in power.

"Harper's choice of reading material has disturbed even some of his own party members. A senior conservative cabinet minister(who asked that the national post do not release his name) claims that: Harper had "read and mastered" the biography and leadership style of Russia's Communist dictator Josef Stalin, and said the prime minister has adopted some of the same tactics. "He plays people off against one another, he attempts to inspire fear rather than respect, he is unpredictable and he is 100 per cent focused on eliminating the opposition," the senior Conservative explained."
source: http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/story.html?id=eaf90e25-6d16-4156-8cec-a735d758144b&k

Stephen Harper is borrowing Propaganda techniques from Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels >http://voices-voix.ca/en/news/harpers-communications-strategy-and-some-principles-propaganda

Here is an article from The Hill Times written by the late Professor William Stanbury: 'Joseph Goebbels said it, Stephen Harper lives it' - Harper's communications strategy and some principles of propaganda

The Hill Times, Monday, November 23, 2009
>http://www.hilltimes.com/stanburys-view/2009/11/23/harpers-communications-strategy-and-some-principles-of-propaganda/22832

Some readers may be shocked to learn that the principles cited and used by the Harper government are based upon Joseph Goebbels' Principles of Propaganda

Canadians growing tired of Harper’s Economic Action Plan call government ads ‘propaganda’ in recent survey
>http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/02/17/canadians-growing-tired-of-harpers-economic-action-plan-call-government-ads-propaganda-in-recent-survey/

The Globe and Mail- Stephen Harper has been getting pointers from China's Propaganda Minister, he is the leading controller of Internet and information censorship.

"Mr. Harper’s government, however, barely mentioned the three-day visit of the powerful Communist Party official. How powerful? Forbes ranked Mr. Li No. 19 on a list of the world’s most powerful people. In their words, he “controls what 1.3 billion Chinese see, hear, speak.” he is the de facto controller of media and information censorship." > http://bit.ly/HZ1n6J

Stephen Harper removed former prime ministers paintings in the lobby of the Ottawa House of Commons and replaced them with photos of himself. >http://bit.ly/TLP3RB

The Globe and Mail: "Mr. Harper's idea of what sort of art you should hang on your wall was signalled by his removal of all pictures of previous Conservative prime ministers from their lobby room - including John A. and Dief the Chief - and their replacement by pictures of none other than Mr. Harper himself. History, it seems, is to begin with him. In communist countries, this used to be called the Cult of Personality." http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/to-be-creative-is-in-fact-canadian/article716213/

"The prime minister's official Christmas card portrayed Mr. Harper looking out a living room window adorned with 24 photographs, small to large, of himself." Photo:http://blog.ounodesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/harperxmas1.301.jpg

Toronto Star: Stephen Harper renames 'Government of Canada' after himself. >http://bit.ly/gthmyi,http://bit.ly/19Qkkc5

Harper Conquers Canada though election fraud, One Robocall at a Time>http://huff.to/xJMgJI,http://bit.ly/fnI6uDhttp://bit.ly/1070is5,http://bit.ly/UW1Gcg

Harper's government isn't just trying to re-write history books in schools, they're censoring or muzzling Canadian scientists, librarians, the CBC, archivists, artists, diplomats, police, even conservative MP's - they're blocking access to information and harassing whistleblowers and anyone who dares challenge them. Full comprehensive references can be read here >>>http://ow.ly/lTRg3

Here's a repository of over 80 muzzling cases in Canada:
"The hit list documents more than 80 cases of individuals, organizations and public service institutions that have been muzzled, defunded, shut down or subjected to vilification by Stephen Harper's government" >www.voices-voix.ca/hit-list

The Slow and Painful Death of Freedom in Canada
>http://huff.to/YgKZMl

"So perhaps it is time for us Canadians to wake up and smell the suppression -- no longer are censorships solely the purview of tin-pot dictators in far away regimes.
These seemingly gradual erosions to the freedoms of assembly, expression and information in Canada are all very real" - Adam Kingsmith, PhD Candidate

Everyone needs to watch this: "1984 in 2013: The Assault on Reason" - by Allan Gregg, former conservative pollster and TVO host >http://huff.to/16oPkjlhttp://huff.to/QAcSIK

Stephen Harper government builds Orwellian stone wall around information: Public editor >http://bit.ly/10QWbzP

Toronto Star 'Plague of Harper government secrecy throttles Canadians’ freedom' >http://bit.ly/18yM0ig

Harper government found spying on aboriginal children advocate, including stalking her facebook page>http://bit.ly/18ttHiN

Macleans magazine: 'With the muzzling of scientists, Harper’s obsession with control verges on the Orwellian'
http://bit.ly/11GGUxT 


Sunday, September 9, 2012

Canada Eh!

Thanks the Jen for this wonderful view of Canada
Source: https://www.facebook.com/#!/richard.hansen86

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

An Australian Definition of a Canadian eh

In case anyone asks you who a Canadian is . . .  thanks to my daughter for this reminder of what Steven Harper is trying to destroy, sometimes you have to be on the outside looking in to see what you have and what you could lose.


 An Australian wrote the following editorial to help define what a Canadian is:

 A Canadian can be English, or French, or Italian, Irish, German, Spanish, Polish, Russian or Greek. A Canadian can be Mexican, African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian, Asian, Arab, Pakistani or Afghan.

 A Canadian may also be a Cree, Métis, Mohawk, Blackfoot, Sioux, or one of the many other tribes known as native Canadians. A Canadian's religious beliefs range from Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or none. In fact, there are more Muslims in Canada than in Afghanistan. The key difference is that in Canada they are free to worship as each of them chooses.

Whether they have a religion or no religion, each Canadian ultimately answers only to God, not to the government, or to armed thugs claiming to speak for the government and for God.

A Canadian lives in one of the most prosperous lands in the history of the world. The root of that prosperity can be found in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms which recognize the right of each person to the pursuit of happiness.

A Canadian is generous and Canadians have helped out just about every other nation in the world in their time of need, never asking a thing in return. Canadians welcome the best of everything, the best products, the best books, the best music, the best food, the best services and the best minds.

But they also welcome the least -the oppressed, the outcast and the rejected.

These are the people who built Canada. You can try to kill a Canadian if you must as other blood-thirsty tyrants in the world have tried but in doing so you could just be killing a relative or a neighbour.

This is because Canadians are not a particular people from a particular place. They are the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom. Everyone who holds to that spirit, everywhere, can be a Canadian.


Please keep this going!  It says it all, for all of us

Friday, July 20, 2012

Federal Government censorship challenged by Vancouver Actors


Will the prime minister sue a group of Vancouver actors asks the Vancouver Sun, in an attempt to gain readers and to intimidate the artistic community in Vancouver who have decided to challenge Steven Harper and his censorship of the arts. The following is from the Vancouver Sun story and  Google news


David Bloom, who's directing the Vancouver reading of the controversial play Proud, which features (Tom McBeath, John Cassini, Quelemia Sparrow and Gaelan Beatty), says the idea of a libel suit is a red herring, but he understands why artists might be afraid of offending the government.


"Obviously companies who depend on Heritage Canada - have reason to be nervous about upsetting a sitting government - The federal government can withdraw funding from an-body it likes. Would they do something punitive because of this script? Who's to say?" This would sound like paranoia if not for a few recent controversies where artists with an anti-government bent have had their federal funding pulled.


Summerworks, a Toronto theatre festival, lost its annual funding the year after a spokesman for the Prime Minister's Office expressed "disappointment" that Heritage Canada funded a festival that presented a play about terrorism.



For more information on the event link here: Staged Reading of PROUD, July 22, 8 PM 

Tickets are general admission, and by donation. For ticket reservations, email proudvancouver@gmail.com .


Vancouver artists stand in solidarity with Toronto colleagues by mounting a staged reading of Michael Healey’s controversial new play, Proud on Sunday, July 22 (8:00 pm) at PL 1422.


Michael Healey wrote Proud during his 11-year tenure as Playwright in Residence at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto. When the company chose not to produce the play as part of their 2012-13 season, Healey resigned from his post. The play – a comedy – features an unnamed character called “The Prime Minister” and is about Canadian social and political values. The Tarragon Theatre denies that programming choices are effected by political pressure, but only last year Toronto’s Summerworks Theatre Festival had funding cut by Canadian Heritage after choosing to present a play that allegedly portrayed a homegrown “terrorist” sympathetically. Healey is mounting an independent production of Proud in Toronto this fall.


Vancouver’s reading of Proud is directed by David Bloom, Artistic Director of Felix Culpa, and features Tom McBeath (Death of a Salesman), John Cassini (God of Carnage), Quelemia Sparrow (August: Osage County), and Gaelan Beatty (Xanadu).


Director Bloom says, “We are producing Proud for two reasons: it’s an intelligent and provocative piece of theatre about our current political landscape, and because the greatest threat to the arts is self-censorship and fear.”


He continues, “The fact is we will never know for certain why Tarragon decided not to produce Proud. Here’s a question worth asking though: why is it so easy for us to believe they feared some kind of retribution for producing a play critical of the Harper Government™? Is it because theatre artists are innately timid, or is it because the government’s attacks on their perceived enemies have become so flagrant and outrageous? If they can set aside 8 million dollars to attack charities that disagree with their policies, surely anybody can be a target.”


Vancouver theatre companies supporting Proud include Felix Culpa, Neworld Theatre, Touchstone Theatre, Arts Club Theatre, Playwrights Theatre Centre, Ruby Slippers, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades, Compassionate Bone, Leaky Heaven Circus, and Pi Theatre.

Saturday, June 30, 2012

Life in Canada under harper

One day before Canada Day, I think it is important to reflect on what Canada is becoming under Harper.  The Sixth Estate has a wonderful post that paints a very realistic picture of what life in Canada today could become. The post is called  Life Under Canada’s Small Government Dystopia and was posted on June 23, but I think it is important to read it as we move to celebrate Canada Day


The following post is deliberately alarmist. Orwellian, you might say. I’m not trying to paint a picture of what things are like in Canada right now, or even what I think they’ll be like in the near future. I’m not an idiot. But I do want to paint a picture of the sort of Canada which is explicitly permitted under some of the legal changes proposed and/or actually passed by the Harper regime. Whether this represents in any way the policies of a party that used to stand for small, transparent, and accountable government, is also up to you. I think by the end of this you’ll have a good idea where I stand on that question. So some of this list has already happened, but more of it are things the government has said they want to be allowed to happen, but haven’t actually done. Yet.

We’ll start from the perspective of an immigrant, rather than a newborn Canadian. You apply for immigration, you make sure all your ducks are in order, and you wait for your application to be processed. Because the government can’t afford to process the paperwork, your application may languish for a considerable time. Sometimes, the government simply eliminates the waiting list altogether and instructs you to start over from square one. You will also need to keep your political beliefs very quiet (or make sure they agree with the government in power), because the law allows the minister to personally reject your application for the nebulous reason of “public policy considerations.”


Read the entire post here or here:  Posted by Sixth Estate under Democracy and Politics

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Casseroles Night in Canada Next One June 6th


Across Canada and worldwide join with ordinary Canadians protesting the erosion of your civil liberties. For more information go to https://www.facebook.com/OccupyCanada
We thought we should plan to do this even bigger next Wed June 6... Here's all the info from May 30, for posterity. We'll start collecting event info here for next week shortly.

The 1st ever Casseroles Night in Canada has been a huge success - congrats to everybody who took part!
6. Tweet about May 30 using the hashtag #CasserolesNightInCanada

Moyens faciles pour promulguer les Soirées Casseroles au Canada:

1. Inviter vos ami/es sur facebook

2. Téléphoner/texter vos ami/es, voisin/es, colleagues au sujet du 30 mai

3. Créer un évenement facebook pour votre coin, et afficher les co-ordonnées ici

4. Partager ce vidéoclip inspirant, déjà devenu viral:
http://vimeo.com/42848523


5. Dessiner une affiche pour votre évenement locale, et les afficher dans le coin

6.
Tweeter le 30 mai: #CasserolesNightInCanada_____
Local Casseroles Meet-Ups:

Note that there are HUNDREDS of casseroles in Montreal and Quebec: a few are listed here, please see the map link at the top of this page for many, many more.

- Aylmer, Qc: 8pm Rue Émile Zola, by the retention basin near Zola & Paul Claudel

- Brampton, ON: Meeting in Gage Park at 8:00 pm.

- Bridgewater, Nova Scotia:
http://www.facebook.com/events/240813742694496/

- Brussels, Belgium: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=388846504486401&set=oa.414920465205745&type=1&theater

- Calgary: Calgary’s Red Square, 8 Avenue at 1 Street SW http://www.facebook.com/events/417557621621975/

- Courtenay BC: May 30, 8PM Court House, Peace Park, Across from Thrifty's https://www.facebook.com/events/152361371563945/

- Cumberland, BC: Meet at Corre Alice Gallery - casserole is joining with book launch that starts 7pm: http://www.thecumberlander.ca/go1228e/Surrealist_Book_Launch_at_Corre_Alice_Gallery_May_30

- Dawson City, Yukon: Third and King

-Edmonton, Gazebo Park
http://www.facebook.com/events/241487335960915/

- Gaspésie, Chandler, marche à 19h, rue commerciale, départ de l'église et casseroles à 20h :)

- Golden, BC: Meet at the pedestrian bridge

- Guelph, ON, May 30, 8PM 2 Rivers Community Garden, Huron Street
https://www.facebook.com/events/336015149805050/

- Guelph 2: Guelph City Hall http://www.facebook.com/events/444067248939196/

-Halfmoon Bay, BC, corner of Cooper and Connor Roads

- Halifax: Victoria Park, May 30, 8PM
https://www.facebook.com/events/356301801101923/

- Hamilton: Gore Park 8pm May 30https://www.facebook.com/events/240793812696923/

-Kamouraska, QC 19h à 20h May 30

- Kamloops, BC: This will start 5pm May 30
http://www.facebook.com/events/398477186871477/

- Kelowna, BC: At the Sails downtown 8pm http://www.facebook.com/events/469083733106977/

- Kingston, ON: Skeleton Park, May 30 8pm Two FB events, same location. https://www.facebook.com/events/277336302365699/ AND https://www.facebook.com/events/307045406050824/

- Kitchener-Waterloo, ON: Kitchener City Hall, May 30, 8PM. https://www.facebook.com/events/285866524843697/

- Laval, QC: http://www.facebook.com/events/184046648387768/

- Lethbridge, Alberta: https://www.facebook.com/events/356254727774887/

-Little Rock, Arkansas, May 30, 6PM CST, Meet at 4th and Ferry and march downtown (Occupy Little Rock FB page) https://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy-Little-Rock/203956686340262

- London, ON: "So in London, Ont. we will be doing a cacerolazo tonight (Sunday) and perhaps Tuesday as well. Wednesday Maude Barlow of the Council of Canadians is speaking -- so perhaps we should we step outside from that event with our pots & pans for 15 minutes."

- London, ON #2 TUESDAY MAY 29
https://www.facebook.com/events/296714847085116/

- London, ON #3 WEDNESDAY MAY 30: http://www.facebook.com/events/140462316088217/

- London, UK: http://www.facebook.com/events/314679138616523/

- Madison, Wisconsin: http://www.facebook.com/events/364809540246875/

- Matane, Gaspésie, QC: http://www.facebook.com/events/394096323963088/

- Minden, ON: come to the Gravity Café 7:00pm.

- Moncton, NB: Event info here
https://www.facebook.com/events/391338430907267/?notif_t=plan_user_invited

- Montreal + Quebec, see the map at http://goo.gl/maps/R3oF

- Nanaimo, BC: outside of The Vault Cafe

- Nelson, BC:
http://www.facebook.com/events/320742161335910/

- New York Cityhttps://www.facebook.com/events/406373022741163/

- Niagara/St Catherines May 30 7:30pm http://www.facebook.com/events/314188628662357/

- Oshawa, ON: 8pm May 30 at King St & Centre St http://www.facebook.com/events/161299047334798/

- Ottawa: Four locations! https://www.facebook.com/events/319020784842665/

- Paris! http://www.facebook.com/events/151957378271673

- Parksville, BC: 8pm Meet up downtown at the corner of Alberni and Island Highways

- Peterborough, ON: May 30, 8PM. Confederation Park
https://www.facebook.com/events/161740170623072/

- Powell River: Donkersley and Hwy 101

- Providence Bay, ON: On the boardwalk 8pm May 30

- Regina: Meet up 8pm in front of Safeway on 13th Ave:
https://www.facebook.com/events/298097263617021/

- Roberts Creek, BC: Meet at the Roberts Creek Hall 8pm May 30

- Saint Jean sur Richelieu:
www.facebook.com/pages/Les-casseroles-de-Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu/222970617820765

- Salt Spring Island, BC http://www.facebook.com/events/448795351797904/448993491778090/?notif_t=plan_mall_activity

- San Francisco, CA: meet at California St and 18th Ave, head to the Golden Gate Bridge

-San Jose, Costa Rica, contact Bob Lyon, ubi@myaccess.ca

- Saskatoon, May 30 Meet at Rotary Park
http://www.facebook.com/events/339899092748052/

- Sudbury, May 30 pm Meet in front of Cranky Joe's http://www.facebook.com/events/276526045778538/

- St John's, Newfoundland: Harbourside Park, 8PM, May 30 https://www.facebook.com/events/340765122662392/

- Tatamagouche, NS 8PM, May 30, Meet in front of Fables bar, 259 Main St https://www.facebook.com/events/370473613013954/

- Terrebonne, QC: http://www.facebook.com/events/416057105100630/

- Toronto: Dufferin Grove Park (875 Dufferin St.) 8pmhttps://www.facebook.com/events/391104920936260/?notif_t=plan_user_invited

- Toronto #2: Leslieville http://www.facebook.com/events/222955611155104/

- Toronto #3: Rally for the east end of downtown Toronto: Winchester Park: http://www.facebook.com/events/260307904077087/

- Toronto #4 Seaton Village: http://www.facebook.com/events/425457310820641/?context=create

- Toronto #5: Toronto Poets and Friends, meet at the NW corner of Grace and Harbord.

- Toronto #6: Harbord & Huron, heading west toward Dufferin
www.facebook.com/events/313742542042937/

- Toronto #8 Parkdale Feeder: http://www.facebook.com/events/229319977170862/

-Trois-Rivières, Québec, Parc Champlainhttps://www.facebook.com/events/448173885210753/

- Uxbridge, Ontario

- Val-d'Or, QC: Parc Lapointe on the corner of 3th ave and 8th street
www.facebook.com/events/465811283444260/

- Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery (at Hornby) May 30 8pm: http://www.facebook.com/events/389560671090202/

- Vancouver 2: Commercial Street neighbourhood gathering: http://www.facebook.com/events/231428226968810/

- Vancouver 3: Grandview Park neighbourhood gatherine: http://www.facebook.com/events/423595237674368/

- Vancouver 4: Main and Broadway

- Victoria: Centennial Square, meet up May 30, 7pm,
http://www.facebook.com/events/387070784673188/

- Wakefield, QC: on the covered bridge

- Washington, DC:
https://www.facebook.com/events/150370781754310

- Whitehorse: http://www.facebook.com/events/274591929306039/

- Winnipeg, MB Meet up May 30, 8PM, Manitoba Legislative Building, 450 Broadway, Winnipeg https://www.facebook.com/events/105793619562147/

- Winnipeg 2, THURSDAY May 31 7PM - West Broadway Neighborhood Centre field on Young Street. Just south of Young and Broadway. https://www.facebook.com/events/208570245930346?ref=bookmark

- Wolfville, NS https://www.facebook.com/events/373075686086376/

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The largest student strike, and the largest act of civil disobedience in the History of north America took place RIGHT HERE......COME ON PEOPLE STAND WITH YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF QUEBEC.....YOUR COUNTRY MEN AND WOMEN........OTHERS AROUND THE WORLD HAVE JOINED US.........BE LOUD BE PROUD.....STAND IN SOLIDARITY!


"The extraordinary student mobilization in Quebec has already sustained the longest and largest student strike in the history of North America, and it has already organized the single biggest act of civil disobedience in Canadian history. It is now rapidly growing into one of the most powerful and inventive anti-austerity campaigns anywhere in the world"


London Guardian news source:
http://alturl.com/ssqfp 


June 01st Paris, France! Solidarity!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed1DnU_tx4U&feature=youtu.be


May 30th New York! Solidarity!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPh-aKXWvnM&feature=player_embedded


May 30th Toronto! Solidarity!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXNU7-9UyLA


May 30th Vancouver! Solidarity!
http://youtu.be/nnJtqkJUYRs


May 30th Brussels Belgium ! Solidarity!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8KmMdGQjqY


May 30th London England ! Solidarity!
http://t.co/8IHwKKOY


May 30th Buenos Aires, Argentina! Solidarity!
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=438203509531571&set=a.278568382161752.74506.278550055496918&type=1&theater


Leonard Cohen - Solidarity Forever !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jsQEwW4DVw


JOIN US AGAIN ON JUNE 6TH "Casseroles night in Canada" and the world! , over 60 Canadian cities including U.S cities NY and Arkansas, Internationally the UK, and Belgium participated in solidarity on May 30th! The energy was electric, Solidarity with the Quebec student protests, Its time we take democracy back everywhere! New cities being added daily. Check for updates!
http://www.facebook.com/events/306990322722976/

Thursday, May 31, 2012

Federal budget cuts



Federal budget cuts are actually twice as deep as advertised, says a new report from the Parliamentary Budget Office.


While all eyes have been on the austerity measures in the 2012 budget, the PBO finds that cuts and budget freezes from 2010 to this year double the belt-tightening that departments are dealing with.


At the same time, the battle for information between the government and the PBO has turned up a notchWhile the fight for information will continue over the coming weeks, the Parliamentary Budget Office was able to get new details for its report released Monday.


The report totally reframes the government’s spending cuts as starting in 2010. The Conservatives announced in this year’s budget they would cut $5.2 billion and 19,200 jobs over the next three years.
But while the last two budgets contained stimulus, they also had underlying long-term cuts that are now starting to be felt. The PBO reports that when the cuts are added together, the government is actually chopping twice as much — $10.8 billion from the budget and 26,800 jobs.


As an example, Fisheries and Oceans is facing $79.3 million in cuts this year. But those cuts are on top of $56.8 million already announced, as well as a multi-year budget freeze.


Top-level data on the cuts is coming in slowly but surely. The Parliamentary Budget Office asked all departments to break down funding for main programs (for Fisheries and Oceans, this would include things like funding for search and rescue and icebreaking). Most have complied but one-third of departments and agencies refused.


On the request for specifics of how departments are handling program cuts, almost no one has answered.


The Finance Department plans to meet its $5.2 billion in savings from this year’s budget with a $1.1-billion cut to small grants and contributions (excluding major transfers like equalization), $1.8 billion in lower staffing costs and $2.3 billion in other operating savings.


The PBO says that last category, which makes up 46 per cent of all of this year’s cuts, remains largely a mystery.
Sources: 

http://thechronicleherald.ca/canada/101500-federal-budget-s-deep-cuts-getting-deeper

https://www.facebook.com/#!/OccupyCanada

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Occupy Canada Links updated


Its scandal after scandal with the most secretive government in Canadian history! "The Harper Regime" is taking the knife to the Canadian people with streamlining cuts while they continue to lie to the Canadian public about billion dollar expenditures.

Outrageous spending on superjails to privatize prisons, $25 billion dollar fighter jets, double the costs with 2 sets of books, Libya War spending 6x the estimates they gave, Military contracts for weapons which are double the estimates, they have all this money for security contracts yet and full federal budget cuts are being kept secret until 2013, right now there's cuts to everything from award winning rehab programs for inmates, food safety cuts (Canada is the first developed country to face such a probe by U.N food inspectors), elections Canada cuts during an ongoing investigation onto election fraud, Stats Canada cuts, CSIS oversight has been cut, Auditor General cuts, CBC cuts, border security cuts, parks Canada cuts , refugee health care cuts, 16,000 public service job cuts, programs for PTSD and suicide prevention for our Canadian military cut.. 100 E.I centres cut, the shredding of environmental review process from 40 to 3, all to line their corporate partners and themselves pockets of tax payer's money. WAKE UP CANADA

(All References/Sources Attached Below: Its a comprehensive list of references all fact checked, its very important for all Canadians to read this, please take the time!))

 BILLIONS FOR MILITARY CONTRACTS, CONS LIED ABOUT COSTS
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May 11, 2012- Quietly awarded $105M defence contract leads to accusations Tories trying to hide details of military spending
Source: http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/05/11/quietly-awarded-105m-defence-contract-leads-to-accusations-tories-trying-to-hide-details-of-military-spending/

Canada’s mission in Libya cost almost 6 TIMES the original estimates Peter Mckay gave. The total cost of the Libya operation — a figure that includes everything from jet fuel to pilot salaries, including the salaries of military personnel — comes in at $347 MILLION
Last October, MacKay told CBC Radio's The House the Libyan mission had cost taxpayers less than $50 million.
"As of Oct. 13, the figures that I've received have us well below that, somewhere under $50 million," MacKay said.
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/05/11/libya-mission-cost-spending-canada-peter-mackay_n_1509977.html

F-35 purchase had 2 sets of books, Page says
Conservative MP Rajotte denies government did anything wrong in jet procurement process
source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/04/27/pol-the-house-kevin-page-f35s-budget.html

Harper Government lied to Canadians on F-35 $25 billion costs - Auditor General
source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYgnVJvMCsE

SECRET CON GOVERNMENT KEEP FEDERAL BUDGET CUTS UNDER WRAP UNTIL 2013
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Its a secret government, Federal budget cuts withheld from public until late 2013

Harper government the most secretive, say Canadian Association of Journalists. The federal government was named for keeping information out of public hands on files such as the F-35 program, avoiding questions at media events and for restricting both public and media access to contentious information.
source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/harper-government-most-secretive-journalists-say/article2417147/

Details of federal cuts not coming until 2013
As Treasury Board president Tony Clement trumpets Canada's plan for open government at a meeting overseas, back home, the Conservatives are facing criticism for being secretive about thousands of federal job losses, government program cuts and taking control of pipeline approvals.
source: http://www.nationalpost.com/related/topics/Details+federal+cuts+coming+until+2013/6484464/story.html

Handcuffed’ Tories won’t reveal full details of cuts till next spring
Canadians will have to wait until the spring of 2013 to get a full accounting of what programs and services have been cut to balance the federal books. That’s the timeline Treasury Board President (G8 legacy $50 million dollar fund fraudster) Tony Clement reluctantly confirmed Wednesday during a conference call from Brazil, where he’s taking part in a conference on “open government.”
source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/handcuffed-tories-wont-reveal-full-details-of-cuts-till-next-spring/article2406714/

Government secrecy over details of spending cuts in the 2012 budget is unnecessary and prevents MPs from performing their constitutional role as watchdogs of the public purse, the Parliamentary Budget Officer warns. In two new reports released Wednesday, Kevin Page touches on a wide range of current economic issues. The reports urge departments to address the lack of transparency over spending cuts. The first report takes issue with the fact that the government, as recently explained by Treasury Board President Tony Clement, is of the view that existing rules prevent departments from fully detailing the cuts until as late as spring 2013. The minister’s comments appeared to contradict a pledge he made before the March 29 budget was released, when he promised to provide MPs with “timely and accurate” information on spending cuts. source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/no-need-to-withhold-detail-on-cuts-watchdog-tells-tories/article2413714/

FOOD SAFETY CUT BY CONS , UN INSPECTORS DENIED
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Remember Canada listeriosis outbreak where 22 Canadians died? Canada’s food-safety inspection force will shrink by as many as 100 inspectors — cuts the workers’ union says will have an impact on the safety of food purchased by Canadians. source:http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/04/11/budgets-cuts-mean-100-fewer-food-safety-inspectors-in-canada/

Canada is the first developed country to face such a probe by U.N food inspectors/envoy
source: : http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20120507/United-Nations-food-Olivier-Schutter-Canada-120507/#ixzz1uhaOWbZB

Harper government Cabinet ministers refuse to meet UN food envoy
Several of Harper's ministers have declined requests to meet with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food as part of his first-ever probe of a developed country.
http://www.canada.com/Cabinet+ministers+refuse+meet+food+envoy/6571488/story.html

Food bank demand remains near record high
In total, 851,014 people walked through the doors of a food bank in 2011
source: http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20111101/food-bank-usage-national-study-canada-111101/#ixzz1uhav5GUf


PRISON REHABILITATION PROGRAM CUT BY CONS
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Prison rehab program axed due to Harper budget cuts
An award-winning program that helps rehabilitate prisoners and protect the public by keeping them from re-offending is falling victim to budget cuts.

The Lifeline program, which provides support for those serving life sentences and helps re-integrate those who are released on parole, has been operating in Canadian prisons for more than 20 years.
The estimated cost of the Lifeline program is $2 million per year
source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/04/16/corrections-service-lineline-cut.html

TWO -TIERED WAGE SYSTEM BY CONS
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Two-tiered wage system announced by hapercons. Employers will now be allowed to pay foreign temp workers 15 per cent less than the average wage. Source: http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/1168905--two-tiered-wage-system-announced-by-tories


100 E.I CENTRES CUT BY CONS
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The number of E.I claims now waiting beyond 28 days has ballooned to 80,000. Over the next three years, The Harper government (Conservatives) is going to close the majority of 120 processing centres and shift services to 20 centralized offices (Mostly in conservative ridings) source:http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/01/13/pol-service-canada-closures.html

Video: Harper Government Hijacks E.I, 100 E.I Service Canada closures cominghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53Uz9JzKG1g


PUBLIC SERVICE JOBS CUT BY CONS
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Up to 68,000 public service jobs to be cut by Harper government
source: http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20120123/public-service-job-cuts-120123/#ixzz1uhY4l3sG

The federal government said it would eliminate 19,200 jobs, about a third in the National Capital Region around Ottawa, as part of a spending review that will cut $5.2 billion over three years from government departments and agencies. Source:http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2012/03/29/federalbudget-flaherty-public-service-cuts.html

STATS CANADA CUT BY CONS
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Stats Canada cuts .. Nearly half of the roughly 5,000 people working at Statistics Canada are being warned that their jobs are at risk, suggesting deep cuts are in store for one of the country’s most trusted sources of information. source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/conservative-cuts-put-half-of-statscan-jobs-at-risk/article2418557/

CBC CUT BY CONS
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CBC major cuts, shed 650 jobs over 3 years due to Harpercon budget
The CBC will eliminate 650 jobs over the next three years, including 475 this fiscal year, in response to deep funding cuts in last week’s federal budget.

The federal budget means the CBC will lose $115 million in funding over three years. But Lacroix noted that because of cost increases and investments, it faces a shortfall of $200 million. Lacroix said the CBC hopes to offset that with $50 million in new revenue. The remaining $150 million will be reached through staff and program cuts and efficiencies.
source: http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1156594--cbc-announces-cuts-will-shed-650-jobs-in-the-next-three-years

REFUGEE HEALTH CARE CUT BY CONS
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Doctors fight for refugee health care
Ottawa cutting off free health coverage for claimants from democratic nations. Hamilton doctors are raising the alarm about refugee claimants losing drug, vision and dental coverage at the end of June. Those deemed to be from safe and democratic countries will have no health coverage at all except services needed for protection of public health or safety.

“It's a complete travesty,” said Dr. Christian Kraeker, a Hamilton internist who participated in a protest against the federal cuts in Toronto Friday. It was one of a number of protests across the country.
http://www.thespec.com/news/local/article/723350--doctors-fight-for-refugee-health-care

WATCH VIDEO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiNDtUaNudk%2F

Doctors stage sit-in over refugee health care cuts
Government plan would cut services to refugee claimants. Oliver was not at his office but about 60 of the doctors occupied it for about half an hour before police arrived and asked them to leave. They continued their protest outside on the street for another two hours. source;http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2012/05/11/doctors-refugee-sit-in.html

AUDITOR GENERAL CUT BY CONS
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Auditor-General’s office cuts
cons to cut 60 jobs, reduce number of audits
The Auditor-General’s office is cutting 10 per cent of its staff – or 60 jobs – and other parts of government are scrapping a wide range of reports to Parliament, according to the latest details on spending cuts provided by officials.
source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/auditor-generals-office-to-cut-60-jobs-reduce-number-of-audits/article2429408/?utm_medium=Feeds%3A+RSS%2FAtom&utm_source=Politics&utm_content=2429408

Oversight agencies slashing budgets
Auditor general cutting 60 jobs. The watchdog agencies that oversee federal government operations have not been spared from sweeping cuts in this year's budget. source: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/oversight-agencies-slashing-budgets-151229155.html

ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEWS CUT BY CONS
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Environmental Review cuts: David Suzuki Foundation, Greenpeace, Others Blast Tories For 'War On Nature' "We're very concerned that the federal government is conducting, essentially, a war on nature and democracy," he says.

Under the new federal plan, the government would have 45 days to decide if an assessment is needed for major economic projects. They would also cut the number of agencies responsible for reviews from 40 to 3. source: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/05/07/environmental-review-war-on-nature_n_1493942.html

PARKS CANADA CUT BY CONS
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Cuts to Parks Canada Parks..Canada said 32 positions in the N.W.T., 30 in Yukon and two in Nunavut will be affected as a result of federal budget cuts. Across Canada, more than 600 jobs will be affected at Parks Canada. “These people are part of our communities across the North,” he said.
“These are jobs retailers depend on for their sales, service companies depend on for their sales, and these people are no longer going to have the income to spend in our communities. This is going to hurt our economy.” Source:http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2012/05/02/north-parks-canada-cuts.html

ELECTIONS CANADA CUT BY CONS
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Elections Canada cut starting this year during an ongoing investigation into election fraud.

Elections Canada funding will be cut by $7.5 million a year, starting in 2012-13.
Source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/03/29/federalbudget-main.html

Could budget cuts of $7.5 million annually leave Elections Canada open for more fraud next time we head to the polls? Training to make sure candidates and parties know the rules at voting time is partially getting axed. The announcement came last week. Part of the federal budget included a cut of 8 per cent to the government agency. Source:http://www.news1130.com/news/national/article/348080--elections-canada-left-open-to-scandal-by-budget-cuts

PTSD/SUICIDE PREVENTION PROGRAM FOR OUR CANADIAN MILITARY CUT BY CONS
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Harper cons cuts soldier suicide prevention program, The Conservative government doesn’t appear to be backing down from its plan to cut the jobs of Department of National Defence medical professionals involved in suicide prevention and monitoring of post-traumatic stress disorders, even as the number of suicides in the Canadian Forces has increased. source: http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/05/03/suicide-prevention-department-of-national-defence/

CSIS OVERSIGHT WATCHDOG CUT BY CONS
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**ALARM** , CSIS watchdog to be cut in budget..The watchdog responsible for monitoring the activities of Canada's spy agency and reporting findings to the minister in
charge will be eliminated as part of the federal government's budget. Source:http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/04/27/pol-csis-inspector-general-eliminated-budget.html

CSIS freed from final shreds of oversight
If you are a Canadian citizen, landed immigrant or refugee to this country and you are even the least bit aware of the rights and civil liberties that Canada affords you, then you should be deeply worried today. Late last week, in its familiar stealth-like fashion, Stephen Harper’s Conservative government shuttered the office of the Inspector General (IG) over Canada’s spy service, CSIS.
source: http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1170771--csis-freed-from-final-shreds-of-oversight

BORDER SECURITY CUT BY CONS
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Border staff cuts called direct attack on national security. Canada is cutting back on border officers even as it prepares to deepen its co-operation with the United States through a wide-ranging deal on perimeter security. Dog-sniffer teams and intelligence officers are among the more than 1,300 jobs the union says it's been told will be eliminated at the Canada Border Services Agency. The government says that while more than 1,000 CBSA will receive letters about potential job reductions, only about 250 people will lose their jobs in the end. The union disputes this.
Source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/border-staff-cuts-called-direct-attack-on-national-security/article2400622/


***PRIVATIZATION OF PRISONS COMING BY CONS
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The cost of the federal prison system has RISEN 86% since the Harper government took over in 2006, government reports show.
When the Conservatives came to power in 2005-06, Canada’s federal corrections system cost nearly $1.6-billion per year, but the projected cost for 2011-12 has increased to $2.98-billion per year. source: http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/07/18/prison-costs-soar-86-in-past-five-years/

Fair questions since the Conservatives on election campaign trials have talked of spending billions on building more prisons. But it’s even more fair when you consider that registered as a lobbyist in Ottawa on crime bill issues is none other than The GEO Group Inc., a $1.3-billion dollar American private for profit prison company that trades on the New York stock exchange.
Registered with the Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying of Canada as registrant 779026-278825-2 is the THE GEO Group Inc, One Park Place Suite 700, Boca Raton, FL GEO is also listed as the client of The Parliamentary Group, a registered lobbying organization which lists former Reform Party MP Deb Grey as a partner. Grey was the Reform’s first election member of parliament whose legislative assistant is now Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Source: http://www.torontosun.com/2012/04/19/is-canada-headed-towards-privatized-prisons

The Harper government plans to spend another $158 million on new prisons with the current crimes rates at an all time low
Source: http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/919371--critics-say-harper-government-throwing-prison-expansion-money-away

The omnibus crime bill is a crime
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1144453--fiorito-the-omnibus-crime-bill-is-a-crime

Crime rate falls to lowest level since 1973
Canada's crime rate is the lowest in nearly 40 years, according to Statistics Canada, as the volume of crime dropped five per cent in 2010 from the year before. source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/07/21/crime-rates.html

Canada's homicide rate declines to 44-year low
Public safety minister pleased, but says Tories won't change crime approach
source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2011/10/26/homicides-statscan.html

**Omnibus Crime Bill: Mental Illness Not A Consideration.**
Justice Minister Rob Nicholson ignored questions Thursday about how a massive new crime bill will deal with Canadians living with mental illness, including young offenders who find themselves being sentenced as adults. source: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/12/01/canada-omnibus-crime-bill-mental-illness_n_1124184.html

Controversial crime bill to cost Canadians $19 BILLION: study
http://www.vancouversun.com/Controversial+crime+bill+cost+Canadians+billion+study/5832700/story.html

Keeping a male inmate in jail per year cost tax payers $109,699 according to a 2009 corrections Canada report: in 2011 it rose to $113,974 a year.

Recent government reports on the cost of Canada’s jails show costs rising on all fronts. For instance, the cost of keeping a male inmate in prison rose from $88,067 per year in 2006 to $109,699 in 2009, according to the most recent data from Corrections and Conditional Release Statistical Overview.The cost of staffing Canada’s federal prisons has also increased significantly, with 5,745 more staff hired at Corrections Canada since the Conservatives took power. Staffing numbers have risen from 14,663 in 2005-06 to 20,408 full-time equivalents in 2011-12, according to Reports on Plans and Priorities.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/07/18/prison-costs-soar-86-in-past-five-years/

$312 per prisoner, per day
Land a bed in jail via rape, murder or any other heinous criminal act, and you’re suddenly worth $113,974 a year to the federal government — nearly ten times as much. Fair? Hardly. But that’s annual average cost for keeping an inmate incarcerated in Canada, according to the latest report from Corrections Canada. It means the federal government is paying $312 per prisoner, per day, to keep Canada’s worst citizens healthy, happy and secure in the penitentiaries our killers and cretins chose to live in.
source: http://www.calgarysun.com/2012/02/28/canadas-criminal-sitting-pretty-as-price-tag-for-prisoners-soars

Americans shocked Harper crime bill gives more time to pot growers than pedophiles
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/canada-politics/americans-odds-harper-crime-bill-gives-more-jail-160536154.html

Texas conseratives to Stephen Harper : Omnibus Crime Bill a huge mistake
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jdw2YJb7Hw

**Texas conservatives** reject Harper's crime plan
'Been there; done that; didn't work,' say Texas crime-fighters
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/10/17/pol-vp-milewski-texas-crime.html

Crime bill unfairly targets women, aboriginals, critics say
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/crime-bill-unfairly-targets-women-aboriginals-critics-say-132223703.html

The Ontario government says the omnibus federal crime bill will cost the province's taxpayers more than $1 billion in increased police and correctional service costs.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2012/01/23/ontario-federal-crime-bill.html

Quebec, Ontario won't pay costs of federal crime bill
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20111101/quebec-justice-minister-jean-marc-fournier-says-province-wont-pay-costs-of-new-federal-crime-bill-111101/#ixzz1oxR05oU3

Federal prison closures blasted by union
The federal government is closing two facilities in Kingston, Ont., and one in Laval, Que. Source:http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/04/19/pol-prison-closing-toews.html

Vic Toews’ bizarre plan to introduce his own personal inflation rate to prison. He wants them to contribute 32% of their income. At 32%, it’s higher than the top federal tax rate of 29%, which applies to incomes over $132,000. So, under the Tory plan, prisoners making $260 a year will hand over more of their income than people making 500 times that much. This, says Toews, will “restore balance” to the system. Source: http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/05/10/vic-toews-bizarre-plan-to-introduce-his-own-personal-inflation-rate-to-prison/


********NATIONAL EMERGENCY***********
ALL REFERENCES /SOURCES ATTACHED BELOW:
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Canada is in a National emergency, that's the truth. The Harper government has declared the Canadian people to be enemies of the state and most people don't even know it.

Harper meets with Chinese propaganda minister secretly in Ottawa.
source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/harper-quietly-holds-face-to-face-talks-with-chinese-propaganda-chief/article2409475/?utm_medium=Feeds%3A+RSS%2FAtom&utm_source=Politics&utm_content=2409475

Stephen Harper thinks Canada is a dictatorship and even wrote about it- courtesy of the CBC
So, let's consider that obscure but intriguing article, written in 1997 by two brainy conservatives, Tom Flanagan and Stephen Harper. Yes, it calls Canada "a benign dictatorship."
Source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadavotes2011/story/2011/03/30/cv-milewski-harper-coalition.html

Enemies of the State:
It seems hard to imagine today that a Canadian government would approve a plan to round up thousands of law-abiding Canadians and lock them away simply because they were perceived to be a threat to Canadian democracy.
CBC Fifth estate: http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/2010-2011/enemiesofthestate/

The government of Canada has been hijacked
conservatives re-brand the Canadian government in Stephen Harper’s name
source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/tories-re-brand-government-in-stephen-harpers-name/article1929175/

Harper Government broke the law when dismantling Wheat Board: Federal Court, This will allow corporate GMO companies to take over Canada:http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/12/07/government-broke-the-law-when-dismantling-wheat-board-federal-court/

Harper Government labels environmentalists "terrorist threat" in new report
http://www.vancouverobserver.com/sustainability/2012/02/10/are-canadian-environmentalists-terrorist-threat

Under Harper's government: CSIS and RCMP equate Greenpeace and PETA with terrorists
source: http://news.sympatico.ca/oped/coffee-talk/csis_and_rcmp_equate_greenpeace_and_peta_with_terrorists/c166a26d

Terrorism Monitor Closely Watched Occupy Canada Protests
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/04/10/terrorism-monitor-closely_n_1414568.html

Under Harper's government
Natives decry military's comparison of protests to terrorism
source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/natives-decry-militarys-comparison-of-protests-to-terrorism/article2200798/

Harper government’s muzzle on federal scientists
source: http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1139734--prestigious-science-journal-slams-harper-government-s-muzzle-on-federal-scientists

Harper's public safety minister Vic Toews said 'Your With us or with the child pornographers' if you were opposed to bill C-30 which is spying on ALL Canadians including your internet access and cellphone records all without warrants. source:http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/john-ibbitson/with-us-or-with-the-child-pornographers-doesnt-cut-it-mr-toews/article2337425/

Harper's Public Safety Minister Vic Toews announced a new anti-terrorism strategy that identifies as threats eco-extremists, animal-rights radicals and anti-capitalists. source: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/security-services-deem-environmental-animal-rights-groups-extremist-threats/article2340162/

Macleans Magazine: Harper's promise: a warrantless online surveillance state source:http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/04/13/harpers-promise-a-warrantless-online-surveillance-state/

**MUST WATCH**
WARNING: Harper/Toews want 1984 Big Brother Government
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhlfL9iwxu4

CBC News: Online surveillance bill opens door for Big Brother
Section 34 gives Orwellian powers to government-appointed 'inspectors'
source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/02/16/pol-vp-terry-milewski-bill-c30.html

Toronto Sun: Say hello to Big Brother Harper Government
source: http://www.torontosun.com/2012/02/14/say-hello-to-big-brother-government

Stephen Harper breaks election rules, campaigns on radio on election day
source: http://www.examiner.com/canada-headlines-in-canada/stephen-harper-breaks-election-rules-campaigns-on-radio-on-election-day

Conservative Party fined for breaking election laws
source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/11/10/pol-conservative-election-in-and-out.html

Conservative Party may have broken election law
http://www.brockpress.com/news/external-news/conservative-party-may-have-broken-election-law-1.2828426#.T3QbGdXO-So

Stephen Harper's closest advisor Bruce Carson was convicted on five counts of fraud -- three more than previously known -- and received court-ordered psychiatric treatment before becoming one of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's closest advisers. And his lawyer told The Canadian Press that Carson disclosed his entire criminal record during a security check that was required to become a senior staffer in the Prime Minister's Office.
source: http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20110403/carson-pm-fraud-110403/#ixzz1qUZMcgq3

Can't forget Harper's $1Billion dollar security summit which hijacked Toronto and led to the most violations of civil rights and most mass arrests in Canadian history

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