What you say is absolute nonsense!!
Your just a Harper Hater!!
Harper had done more in this parliament sitting alone than Chreitian (sp?) did in the 13 years that he was was PM.
Harper is being very strategic in the way he is managing this great country. All the more power to him!!
To suggest the floods are due to man made climate change is just plain stupid!! Volcanoes alone contribute more than man ever will.
Suggest you get over your Harper hating syndrome and learn to enjoy the great benefits this country has to offer and accept the fact Harper is going to be around for a while!!
All the more power to him!!
Meanwhile back in the real world.
The reason that Harper got elected into a minority government in the first place was this democratic crisis that was supposed to exist in late 2005. He made a coalition with the NDP and the
Bloq to bring down the Martin government
on the issue of transparency and accountability. In early 2006 Harper and the conservatives deliberately violated elections laws to win a bare minority. The very first step Harper took was to make a Liberal MP into a conservative MP against the wishes of the voters in Vancouver-Kingsway. For someone who only weeks earlier was so concerned about the democratic deficit it was a startling turnaround...and it didn't end there.
The press was restricted in its access to cabinet ministers and the PM and a covert campaign began almost immediately to sabotage Parliament and destroy the reputation of opposition leaders. Sure it's strategic, it's also one of the most extreme methodologies of gaining control in this country. It certainly isn't democratic and it's most likely not for the benefit of most people in this country.
Most of us were left without effective representation as Harper and his caucus began treating anyone who wasn't with them as the enemy, you're right it is very strategic, it's also very damaging to a Parliamentary democracy that goes back over 100 years, Harper's solution to the democratic deficit he seemed so concerned about in 2005 was apparently to do away with key features of our democracy.
Left with little avenue to speak to power, Canadian citizens are supposed to have the right to free assembly for
peaceful protest. Harper's reaction was to plant agent provocateurs within crowds at conferences like SPP and G20. People who were there for peaceful demonstrations had not only their right to protest fundamental changes to Canadian society removed, they also had their safety put at risk.
Police Provocateurs stopped by union leader at anti SPP protest - YouTube
Quebec police admit they went undercover at Montebello protest - Canada - CBC News
Quebec provincial police admitted Thursday that three of their officers disguised themselves as demonstrators during the protest at the North American leaders summit in Montebello, Que.
It's very disturbing that people who were entrusted to protect citizens of Canada who after all paid for salaries acted in such a vicious manner towards them at the behest of the government. This is the kind of thing the brownshirts did under Hitler and the Bolsheviks did to carry out their coup in post Revolutionary Russia. Harper is being strategic, the only problem is we're the enemy in his twisted world view.
How about in Toronto a few years back when we picked up the more than $1 billion bill so that Harper could grandstand and much of the downtown got torn up by the same kind of "anarchists" who used many of the same techniques and wore the same equipment as the police agent provocateurs at Montebello.
EXPOSED! G20 Toronto Police Agent Provocateurs in Video and Photos - WATCH @ 2:35 for total proof - YouTube
So do we have more accountability and transparency now under seven years of Harper?
No, the PMO is virtually opaque unless there's a major scandal that bleeds over into the rest of Canadian society like robocalls and senate expense fraud and coverup.
Even respectable conservatives like Brent Rathgeber have left the conservative caucus due to the almost total lack of respect for Parliamentary democracy by Harper and his unelected staff.
Conservative MPs used like 'trained seals,' Rathgeber says - Politics - CBC News
Alberta MP Brent Rathgeber said he has left the Conservative caucus in part because of the control Prime Minister Stephen Harper's office exercises over backbench MPs, which was preventing him from representing his constituents.
The former Tory MP, who announced he was quitting late Wednesday night to sit as an Independent, said staff in Harper's office — who are "half my age" — pressure the caucus to obey their talking points and vote "like trained seals."
"When you have a PMO that tightly scripts its backbenches like this one attempts to do, MPs don't represent their constituents in Ottawa, they represent the government to their constituents," he told reporters.
This is the opposite of how democracies are supposed to work, Harper is taking one of the greatest developments in human culture and slowing destroying the foundations all our freedoms are based on, this isn't the action of a great leader, it's the mindless work of a vandal.
His economic policies are almost certainly going to cause, economic, social and ecological devastation as it's becoming more obvious every day that we can't continue business as usual. Even if climate change is a hard issue to communicate the hazards of, an entire downtown of a Canadian town going up in flames from a massive crude oil spill isn't. We're putting all our eggs in one basket with the Harper government and when the inevitable collapse of the tar sands project happens, what will we do then.
1 dead, many missing after Quebec train blasts - Canada - CBC News
The train, which was carrying crude oil, rolled away overnight after it was parked by an engineer. It derailed in the heart of the small town in Quebec's Eastern Townships, forcing close to 2,000 people from their homes.
Good luck in convincing people in BC and the US that transporting crude oil in huge amounts daily is safe.
The idiot in charge of the rail company was making jokes about the disaster, how long to you think people will put up with this kind of insanity, most of us have had enough already.
It just goes on and on.
It's not hatred of anybody that motivates me but distress over what's being destroyed by people who are so out of touch with reality they actually think what they're doing is good. What are we going to be left with but a wasteland?
