Voting Conservative? Here is the track record you will be endorsing: 1. Electoral fraud in 2011 and involved in irregular elections in both 2006 and 2008 2. Contempt of parliament 3. Multiple prorogations of parliament to avoid confidence motions 4. More than 150 billion dollars of debt 5. Eight straight deficits 6. C-51. 7. Cut 36 billion from health care 8. Northern Gateway approved despite an ongoing court case with First Nations and an illegitimate environmental review. 9. Anti-democratic omnibus "budget" bills (such as C-38 and C-45) that were more meant to gut environmental legislation than take care of financial matters. 10. The “Fair Elections Act” which makes it harder for traditional non-Harper voters to cast ballots. 11. Bill C-24, which created two-tiered citizenship for Canadians 12. Sabotaged international climate negotiations and failed to meaningfully reduce Canada's emissions 13. Clandestine trade deals such as FIPA with China, and CETA with Europe 14. Attacked the CBC and stacked its board with Conservative donors 15. Went after a disproportionate number of environmental and social justice charities 16. Gagged and fired government scientists in the area of climate science 17. The Senate scandal(Duffy, Meredith, Brazeau and others) 18. Handling of the F-35 situation 19. Eliminated the long form census 20. Spent more than 750 million dollars on advocacy advertising for such things as "Canada's Economic Action Plan", including promoting legislation not yet passed in parliament 21. Ongoing sales of arms to the Saudis, one of the most repressive regimes in the world 22. Cancelled the Kelowna Accord and has shown complete contempt for working with our Native People. 23. Continued to slash foreign aid and merged the Canadian International Development Agency with the Department of Foreign Affairs. 24. Sold the Canadian Wheat Board to the Saudis 25. Increased spending on prisons despite a forty year low in crime. 26. Closed down Veterans offices 27. War with ISIS. 28. Withdrew from virtually every international treaty we were part of 29. Lost out on a seat on the UN Security Council 30. Spent a billion dollars on the G8/G20 summit. 31. Unconditional support for Israel and possible hate crime charges for criticizing Israeli foreign policy 32. Refused to participate in nationally televised leaders debates. 33. Removed the per-vote subsidy to stack elections odds in Conservatives favour. 34. Shut down debate in parliament more than a hundred times 35. Closed coast guard stations 36. Ended Canada Post delivery in urban areas. 37. The Omar Khadr situation 38. Weakened pesticide regulations 39. Fired Linda Keen for reporting an unsafe nuclear reactor 40. Refused to sign the UN declaration on water being a human right, and UN declaration on rights of indigenous people. 41. Reneged on promise to stop billions in oil subsidies 42. The only country who withdrew from the Kyoto Protocol 43. Elimination of the long gun registry, and retroactively rewrote gun registry to avoid RCMP charges 44. Broke the Atlantic Accord 45. Passed C-36, a law that will likely put women involved in the sex trade at greater risk. 46. Cancelled the home energy retrofit program. 47. Income splitting implemented, despite only helping 15% of the population. 48. Cutbacks to food inspection services. 49. Dean Del Mastro, Bruce Carson, Bev Oda, Chuck Cadman, Arthur Porter 50. Repeatedly being in violation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and fighting with Supreme Court
NDP will bring back the gun registry and infringe on the civil rights of law abiding gun owners.While the conservative record is not admirable it would be much worse under the NDP.
Voting for a party, simply because of their policy on gun control, and ignoring all the other factor involved in the big picture, demonstrates the level of intelligence in the electorate that Harper is counting on. For me, the "civil rights" of gun owners means nothing, nothing. I'm more concerned with protecting people in universities, movie theatres, schools, and simply living their daily lives from the insanity of shootings and murder that we're seeing in the USA, where "civil rights" of gun owners are sickeningly placed above the safety of common people. Go ahead, vote Harper, and when it's YOUR family member that gets gunned down by some psycho, remember the day you voted........ and by the way, where did you find out that the NDP plans to bring back the gun registry? First I've heard of it. Probably more lies being spread by Harper's political machine, trying to scare voters away from the polls, same as this nonsense about "terrorists" behind every bush and under every rock. I'm still laughing about that coward hiding in the broom closet, behind the women. This is supposed to be a "leader"? STOP HARPER
joan bryden the canadian press Last updated Wednesday, Dec. 03, 2014 4:55PM EST A New Democrat government would ensure police are able to track every firearm in Canada, but would also seek to avoid the pitfalls that made the now-defunct long-gun registry so controversial, Tom Mulcair said Wednesday.
The NDP leader disputed the Conservative government’s contention that gun registration is an unfair, onerous requirement for law-abiding gun owners.
Thank You 1:42 PM, for pointing out that an NDP government would seek to control firearms, not that they intend to re-establish the gun registry. This is how the Harper Conservatives operate--- Take a statement, twist it around to say something that it doesn't, and then claim it to be a "true fact", in order to promote their own agenda and attempt to discredit their opposition. In short, the Conservatives are liars.
THUNDER BAY -- Even though both Thunder Bay MPs were punished for breaking rank with the NDP over abolishing the long gun registry back in 2011, Tom Mulcair says he won't re-introduce the registry if the NDP forms the next government.
The NDP Leader made the comment to reporters in Thunder Bay on Sunday after speaking at a rally of around 300 people.
"We will not be bringing in a long gun registry. It was a failure," Mulcair said.
"We will make sure the police have the tools to do their job safely but there's no question for the NDP to bring in a long gun registry."
There are few ridings in Canada where the NDP's position on gun registration has had more of an impact than those in Thunder Bay.
In November 2011, then-interim-Leader Nycole Turmel whipped NDP MPs to vote against a Conservative bill to scrap the long gun registry.
That spring's election had brought the NDP enormous gains in Quebec. For urban voters there, the registry was perceived as a legacy response to the 1989 Montreal Massacre, in which a man shot and killed 14 female students and injured 15 others at Ecole Polytechnique.
Detractors argued the program cost taxpayers over $2 billion and many rural residents across Canada had opposed it since it was introduced in 1995.
Both Thunder Bay-Superior North MP Bruce Hyer and Thunder Bay-Rainy River MP John Rafferty argued their consitutents strongly wanted them to vote with the Conservatives to abolish the registry. Rafferty claimed 96 per cent of people he surveyed wanted it scrapped.
When the NDP whipped the vote, Hyer and Rafferty disobeyed their party on all three of the bill's readings.
In response, the NDP removed both MPs from committees and they were not allowed to ask questions during Question Period for five months.
Mulcair was elected to lead the NDP on March 24, 2012. Hyer was left out of Mulcair's shadow cabinet and left the NDP to sit as an independent within the month, claiming the new leader told him to vote with the party on all issues.
Two months before Hyer joined the Green Party in December of 2013, he introduced a Private Member's Bill that would oblige anyone selling or transferring a firearm to ensure the recipient had a valid possession and acquisition license.
I heard Harper on TV today....... pointing out that the solution to first nations issues is harsher penalties in criminal matters. Shameful, but it shows all too clearly how he views aboriginal people. Hey Harper, getting you re-elected isn't really high on our radar!
It should be noted that the Harper Conservatives, including the racists Harper, Kenny, local canditate John Duncan, and the entire Conservative caucus have made it clear that the deaths of over 1,100 first nations women are an issue of no great importance to them. As Harper said, "it's not really high on our radar", while displaying a snide grin. Conservative.... the "good ole boys white party"..... (with a few "token" minorities thrown in to make it look good, like our joke of an Environment minister). STOP HARPER!
All the good paying jobs are gone. Common people are further in debt than they've ever been. Records have been set in the amount of the national debt. All future planning was tied to oil revenues, which as we know, have crashed and aren't coming back anytime soon. We're involved in a money sucking foreign war, with no exit strategy. Temporary foreign workers are being shipped into the country to fill jobs that resident Canadians want and need. The gap between the rich 1% and the rest of the people is constantly widening. Unemployment ststistics are so clouded, abstracted, twisted and outright lied about, that no one really realizes what sad shape the country is in. University graduates cannot find jobs, not only high tech good paying jobs, but ANY job. Infrastructure is crumbling, eroding, wearing out, and is not being replaced or maintained........ No jobs, no money, huge debt, no future, no hope,... and Harper thinks we should re-elect him on his economic record. You gotta be kidding. STOP HARPER!
Back in 2012, under pressure from big oil lobbyists, the Harper Government changed the National Energy Board Act to limit community consultation and democratic input into the hearings on fossil fuel projects -- such as the Kinder Morgan oil pipeline. They changed the rules so that no one is even allowed to mention climate change! The move allows them to recklessly fast-track dangerous projects and ignore community concerns.
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ReplyDeleteVoting Conservative? Here is the track record you will be endorsing:
ReplyDelete1. Electoral fraud in 2011 and involved in irregular elections in both 2006 and 2008
2. Contempt of parliament
3. Multiple prorogations of parliament to avoid confidence motions
4. More than 150 billion dollars of debt
5. Eight straight deficits
6. C-51.
7. Cut 36 billion from health care
8. Northern Gateway approved despite an ongoing court case with First Nations and an illegitimate environmental review.
9. Anti-democratic omnibus "budget" bills (such as C-38 and C-45) that were more meant to gut environmental legislation than take care of financial matters.
10. The “Fair Elections Act” which makes it harder for traditional non-Harper voters to cast ballots.
11. Bill C-24, which created two-tiered citizenship for Canadians
12. Sabotaged international climate negotiations and failed to meaningfully reduce Canada's emissions
13. Clandestine trade deals such as FIPA with China, and CETA with Europe
14. Attacked the CBC and stacked its board with Conservative donors
15. Went after a disproportionate number of environmental and social justice charities
16. Gagged and fired government scientists in the area of climate science
17. The Senate scandal(Duffy, Meredith, Brazeau and others)
18. Handling of the F-35 situation
19. Eliminated the long form census
20. Spent more than 750 million dollars on advocacy advertising for such things as "Canada's Economic Action Plan", including promoting legislation not yet passed in parliament
21. Ongoing sales of arms to the Saudis, one of the most repressive regimes in the world
22. Cancelled the Kelowna Accord and has shown complete contempt for working with our Native People.
23. Continued to slash foreign aid and merged the Canadian International Development Agency with the Department of Foreign Affairs.
24. Sold the Canadian Wheat Board to the Saudis
25. Increased spending on prisons despite a forty year low in crime.
26. Closed down Veterans offices
27. War with ISIS.
28. Withdrew from virtually every international treaty we were part of
29. Lost out on a seat on the UN Security Council
30. Spent a billion dollars on the G8/G20 summit.
31. Unconditional support for Israel and possible hate crime charges for criticizing Israeli foreign policy
32. Refused to participate in nationally televised leaders debates.
33. Removed the per-vote subsidy to stack elections odds in Conservatives favour.
34. Shut down debate in parliament more than a hundred times
35. Closed coast guard stations
36. Ended Canada Post delivery in urban areas.
37. The Omar Khadr situation
38. Weakened pesticide regulations
39. Fired Linda Keen for reporting an unsafe nuclear reactor
40. Refused to sign the UN declaration on water being a human right, and UN declaration on rights of indigenous people.
41. Reneged on promise to stop billions in oil subsidies
42. The only country who withdrew from the Kyoto Protocol
43. Elimination of the long gun registry, and retroactively rewrote gun registry to avoid RCMP charges
44. Broke the Atlantic Accord
45. Passed C-36, a law that will likely put women involved in the sex trade at greater risk.
46. Cancelled the home energy retrofit program.
47. Income splitting implemented, despite only helping 15% of the population.
48. Cutbacks to food inspection services.
49. Dean Del Mastro, Bruce Carson, Bev Oda, Chuck Cadman, Arthur Porter
50. Repeatedly being in violation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and fighting with Supreme Court
I'll vote conservative, just because of no. 43
ReplyDeleteNDP will bring back the gun registry and infringe on the civil rights of law abiding gun owners.While the conservative record is not admirable it would be much worse under the NDP.
ReplyDeleteVoting for a party, simply because of their policy on gun control, and ignoring all the other factor involved in the big picture, demonstrates the level of intelligence in the electorate that Harper is counting on. For me, the "civil rights" of gun owners means nothing, nothing. I'm more concerned with protecting people in universities, movie theatres, schools, and simply living their daily lives from the insanity of shootings and murder that we're seeing in the USA, where "civil rights" of gun owners are sickeningly placed above the safety of common people. Go ahead, vote Harper, and when it's YOUR family member that gets gunned down by some psycho, remember the day you voted........ and by the way, where did you find out that the NDP plans to bring back the gun registry? First I've heard of it. Probably more lies being spread by Harper's political machine, trying to scare voters away from the polls, same as this nonsense about "terrorists" behind every bush and under every rock. I'm still laughing about that coward hiding in the broom closet, behind the women. This is supposed to be a "leader"? STOP HARPER
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ReplyDeletethe canadian press
Last updated Wednesday, Dec. 03, 2014 4:55PM EST
A New Democrat government would ensure police are able to track every firearm in Canada, but would also seek to avoid the pitfalls that made the now-defunct long-gun registry so controversial, Tom Mulcair said Wednesday.
The NDP leader disputed the Conservative government’s contention that gun registration is an unfair, onerous requirement for law-abiding gun owners.
Thank You 1:42 PM, for pointing out that an NDP government would seek to control firearms, not that they intend to re-establish the gun registry. This is how the Harper Conservatives operate--- Take a statement, twist it around to say something that it doesn't, and then claim it to be a "true fact", in order to promote their own agenda and attempt to discredit their opposition. In short, the Conservatives are liars.
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ReplyDeleteTHUNDER BAY -- Even though both Thunder Bay MPs were punished for breaking rank with the NDP over abolishing the long gun registry back in 2011, Tom Mulcair says he won't re-introduce the registry if the NDP forms the next government.
The NDP Leader made the comment to reporters in Thunder Bay on Sunday after speaking at a rally of around 300 people.
"We will not be bringing in a long gun registry. It was a failure," Mulcair said.
"We will make sure the police have the tools to do their job safely but there's no question for the NDP to bring in a long gun registry."
There are few ridings in Canada where the NDP's position on gun registration has had more of an impact than those in Thunder Bay.
In November 2011, then-interim-Leader Nycole Turmel whipped NDP MPs to vote against a Conservative bill to scrap the long gun registry.
That spring's election had brought the NDP enormous gains in Quebec. For urban voters there, the registry was perceived as a legacy response to the 1989 Montreal Massacre, in which a man shot and killed 14 female students and injured 15 others at Ecole Polytechnique.
Detractors argued the program cost taxpayers over $2 billion and many rural residents across Canada had opposed it since it was introduced in 1995.
Both Thunder Bay-Superior North MP Bruce Hyer and Thunder Bay-Rainy River MP John Rafferty argued their consitutents strongly wanted them to vote with the Conservatives to abolish the registry. Rafferty claimed 96 per cent of people he surveyed wanted it scrapped.
When the NDP whipped the vote, Hyer and Rafferty disobeyed their party on all three of the bill's readings.
In response, the NDP removed both MPs from committees and they were not allowed to ask questions during Question Period for five months.
Mulcair was elected to lead the NDP on March 24, 2012. Hyer was left out of Mulcair's shadow cabinet and left the NDP to sit as an independent within the month, claiming the new leader told him to vote with the party on all issues.
Two months before Hyer joined the Green Party in December of 2013, he introduced a Private Member's Bill that would oblige anyone selling or transferring a firearm to ensure the recipient had a valid possession and acquisition license.
It was read only once.
I heard Harper on TV today....... pointing out that the solution to first nations issues is harsher penalties in criminal matters. Shameful, but it shows all too clearly how he views aboriginal people. Hey Harper, getting you re-elected isn't really high on our radar!
ReplyDeleteIt should be noted that the Harper Conservatives, including the racists Harper, Kenny, local canditate John Duncan, and the entire Conservative caucus have made it clear that the deaths of over 1,100 first nations women are an issue of no great importance to them. As Harper said, "it's not really high on our radar", while displaying a snide grin. Conservative.... the "good ole boys white party"..... (with a few "token" minorities thrown in to make it look good, like our joke of an Environment minister). STOP HARPER!
ReplyDeleteAll the good paying jobs are gone. Common people are further in debt than they've ever been. Records have been set in the amount of the national debt. All future planning was tied to oil revenues, which as we know, have crashed and aren't coming back anytime soon. We're involved in a money sucking foreign war, with no exit strategy. Temporary foreign workers are being shipped into the country to fill jobs that resident Canadians want and need. The gap between the rich 1% and the rest of the people is constantly widening. Unemployment ststistics are so clouded, abstracted, twisted and outright lied about, that no one really realizes what sad shape the country is in. University graduates cannot find jobs, not only high tech good paying jobs, but ANY job. Infrastructure is crumbling, eroding, wearing out, and is not being replaced or maintained........ No jobs, no money, huge debt, no future, no hope,... and Harper thinks we should re-elect him on his economic record. You gotta be kidding. STOP HARPER!
ReplyDeleteJobs filled by TFWs are counted by StatsCan as jobs created....
ReplyDeleteBack in 2012, under pressure from big oil lobbyists, the Harper Government changed the National Energy Board Act to limit community consultation and democratic input into the hearings on fossil fuel projects -- such as the Kinder Morgan oil pipeline. They changed the rules so that no one is even allowed to mention climate change! The move allows them to recklessly fast-track dangerous projects and ignore community concerns.
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