242 and mounting transgressions of Harper and the Harper government

ORIGINALLY POSTED IN 2013

(UPDATED October 8, 2015) More transgressions to be included in next update

Compiled by Joan Russow, Global Compliance Research Project

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UPDATED;  April 11, and incorporated  with another list which was compiled by " Driving the Porcelain bus" and  prepared before tha last election.

 http://drivingtheporcelainbus.blogspot.ca/2010/01/harper-attack-on-canadian-democracy.html?

A. ESCALATING THE DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT

B. FOSTERING MILITARISM

C. ENTERING INTO SPURIOUS TRADE AGREEMENTS SUCH AS FIPPA WITH CHINA AND CETA WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION AND TPPS ETC. AND INTO EGREGIOUS BANKING SCHEMES 

D. DESTROYING THE ENVIRONMENT

General, precautionary principle, mining, hazardous material, pipelines, spills, tarsands, marine creatures, fracking, omnibus bill 38

E. CONTRIBUTING TO UNDERMINING THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

F. VIOLATING HUMAN RIGHTS

including labour rights, women’s rights civil and political rights, indigenous rights, social and cultural rights – right to food, right to housing, right to safe drinking water and sewage, right to education and right to universally accessible not for profit health care system;

G. ENTRENCHING CORPORATISM

H. DEFYING iNTERNATIONAL LAW

A

ESCALATING THE DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT

WE DENOUNCE HARPER AND THE HARPER GOVERNMENT

1. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR USING FRAUDULENT MEANS FOR ACCEDING TO POWER: FROM THEIR 2006 IN-AND OUT FUNDING SCHEME TO THEIR USE, IN 2011, OF ROBO CALLS

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7946:a-mockery-of-justice-conservatives-should-be-prosecuted-not-rewarded-for-their-violation-of-the-elections-act&catid=75:cjustice-news&Itemid=218

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2011/11/10/tories_plead_guilty_in_campaign_financing_case.html

2.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR EXTENDING THE PERIOD  WHICH WILL ENABLE HIS PARTY TO OUTSPEND THE OTHER PARTIES

Will Canada now become known as the second best “democracy” that money can buy?

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10308:will-canada-now-become-known-as-the-second-best-democracy-that-money-can-buy&catid=75:cjustice-news&Itemid=218

3.HARPER AND THE PMO FOR FUNCTIONING WITHIN A CODE OF SILENCE

 Harper and the PMO trial – The code of silence from 2006 to 2015

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10339:-harper-and-the-pmo-trial-the-code-of-silence-from-2006-to-2015&catid=99:c-blogs&Itemid=224

4.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR PASSING THE SO-CALLED “FAIR ELECTIONS” ACT WHICH PROVIDE NEW FUNDING LOOPHOLES, UNDERMINES THE ROLE OF THE CHIEF ELECTORAL OFFICER, PLACES THE ELECTORAL COMMISSIONER THE ATTORNEY GENERALS OFFICE WITHOUT HAVING POWER TO COMPEL WITNESSES, AND ABOVE ALL SUPPRESSES THE VOTE BY REMOVING PROCEDURES THAT FACILITATE THE VOTE.

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9801:-breaking-were-taking-the-unfair-elections-act-to-court&catid=75:cjustice-news&Itemid=218

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/06/26/stephen-harper-charter-rights_n_5534875.html

8.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR BETRAYING AN ABYSMALLY INACCURATE VIEW OF FUNDAMENTAL CONSTITUTIONAL REALITIES,” FOR UNDERMINING THE RIGHT CONDUCT OF PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY.

http://www.revparl.ca/english/issue.asp?param=208&art=1459

9.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR UNDERMINING ACCESS TO INFORMATION

https://cjfe.org/resources/features/new-report-hollow-right-access-information-crisis

10. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR REWRITING THE LAW SO THAT THE OFFENCE DIDN’T EXIST AT THE TIME IT MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE BEEN COMMITTED.

In a special report issued last week, federal Information Commissioner Suzanne Legault revealed that, in March, she recommended charges be laid against the RCMP for the withholding and destroying of long-gun registry data that was part of an active access-to- information request.

It seems, in a move that Ms. Legault warned sets a “perilous precedent,” the Conservative government responded to her recommendation by rewriting the law so that the offence didn’t exist at the time it may or may not have been committed.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/columnists/on-the-gun-registry-the-tories-think-they-can-break-the-laws-of-physics/article24566117/7.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR SPENDING 1.2 BILLION ON THE “SPY PALACE” FOR THE COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY ESABLISHMENT CANADA (CSEC)

11.Inside Canada's top-secret billion-dollar spy palace - Politics ...

www.cbc.ca/.../inside-canada-s-top-secret-billion-dollar-spy-palace-1.19...

12.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR PERMITTING CSEC TO

ESTABLISH COVERT SURVEILLANCE OPERATIONS WORLDWIDE AS PART OF NSA GLOBAL SPYING APPARATUS

http://www.globalresearch.ca/canadian-spy-agency-establishes-covert-surveillance-operations-worldwide-as-part-of-nsa-global-spying-apparatus/5361566

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/05/13/canada_actively_spies_for_nsa_new_book_says.html

14.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR EMBARKING UPON INCREASED INTRUSIVE SURVEILLANCE OF CANADIAN CITIZEN AND FOR SHARING “INTELLIGENCE WITH OTHER STATES

https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/monitor/massive-secret-surveillance-canada

15.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR EXPANDING POLICE SURVEILLANCE POWERS

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/editorials/parliament-must-reject-harpers-secret-policeman-bill/article22729037/

16.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR INCREASING CSIS POWERS UNDER BILL C51

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/14c1550b102c59f9

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10153:c-51-need-to-redefine-what-constitutes-security-threats-and-terrorism&catid=75:cjustice-news&Itemid=218

17. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR BRINGING FORWARD WHAT LAWRENCE MARTIN CALLS THE “LOYALTY ACT”

” A CONSERVATIVE MP HAS BROUGHT FORWARD, WITH THE BLESSING OF THE PRIME MINISTER’S OFFICE, A BILL THAT WOULD REQUIRE PARLIAMENTARY WATCHDOGS AND ALL THEIR EMPLOYEES TO DISCLOSE PREVIOUS POLITICAL ACTIVITIES.

THE PERIOD OF DISCLOSURE WOULD COVER THE DECADE PREVIOUS TO THEIR APPOINTMENTS. THE LEGISLATION WOULD BE RETROACTIVE — MEANING ALL CURRENT EMPLOYEES WOULD EFFECTIVELY HAVE TO SUBMIT TO POLITICAL BACKGROUND CHECKS.”

LAWRENCE MARTIN

HTTP://WWW.IPOLITICS.CA/2014/01/15/NON-CONSERVATIVES-NEED-NOT-APPLY/ 

18.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR INCREASINGLY ABUSING ITS CONSTITUTIONAL POWERS AND CAUSING CANADA TO BECOME AN AUTOCRACY WITH FEW CHECKS AND BALANCES

https://www.pej.org/html/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=8440

19. HARPER FOR CENTRALIZING POWER IN STEPHEN HIS HANDS

Siddiqui: Harper acting like an elected dictator
https://www.thestar.com/comment/article/740829?bn=1

20. Gomery slams Harper for ignoring him
The man who investigated the sponsorship scandal says Prime Minister Stephen Harper seems to have abandoned any commitment he once had to transparent government in favour of a top-down style that centralizes power in his own hands.
http://www.marketingmag.ca/english/news/agency/article.jsp?content=20080131_777333_2206

21. Gomery slams increasing power of PM's office
https://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/345503

22. Failure to decentralize PMO power poses danger to democracy: Gomery
https://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/03/13/gomery-committee.html

23 THE HARPER GOVERNMENT'S MUZZLING CABINET MINISTERS, MPs, JUDGES, ETC and Controlling the Press

24. How Harper controls the spin
Zeal to manage message sees journalists shunned, bureaucrats, cabinet ministers routinely muzzled. Public appearances by cabinet ministers – whether it's a speech or an interview – are carefully staged, starting with a "message event proposal" vetted by the Privy Council Office, the bureaucratic wing of the Prime Minister's Office (PMO).
https://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/429906

25. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR TIGHTEN MUZZLE ON  PS [Public Service] for campaign
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=93e98b5c-593a-4eac-b835-a4359e80babd

26.Former chief justice of Canada accuses PM of trying to "muzzle" the judiciary
http://www.anticorruption.ca/forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4792&sid=44cad6d7756e9bd7010d182cb62e00da

 

27.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR MUZZLING FEDERAL SCIENTISTS, BY PREVENTING THE PRESENTING OF THEIR RESULTS WHICH WERE PAID FOR BY TAXPAYERS

http://sciencewriters.ca/initiatives/muzzling_canadian_federal_scientists/

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=47bf0fba-b98f-43fb-89fb-58b6464a7b24&k=65248

http://www.hour.ca/news/news.aspx?iIDArticle=8942


https://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2006/04/13/ambrose-climate.html

28. Mum's the word till message vetted
No federal cabinet minister speaks to a journalist, gives a speech or makes a policy announcement until a "message event proposal" has been vetted by a wing of the Prime Minister's Office.
https://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/429903

29.Canada slips in 'press freedom' rankings
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/712978--canada-slips-in-press-freedom-rankings

30. Harper lawsuit smacks of authoritarian state: prof
https://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/08/07/harper-lawsuit.html

31. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR CAUSING CANADA TO BE RANKED WORST OF G7 NATIONS IN FIGHTING BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION

theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canada-ranked-worst-of-g7-nations-in-fighting-bribery-corruption/article592312/

32.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR DISSOLVING PARLIAMENT TO EVADE THE INVESTIGATION INTO ITS IN-AND-OUT SCHEME, FOR

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7946:a-mockery-of-justice-conservatives-should-be-prosecuted-not-rewarded-for-their-violation-of-the-elections-act&catid=75:cjustice-news&Itemid=218

33.HARPER FOR DISREGARDING HIS LAWYER ,BENJAMIN PERRIN ADVICE ABOUT DUFFYèS NOT BEING ELIGIBLE   FOR AN APPOIN MENT TO THE SENATE

http://ottawacitizen.com/news/politics/harpers-lawyer-disagreed-with-him-on-senate-residency-rules

34.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR PROROGUING PARLIAMENT TO AVOID AN INVESTIGATION INTO CANADIAN COMPLICITY IN TORTURING AFGHANI REFUGEES, AND FOR PROROGUING PARLIAMENT TO PREVENT THE OPPOSITION FROM FORMING A COALITION

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7955&catid=75:cjustice-news&Itemid=218

35.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR USING OMNIBUS BILLS

WHICH HAVE PREVENTED IN DEPTH, MEANINGFUL DEBATE ON KEY ISSUES

http://rabble.ca/print/columnists/2015/02/deficit-harper-government-refuses-to-recognize|

3.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR GUTTING REGULATIONS FOR COAL IN OMNIBUS BILL C43 WITH changes to the Canada Marine Act

http://commonsensecanadian.ca/latest-harper-omnibus-bill-guts-regulations-coal-lng-ports/

38.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR PASSING THE OMNIBUS BILL C-38: THE ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION ACT

http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2012/05/10/Bill-C38/

39.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR USING THE OMNIBUS BILL 45 AND CHANGING THE NAVIGABLE WATERS PROTECTION ACT

THIS CHANGE REMOVES THOUSANDS OF LAKES AND STREAMS FROM FEDERAL PROTECTION UNDER THAT LAW.

http://www.ecojustice.ca/publications/files/envirolaw-watch/navigable-waters-protection-act-briefing/

40.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR PASSING OMNIBUS BILL 45 WHICH IMPACTS ON FIRST NATIONS

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/12/21/idle-no-more-bill-c-45-ottawa_n_2343396.html

41.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR PASSING OMNIBUS BILL C-43: A threat to environmental safety and democracy

http://wcel.org/sites/default/files/publications/Backgrounder%20Budget%20Bill%20C-43%20AJ%20to%20file%2014-12-04%20_backgrounder%20only_.pdf

42.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR SHOWING CONTEMPT OF PARLIAMENT AND FOR PARLIAMENTARY INSTITUTIONS SUCH AS PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8095&catid=75:cjustice-news&Itemid=218

43.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR DESTROYING FILES OF RAW DATA IN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND CLOSING KEY GOVERNMENT LIBRARIES

http://www.canadaspastmatters.ca/public-libraries/federal-library-cuts-and-closures.aspx

44. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR SCRAPPING THE LONG FORM CENSUS

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/tories-scrap-mandatory-long-census-1.888048

45HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR WAR ON DATA

http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/vanishing-canada-why-were-all-losers-in-ottawas-war-on-data/

HARPER GOVERNMENT TRASHES ANOTHER FEDERAL SCIENCE LIBRARY

http://media3.marketwire.com/docs/AG_LethbridgeLibrary_dumpster01.jpg

46. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR COMMITTING A KNOWLEDGE MASSACRE

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/capt-trevor-greene/science-cuts canada_b_4534729.html

47.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR MARGINALIZING THE OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL SCIENCE ADVISOR, AND CUTTING OF FUNDING FOR SCIENCE

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/04/30/science-cuts-muzzling-canada-conservatives_n_3112348.html

48.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR SLASHING FUNDING FOR SCIENTISTS IN RESEARCH INTO HEALTH

www.canada.com/story.html?id=68567994-1f34-4338-b878...

49THE HARPER GOCERNMENT FOR PROROGUING PARLIAMENT OVER AFGHAN DOCUMENTS 

https://www.cbc.ca/cp/national/091211/n1211113A.html
 

50.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR REFUSING TO RELEASE UNCENSORED DOCUMENTS ON AFGHAN  DETAINEES 
http://www.montrealgazette.com/Tories+refuse+release+uncensored+documents+Afghan+detainees/2330193/story.html

51.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR SHUTTING DOWN OF HEARING ON TORTURE [2009]

52.Opposition blasts boycott as whistleblower readies rebuttal to Ottawa today
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/afghanmission/article/739427

TURE 

53. THE HARPER GOVERNMENTFOR DROPPING RCMOP COMPLAINTS COMMISSSIONER

54. Paul Kennedy sparred with government over office's powers, budget
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/731775--tories-drop-rcmp-complaints-commissioner

55.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR RELEASING cOMMISSIONER AND BUDGET OFFICER

56.Budget officer [Kevin Page] questions projected federal surplus

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/canada/Budget+officer+questions+projected+surplus/1054174/story.html

If the object of the exercise was “truth in budgeting”, that’s what Kevin’s office provided. But that realism, whether in regard to rosy but flawed government fiscal forecasts or the true cost of the war in Afghanistan, has been a bit too much truth for this government. Mr. [Kevin] Page’s office has had its budget cut by one million dollars.
http://informedvote.ca/2009/11/07/our-parliamentary-budget-officer-kevin-page-%E2%80%93-a-canadian-hero/

57. HARPER FOR DEFANGING ANOTHER WATCHDOG  https://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2015/05/26/stephen-harper-defangs-another-watchdog.html

B.

 FOSTERING MILITARISM

WE DENOUNCE HARPER AND HIS GOVERNMENT

58.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR REMAKING CANADA INTO A WARRIOR NATION

OVERVIEW OF BOOK Warrior Nation, Canada's New Brand

Tyee: http://thetyee.ca/Books/2012/08/11/Warrior-Nation/

59. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR INCREASING INTEGRATION WITH THE UNITED STATES

CANADA, UNDER HARPER GOVERNMENTS, HAS INCREASINGLY CLOSE MILITARY INTEGRATION WITH US POLICY, AND ENTERED INTO AN AGREEMENT, CUTELY CALLED "SHIPRIDER PROGRAM"; THIS PROGRAM IS DESIGNED TO INCREASE BORDER SECURITY BY ALLOWING THE RCMP AND THE U.S. COAST GUARD TO TEAM UP AND RIDE IN EACH OTHERS VESSELS DURING BORDER PATROLS. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT HAS AGREED TO AN ENHANCED ROLE FOR NORAD. HARPER IS TO GO ANYWHERE, ANY PLACE AND AT ANY TIME AT THE BEHEST OF THE US POLICY OF PREVENTIVE/PRE-EMPTIVE AGGRESSION.

http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ibet-eipf/shiprider-eng.htm

60.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR USING THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT DOCTRINE TO JUSTIFY THE INVASION OF LIBYA AND SUPPORTED THE MISSION CREEP

http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2013/11/25/Libyan-Hell-After-Civil-War/

61. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR BEING ONE OF THE FEW COUNTRIES THAT SUPPORTED OBAMA`S INITIAL PROPOSAL TO INVADE SYRIA

www.cbc.ca/.../harper-and-obama-want-firm-response-to-syria-attack-1....

62.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR ABANDONING CANADA'S LONG STANDING ROLE OF A SANCTUARY FOR THOSE OPPOSED TO WAR AND FOR REJECTING US WAR RESISTERS

https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2010/08/20/iraq_war_resisters_meet_cool_reception_in_canada.html

63.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR TRIPPLING THE MILITARY BUDGET; IT HAS INCREASED THREEFOLD SINCE 2000; THE CURRENT BUDGET IS 30 BILLION, NOT INCLUDING THE FAR REACHING EXPENSES OF CANADA FIRST PLAN

http://www.forces.gc.ca/en/about/canada-first-defence-strategy.

64. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR ENGAGING IN MILITARY EXERCISES SUCH AS NATO”S EXERCISE TRIDENT FURY, AND NORTHCOM'S EXERCISE- AND FOR NOT OPPOSING THE INCREASED NORTHWEST TRAINING RANGE COMPLEX

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9129:exercise-trident-fury-2013-rogue-states-engaged-in-propaganda-for-war&catid=104:i-peace-news&Itemid=204

65.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR PERMITTING THE INFAMOUS CHILEAN TORTURE SHIP, THE ESMERALDA TO BERTH IN THE GREATER VICTORIA HARBOUR AND IN THE VANCOUVER HARBOUR.

http://www.straight.com/news/bc-residents-oppose-visit-chilean-navy-ship-la-esmeralda-vancouver

66.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR PERMITTING THE CONTINUED BERTHING AND CIRCULATING OF NUCLEAR POWERED AND NUCLEAR ARMS CAPABLE VESSELS IN THE GREATER VICTORIA HARBOUR

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9790:uss-nimitz-warship-should-be-projibited-in-canadian-waters-and-harbours&catid=104:i-peace-news&Itemid=204

67. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR CONTINUING TO HOST AND FOR EXPANDING CANSEC-THE INTERNATIONAL ARMS TRADE FAIR

“CANADA'S LARGEST WEAPONS BAZAAR. THOUSANDS OF BUYERS, SELLERS, USERS AND PROMOTERS OF THE LATEST TECHNOLOGIES FOR WAR AND REPRESSION WILL BE RUBBING SHOULDERS AT THIS HUGE, PRIVATE EVENT. CLOAKING THEMSELVES BEHIND A WALL OF DECEPTIVE EUPHEMISMS, LIKE "DEFENCE" AND "SECURITY," HUNDREDS OF HIGHLY-PROFITABLE CANADIAN CORPORATIONS WILL SHOWCASE THEIR DEADLY WARES”. (COALITION AGAINST THE ARMS TRADE)

https://pejnews.com/index.php?view=article&id=9190%3A-cansec-warfare-exhibit-in-ottawa-canada-has-become-an-international-war-

68.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR ADVOCATING THAT AT THE END OF CANADIAN COMBAT OPERATIONS IN AFGHANISTAN, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHOULD LOOK TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AS POTENTIAL BUYERS OF CANADIAN-MADE GUNS AND  MILITARY EQUIPMENT

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/01/05/canada-planning-to-sell-guns-and-military-equipment-to-developing-countries-to-maintain-domestic-arms-industry/

69.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR NOT SIGNING THE ARMS TRADE TREATY [EVEN THE US HAS SIGNED IT ALONG WITH 117 OTHER STATES; NINE STATES HAVE RATIFIED IT.]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/harper-refuses-to-sign-landmark-arms-trade-treaty/article14539869/

http://motherboard.vice.com/en_ca/read/canada-is-exporting-halo-helmets-and-drones?utm_source=Outbrain&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=MotherboardCanada

UPDATED DECEMBER 24 2014

70.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR NOT BEING ONE OF THE STATES RATIFYING THE CONVENTION WHEN ITCAME INTO FORCE

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-not-yet-among-60-countries-signing-treaty-on-arms-trade-1.1305053

71.  HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR ENTERING INTO A $15 BILLION DEAL WITH SAUDI ARABIATO SELL LIGHT ARMED VEHICLES

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10016:has-the-harper-governments-financial-opportunism-of-a-15-billion-arms-deal-to-saudi-arabia-trumped-canadas-willingness-to-be-a-party-to-the-arms-trade-treaty&catid=75:cjustice-news&Itemid=218

72.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR KEEPING LID ON DETAILS OF SAUDI ARMS DEAL  

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-wont-release-assesment-of-arms-deal-with-saudi-arabia/article24634202/

73.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR IGNORING THE BUDGET OFFICER ASSESSMENT OF THE COST OF THE F-35 JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER (JSF) AND FOR FAILING TO BE TRANSPARENT WITH THE OPPOSITION

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/budget-watchdog-accuses-tories-of-low-balling-f-35-cost/article4104618/

74.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR FUNDING, UNDER THE WESTERN DIVERSIFICATION PROGRAM, IN COLLABORATION WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA, A PROGRAM TO CARRY OUT RESEARCH AND PRODUCE DRONES WITH SYSTEMS THAT ARE CONFIGURABLE WITH MILITARY USES (DOCUMENT RECEIVED THROUGH ACCESS TO INFORMATION)

75.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR REVERSING, IN 2007, CANADA’S LONGSTANDING SUPPORT FOR A NUCLEAR ARMS FREE MIDDLE EAST. AND FOR REFUSING YET AGAIN, AT THE 2013 HIGH LEVEL MEETING ON NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, TO SUPPORT NUCLEAR ARMS FREE MIDDLE EAST. (FROM CANADIAN GOVERNMENT STATEMENTS AT THE NPT CONFERENCES AND FROM HIGH LEVEL MEETING AT UN IN NEW YORK)

76.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR DISMISSING THE ISRAELI ATTACK ON LEBANON AS A BEING “A MEASURED' RESPONSE." IN ADDITION, CANADA WAS ONE A FEW COUNTRIES THAT DID NOT CONDEMN THE DEADLY ISRAELI ATTACK IN INTERNATIONAL WATERS, ON THE HUMANITARIAN FLOTILLA.

http://www.socialist.ca/node/1442

http://rabble.ca/news/2010/06/israel-can-do-no-wrong-harpers-policy

77.T1HE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR SUPPORTING THE MURDEROUS ATTACK BY ISRAEL ON GAZA IN GAZA IN 2008-9, AN ATTACK WHICH KILLED OVER 1400 PALESTINIANS, MOSTLY CIVILIANS, AND WHICH WAS DENOUNCED IN THE GOLDSTONE REPORT TO THE UN AS VIOLATIONS AGAINST INTERNATIONAL LAW

http://www.crescent-online.net/2014/05/jewish-group-accuses-harper-government-of-hypocrisy-in-treatment-of-irfan-canada-ijv-canada-4444-articles.html

78.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR FAILING TO CONDEMN THE ILLEGAL BLOCKADE, OF GAZA BY ISRAEL, WHICH IS A VIOLATION ON INTERNATIONAL LAW AGAINST COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT.

http://rabble.ca/news/2010/06/israel-can-do-no-wrong-harpers-policy

79.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT  FOR THE TREATMENT OF AFGHAN PRISONERS, AND OF DIPLOMAT WHO APPEARED BEFORE THE COMMITTEE.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/03/10/treatment_of_afghan_prisoners_nearly_

toppled_harper_government.html

80.Torture probe delayed; Tories deny gagging witness

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/704155

81.Lawyers seek to gag witnesses in Afghan prisoner inquiry
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090929/taliban_prisoners_090929/20090929?hub=Canada

82.Has Canada entered a 'Bush-like vortex'?
Richard Colvin's torture allegations suggest civil servants aren't writing down what the government doesn't want recorded
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/has-canada-entered-a-bush-like-vortex/article1404311/

83. PMO issued instructions on denying abuse in '07
Former NATO official says response to reports was 'scripted' in Ottawa
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/afghanmission/article/729157--pmo-issued-instructions-on-denying-abuse-in-07

84.Tories attack credibility of diplomat who blew whistle on torture
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/tories-attack-credibility-of-diplomat-who-blew-whistle-on-torture/article1369993/

85.Attack on senior diplomat signals demise of independent public service: experts
"If we don’t have a public service that speaks truth to power we might as well have everything run out of the Prime Minister’s Office.”
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Attack+Colvin+signals+demise+independent+public+service/2283460/story.html

86.Diplomats told to keep quiet on torture allegations, sources say
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/diplomats-told-to-keep-quiet-on-torture-allegations-sources-say/article1367390/

87.Former ambassadors condemn Ottawa's attack on diplomat
Response to Colvin's detainee testimony discourages honest reports, letter says
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/former-ambassadors-condemn-ottawas-attack-on-diplomat/article1392248/

88.Public service in crisis over Colvin
The Harper government's attack on a senior diplomat could be the final blow in the unravelling of Canada's once-sacred tradition of an independent, non-partisan public service, warn experts
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Public+service+crisis+over+Colvin/2285239/story.html

89. Afghan detainee watchdog warns of Tory ‘chilling effect'
Depart. ing military commission chief's [BECAUSE HE WAS REFUSED REAPPOINTMENT BY THE TORIES] comments come as Harper government digs in its heels in face of parliamentary order to turn over confidential files
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/afghan-detainee-watchdog-warns-of-tory-chilling-effect/article1397570/

90.Detainee watchdog post remains unfilled
Military police commission set to meet in March, but Ottawa's delays in appointing new chairman could prompt delay
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/detainee-watchdog-post-remains-unfilled/article1428874/

91. Feds refuse legal funding to whistleblower diplomat
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20091027/whistleblower_legal_091027/20091027?hub=Canada

92.Ottawa's stance on whistleblower's legal costs called 'unethical'

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/716489--ottawa-s-stance-on-whistleblower-s-legal-costs-called-unethical

C.

ENTERING INTO SPURIOUS TRADE AGREEMENTS SUCH AS FIPPA WITH CHINA AND CETA WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION AND TPP; AND INTO EGREGIOUS BANKING SCHEMES

TRADE AGREEMENTS

WE DENOUNCE HARPER AND HIS GOVERNMENT

93.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR INCREASING GLOBALIZATION, DEREGULATION AND PRIVATIZATION THROUGH ITS SUPPORT FOR TRADE AGREEMENTS, SUCH AS THE WTO/FTAA/NAFTA, SPP, CETA, FIPA TPP; AS WELL AS BYLATERAL AGREEMENTS

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9737:-ceta-should-be-declared-null-and-void-for-violating-international-norms-pdf-print-e-mail-justice-news-posted-by-joan-russow-friday-18-october-2013-0706-ceta-should-be-declared-null-and-void-for-violating-international-norms-joan-russow-global-complianc&catid=74:ijustice-news&Itemid=216

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9916:fippa-should-be-declared-null-and-void-for-violating-international-peremptory-norms-pdf-print-e-mail-justice-news&catid=74:ijustice-news&Itemid=216

94.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR SIGNING ON TO FIPA

FIPA Should be declared null and void for violating international peremptory norms

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9916:fippa-should-be-declared-null-and-void-for-violating-international-peremptory-norms-pdf-print-e-mail-justice-news&catid=74:ijustice-news&Itemid=216

95. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR PURSUING  CETA

CETA should be declared null and void for violating international norms

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10238:g7summit-2015-ceta-must-be-declared-null-and-void-for-violating-international-peremptory-norms&catid=74:ijustice-news&Itemid=216

96.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR PURSUING  TPP

TPP should be declared null and void for violating international norms

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9512:-tpp-should-be-declared-null-and-void-for-violating-international-norms&catid=74:ijustice-news&Itemid=216

97.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR IGNORING NAFTA OBLIGATIONS BY ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ASSOCIATION

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/canada-accused-of-ignoring-nafta-obligations-by-environmental-law-association/article13778435/#dashboard/

98. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR BLOCKING NAFTA INVESTIGATION INTO BRITISH COLUMBIA FISH FARM IMPACTS ON WILD SALMON DECISION THREATENS SALMON RUNS ALONG ENTIRE PACIFIC COAST

http://bsnorrell.blogspot.ca/2014/12/canada-blocks-nafta-investigation-into.html

*fINANCIAL SCHEMES WIH BANKS

99.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR SUPPORTING THE G20  “BAIL-IN” BANKING SCHEME TO TAKE DEPOSITS AND PENSIONS

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ellen-brown/new-g20-bailin-rules-now-_b_6244394.html

D.

DESTROYING THE ENVIRONMENT

WE DENOUNCE HARPER AND HIS GOVERNMENT

PRINCIPLE

100.WE DENOUNCE THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR MISCONTRUING THE

INTERNATIONAL PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE

THE INTERNATIONAL VERSION OF THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE IS THE FOLLOWING;

WHERETHERE IS A THREAT OF IRREVERSIBLE HARM OR A THREAT OF LOSS OF BIODIVERSITY OR A THREAT TO HUMAN HEALTH, THE LACK OF FULL SCIENTIFIC CERTAINTY OF HARM SHOULD NOT BE USED AS A REASON TO POSTPONE MEASURES TO PREVENT THE THREAT.

IN CANADA THE WORDING IS

“THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE” RECOGNIZES THAT THE ABSENCE OF FULL SCIENTIFIC CERTAINTY” OF SAFETY SHALL NOT BE USED AS A REASON FOR POSTPONING DECISIONS

IN CANADA, THIS VERSION HAS RESULTED IN THE QUESTIONABLE APPROVAL OF GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOOD AND CROPS AND THE IGNORING OF YEARS OF INDEPENDENT RESEARCH INDICATING HARM. (FROM PETITION SUBMITTED TO THE COMMISSIONER OF THE ENVIRONMENT, AUGUST 2013)

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9536:enbridge-pipeline-the-panel-ignored-the-precautionary-principle-and-the-government-has-misconstrued-the-principle&catid=89:bc-earth-news&Itemid=213

INTERNAIONAL PARIAH

101. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR UNDERMING THE RESOLVE IN THE RIO+20 CONFERENCE TO ELIMINATE SUBSIDIES FOR FOSSIL FUELS

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9814:rio20-canada-the-deleter-of-key-principles-and-commitments&catid=86:i-earth-news&Itemid=210

102. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR WITHDRAWING FROM THE CONVENTION TO COMBAT DESERTIFICATION

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-quietly-pulls-out-of-un-anti-droughts-convention-1.1388320

103. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR WITHDRAWING FROM THE INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION TO COMBAT DESERTIFICATION AND DROUGHT AND FOR  NOT EMBARKING ON A NATIONAL PROGRAM TO PREVENT DROUGHT.

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10244:the-harper-government-was-negligent-in-withdrawing-from-the-international-convention-on-combating-desertification-and-drought&catid=87:c-earth-news&Itemid=212

104.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FORWITHDRAWING FROM THE KYOTO PROOCOL

http://o.canada.com/news/its-official-harper-government-withdraws-from-kyoto-climate-agreement

105.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR CONTINUALLY RECEIVING THE FOSSIL AWARD AND EVEN THE COLLOSAL FOSSIL AWARD FOR OBSTRUCTING

THE CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES AT THE UN FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7527&catid=86:i-earth-news&Itemid=210

106. THE HARPER GFOVERNMENT  FOR COMMITTING, FOR COP21, TO REDUCE ONLY 30% BELOW 2005 LEVELS BY 2030 WHILE THE EU IS WILLING TO MAKE A COMMITMENT TO REDUCE GREENHOUSE GASES BY 20% BELOW 1990 LEVELS BY 2020

107. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR  WEAKENING THE G7 STATEMENT ON CLIMATE CHANGE

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/g7-leaders-call-for-ending-fossil-fuel-use-by-end-of-century-merkel/article24840582/

108.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR MAKING 7 RESERVATIONS AT 2013 CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN ENDANGERED SPECIES

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/canada-opts-not-to-block-international-trade-in-76-endangered-species-1.2867437%

109. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR IGNORING NAFTA’S ENVIRONMENTAL LEGAL OBLIGATIONS

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/canada-accused-of-ignoring-nafta-obligations-by-environmental-law-association/article13778435/#dashboard/

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/01/12/nafta-oilsands-tar-sands-tailing-ponds_n_6454492.html

GENERAL

111.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR ARRANGING THAT

AFTER FEDERAL CHANGES TO WATERWAYS RULES, 90 PER CENT OF PROTECTED LAKES LAP ON CONSERVATIVE SHORES

HTTP://www.ottawacitizen.com/touch/story.html?id=7466027

112.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR SELLING CANADA'S FRESH WATER SUPPLY TO FRENCH COMPANIES?

 http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/maude-barlow/canada-eu-water-deal_b_4122048.html

113. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR BLOCKING THE PLACING OF ASBESTOS ON THE ROTTERDAM LIST OF DANGEROUS SUBSTANCES LIST.

114.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR NOT BANNING THE NEONICOTINOID PESTICIDES WHICH HAVE BEEN PROVEN TO HARM BEES, AND BIRDS

http://www.abcbirds.org/abcprograms/policy/toxins/Neonic_FINAL.pdf

115..THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR NOT BANNING MOTORIZED SEAWEED HARVESTING AND INSTITUTING A MORATORIUM ON NON-MORTORIZED HARVESTING

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9500:-open-letter-mechanizedindustrialized-seaweed-harvesting-must-be-banned&catid=89:bc-earth-news&Itemid=213

MINING

116. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR TURNING LAKES INTO MINE DUMP SITES

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/lakes-across-canada-face-being-turned-into-mine-dump-sites-1.733972

117 .THE HARPER GOVERNMENT, AND THE CONSERVATIVE DOMINATED SENATE, FOR OPPOSING A MINING BILL C300 WHICH WOULD REQUIRE CANADIAN MINING COMPANIES TO ABIDE BY STANDARDS WHEN THEY OPERATE OUTSIDE OF CANADA.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/andes-to-the-amazon/2014/may/14/canadian-mining-serious-environmental-harm-iachr

FACTS AND SCIENCE KNOWLEDGE

118.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR THE SYSTEMIC ATTACK ON FACTS AND REASON

http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/djclimenhaga/2013/04/former-tory-strategist-allan-gregg-rips-harper-cons-systematic-a|

119. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR BEING RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WAR ON SCIENCE

http://scienceblogs.com/confessions/2013/05/20/the-canadian-war-on-science-a-long-unexaggerated-devastating-chronological-indictment/

120.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR AMMENDING THE LIST OF INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS REQUIRING ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEWS

HAZARDOUS MATERIAL AND HARM4

121. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR IGNORING QUEBEC’S PROFESSORS REQUEST FOR AN INQUIRY INTO TRANSPORTATION OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

122.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FROM CAUSING IRREVERSIBLE MÉTIS SUIT CLAIMS B.C. DAMS CAUSE 'IRREVERSIBLE' HARM

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9712:metis-suit-claims-bc-dams-cause-irreversible-harm&catid=87:c-earth-news&Itemid=212’

123.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR ERODING CANADA’S PARKLAND BY CAUSING THE LOSS OF THE LAST SANCTUARIES

https://www.cbc.ca/newsblogs/technology/quirks-quarks-blog/2014/04/loss-of-the-last-sanctuaries.html

124 THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR ALLOWING THE OIL INDUSTRY TO CREATE-“LAKE-DISTRICT”FROM OPEN-PITMINES AND TOXIC TARS AND WASTE

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8495:oil-industry-looks-to-create-qlake-districtq-from-open-pit-mines-and-toxic-tar-sands-waste&catid=87:c-earth-news&Itemid=212

125. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR PRFOPOSING NUCLEAR WASTE BEING BURIED NEAR LAKE HURON

http://windsor.ctvnews.ca/burying-nuclear-waste-near-lake-huron-safest-option-panel-concludes-1.2363315

126. .THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR BAILING OUT GM: MAXIMIZING MANUFACTURING FOOTPRINT ECLIPSES ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7717&catid=87:c-earth-news&Itemid=212

127. .THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR BAILING OUT GM: MAXIMIZING MANUFACTURING FOOTPRINT ECLIPSES ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7717&catid=87:c-earth-news&Itemid=212

128. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR PULLING OUT OF THE CONVENTION TO PREVENT DESERTIFICATION

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9042:canada-pulls-out-of-un-convention-to-fight-droughts&catid=87:c-earth-news&Itemid=212

129. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR BEING AN OCEAN VILLAIN SPOILS WORLD 2007 OCEANS DAY

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6795&catid=87:c-earth-news&Itemid=212

130..THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR SCURRLING ITS OCEAN SCIENCE CAPABILITY

http://thechronicleherald.ca/opinion/1289147-canada-scuttles-its-ocean-science-capability

131.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR NOT ENSURING THAT ALBERTA’S NEW ENERGY REGULATOR INVESTIGATES THE LARGE PETROCHEMICAL SHEEN , DISCOVERED BY THE FIRST NATIONS, ON ATHABASCA RIVER

https://acfnchallenge.wordpress.com/2013/07/07/first-nation-discovers-large-petrochemical-sheen-on-athabasca-river-albertas-new-energy-regulator-missing-in-action/

PIPELINES

132. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR APPROVING THE ENBRIDGE PIPELINE. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT ACCEPTED THE FLAWED DECISION OF THE ENBRIDGE PANEL WHICH IGNORED NOT ONLY THE DEEP CONCERNS, SUBMITTED TO THE PANEL, BY THE CITIZENS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA BUT ALSO INTERNATIONAL NORMS WHICH WOULD BE VIOLATED

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9797:the-cabinet-decisions-mimiked-the-flawed-decision-by-the-joint-review-panel-if-one-reviews-the-initial-submissions-to-the-panel-in-august-2010-one-can-clearly-see-that-the-issues-raised-by-the-submissions-were-completely-ignored-&catid=87:c-earth-news&Itemid=212

133.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR NOT OBJECTING TO THE FACT THA T 75ALBERTA ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATORS TO BE PAID BY ENERGY INDUSTRY

http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/energy-resources/More+than+Alberta+environmental+regulators/9318036/story.html?__lsa=8ab2-3304

134 THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR SETTING UP A FLAWED NATIONAL ENERGY BOARD HEARING INTO THE EXPANSION OF KINDER MORGAN

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9957:constitutionality-of-kinder-morgan-trans-mountain-review-process-in-question-open-letter&catid=75:cjustice-news&Itemid=218

135. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR REFUSING TO ALLOW SUBMISSIONS, DEALING WITH CLIMATE CHANGE, TO BE PUT BEFORE THE NEB HEARING ON THE EXPANSION OF KINDER MORGAN. (Personal  Communication from WCWC)

136.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR IGNORING THE CONCERNS EXPRESSED, BY FIRST NATIONS ABOUT THE EXPANSION OF KINDER MORGAN

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9963:tsawout-neb-hearing-list-of-impactspotential-project-impacts-from-increased-marine-shipping-accidents-and-malfunctions&catid=75:cjustice-news&Itemid=218

137. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR DISREGARDING THE CONCERN ABOUT ENERGY EAST PIPELINE

http://environmentaldefense.ca/articles/statement-environmental-defence%E2%80%99s-adam-scott-transcanada%E2%80%99s-risky-energy-east-pipeline-proposal

SPILLS

138. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR NOT GIVING ANSWERS ON COLD LAKE SPILL

http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/emmapullman/2013/07/canadians-need-answers-on-cold-lake-oil-spill

139. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR NOT GIVING ANSWERS ON COLD LAKE SPILL

http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/emmapullman/2013/07/canadians-need-answers-on-cold-lake-oil-spill

140.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR INADEQUATE MONITORING CAUSED TWO OIL  

http://o.canada.com/2013/01/21/inadequate-monitoring-caused-two-oil-spills-federal-records-show/

141 THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR COVERING UP, UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTION, A SERIOUS SPILL IN THE TARSANDS WHICH OCCURRED PRIOR TO THE 2011 ELECTION

https://www.victoriacouncilofcanadians.ca/climate-justice/huge-oil-spill-in-alberta-cover-up-by-regulators

142.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR THE SPILLING OIL INTO ALBERTA’S COLD LAKE

http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/oil-has-been-spilling-into-albertas-cold-lake-for-almost-nine-months-and-no-one-knows-why

143. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR INADEQUATE MONITORING CAUSED TWO OIL SPILLS

http://o.canada.com/2013/01/21/inadequate-monitoring-caused-two-oil-spills-federal-records-show/

OlL SANDS/TAR SANDS

144. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR ALLOWING THE OIL INDUSTRY TO CREATE-“LAKE-DISTRICT”FROM OPEN-PIT MINES AND TOXIC TARS AND WASTE

http://www.desmogblog.com/2012/10/04/oil-industry-looks-create-lake-district-open-pit-mines-and-toxic-tar-sands-waste

145.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR IGNORING GOVERNMENT-FUNDED-STUDY ABOUT TOXIC HYDROCARBONSFROM OILSANDS POLLUTE LAKES-

http://www.timescolonist.com/news/weather/government-funded-study-concludes-toxic-hydrocarbons-from-oilsands-pollute-lakes-1.41572

146. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR PERMITTING THE POTENTIALLY DAMAGING OILSANDS EXPANSION

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/potentially-damaging-jackpine-oilsands-mine-expansion-ok-d-by-ottawa-1.2454849

147. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR ALLOWING THE JACKPINE MINE TO AFFECTED ANIMALS

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8572:photos-animals-affected-by-jackpine-mine-expansion&catid=87:c-earth-news&Itemid=212

148. THE HARPER GOVEERNMENT FOR CAUSING A LARGE PETROCHEMICAL SHEEN ON THE ATHABASCA RIVER

http://acfnchallenge.wordpress.com/2013/07/07/first-nation-discovers-large-petrochemical-sheen-on-athabasca-river-albertas-new-energy-regulator-missing-in-action/

149. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR WITHHOLDING DETAILS OF GOVERNMENT ADS FOR BIG OIL

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9344:stephen-harper-withholds-details-of-government-ads-for-big-oil-minister-wants-to-spend-up-to-165-million-on-advertising&catid=87:c-earth-news&Itemid=212

150. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR DOUBLING ADVERTISING SPENT ON TAR SANDS

Stephen Harper's administration has increased spend from $9m to $16.5m in the last year

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9162:canadian-government-doubles-advertising-spend-on-tar-sands&catid=87:c-earth-news&Itemid=212

151. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR SPENDINGFROM $9M TO $16.5M IN THE LAST YEAR ON ADVERTISINGFOR THE OIL SAND

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9162:canadian-government-doubles-advertising-spend-on-tar-sands&catid=87:c-earth-news&Itemid=212

152. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT "GREEN" TORIES PLAN QUINTUPLING TAR SANDS PRODUCTION

www.canadians.org

MARINE CREATURES

153 THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FROM REMOVING NORTH PACIFIC HUMPBACK WHALES FROM LIST OF ‘THREATENED’ SPECIES

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9714:ottawa-removing-north-pacific-humpback-whales-from-list-of-threatened-species&catid=87:c-earth-news&Itemid=212

http://news.wildlife.org/featured/controversy-over-canadas-decision-to-downlist-humpback-whales/

154. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR CONDUCTING A FLAWED WHALE- DEATH INVESTIGATION

http://www.timescolonist.com/whale-death-investigation-flawed-experts-say-1.886935

ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH

156. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR NOT PREVENTING THE

CANADIAN FOOD INSPECTION AGENCY APPROVAL OF ONE VARIETY OF GENETICALLY ENGINEERED ALFALFA:

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9208:canadian-food-inspection-agency-has-recently-approved-one-variety-of-genetically-engineered-alfalfa&catid=87:c-earth-news&Itemid=212

157. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR APPROVING THE PRODUCTION OF TRANSGENIC SALMON EGGS IN PEI

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9548:transgenic-salmon-is-fraught-with-uncertainties-and-irreversible-harmful-consequences&catid=86:i-earth-news&Itemid=210

158. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR UNDERMINING THE CANADIAN ECONOMY BY CAUSING CANADA TO BECOME A FOSSIL FUEL STATE

http://commonsensecanadian.ca/petro-state-economy-costs-canada-far-jobs-creates/

159. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR TOLERATING CLIMATE CHANGE DENIERS, FOR FUNDING THE “FRIENDS OF SCIENCE” AND FOR SACRIFICING HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN CANADA FOR THE PROMOTION OF THE TARSANDS PIPELINES AND TANKERS.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Friends_of_Science

160. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT'S NATURAL RESOURCE MINISTER

WHO SAID THAT HIS DEPARTMENT WANTED TO SPEND UP TO $16.5 MILLION ON ADVERTISING IN THE UPCOMING YEAR, "THIS IS A CRITICAL MOMENT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR NATURAL RESOURCES, AND THEREFORE WE HAVE ALLOCATED A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF MONEY FOR ADVERTISING,' OLIVER TOLD A SPECIAL COMMITTEE STUDYING SPENDING ESTIMATES IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS"

http://tarsandssolutions.org/in-the-media/stephen-harpers-government-withholds-details-of-16-million-pr-campaign-for

.161THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR SPENDING MILLIONS ON TARSANDS ADVOCACY

Stephen Harper's administration has increased spend from $9m to $16.5m in the last year

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9162:canadian-government-doubles-advertising-spend-on-tar-sands&catid=87:c-earth-news&Itemid=212

163.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR COVERING UP, UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTION, A SERIOUS SPILL IN THE TARSANDS WHICH OCCURRED PRIOR TO THE 2011 ELECTION

https://www.victoriacouncilofcanadians.ca/climate-justice/huge-oil-spill-in-alberta-cover-up-by-regulators

/

164. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR CALLING THOSE WHO SEEK TO PREVENT THE SENDING OF FOSSIL FUELS ACROSS BC AS "EXTREMISTS".

http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20120301/northern-gateway-pipeline-canada-harper-tar-oil-sands-forestethics-first-nations-charities-nonprofits-keystone-xl

165. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR MAKING, IN 2009 AT COP15, A LOW COMMITMENT FOR REDUCING GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS (17 PER CENT FROM 2005 LEVELS BY 2020; WHEREAS THE EU HAD AGREED TO 20% FROM THE 1990 LEVEL)

AND THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR NOT ESTABILISHING A CREDIBLE PLAN FOR REACHING EVEN THIS MODEST COP 15 COMMITMENT BY 2020

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/emissions-will-soar-after-2020-without-oil-sands-regulation-federal-report-says/article16250220/

FRACKING

166.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT, FOR FAILING TO INSTITUTE A CANADA-WIDE BAN ON FRACKING TO PREVENT THE NAFTA SUIT AGAINST QUEBEC`S BAN ON FRACKING

http://www.canadians.org/media/lone-pine-resources-files-outrageous-nafta-lawsuit-against-fracking-ban

167.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR IGNORING ENVIRONMENTAL WATCHDOG WORRY ABoUT RISE OF FRACKING

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8908:environmental-watchdog-worried-about-rise-of-fracking&catid=87:c-earth-news&Itemid=212

168.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR NOT ADDRESSING THE LEAKED

FRACKING FLUID CONTAMINATED GROUNDWATER NEAR GRANDE PRAIRIE

169.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR PASSING OMNIBUS BILL C-38

C-38

WHICH CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING;

(i) CANADIAN ENVIRONMENTALASSESSMENT ACT DITCHED.

(ii) (CANADIAN ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AGENCY SERIOUSLY WEAKENED.

(iii) CANADIAN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT UNDERCUT.

(iv) KYOTO PROTOCOL IMPLEMENTATION ACT KILLED.

(v) (FISHERIES ACT SERIOUSLY WEAKENED.

(vi) NAVIGABLEWATERS PROTECTION ACT HAMPERED.

(vii) ENERGY BOARD ACT NEUTERED.

(viii) SPECIES AT RISK ACT HAMSTRUNG.

(ix) PARKS CANADA AGENCY ACT TRIMMED, STAFF CUT.

(x) CANADIAN OIL AND GAS OPERATIONS ACT MADE MORE INDUSTRY FRIENDLY.

(xi) COASTING TRADE ACT MADE MORE OFFSHORE DRILLING FRIENDLY.

(xii) (NUCLEAR SAFETY CONTROL ACT UNDERMINED.

(xiii) CANADA SEEDS ACT INSPECTIONS PRIVATIZED.

(xiv) AGRICULTURE AFFECTED.

(xv) NATIONAL ROUND TABLE ON THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE ECONOMY KILLED.

(xvi) MORE ATTACKS ON ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS FUNDED. (vii) WATER PROGRAMS CUT.

(xvii) WASTEWATER SURVEY CUT. )

(xviii) MONITORING EFFLUENT CUT.

Outline above fromThe Tyee

http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2012/05/10/Bill-C38/

170. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT, FOR OBSTRUCTING THE BIODIVERSITY PROTOCOL, INDIGENOUS GROUPS ALLEGE CANADIAN OBSTRUCTIONISM ON THE BIODIVERSITY PROTOCOL

http://www.ip-watch.org/2010/10/21/indigenous-groups-allege-canadian-obstructionism-to-biodiversity-abs-protocol/

171. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR INCREASING PRODUCTION OF GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOOD AND CROPS

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9807:republication-of-professor-seralinis-study-time-to-be-responsible&catid=86:i-earth-news&Itemid=210

GMOS

178. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR FAILING TO INVOKE THE INTERNATIONAL VERSION OF THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE AND INSTITUTE A BAN ON GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOOD AND CROPS

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9773:presentation-at-the-victoria-2014-march-against-monsanto&catid=80:i-pej-events&Itemid=228

179. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR FAILING TO INVOKE THE INTERNATIONAL VERSION OF THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE TO PREVENT THE IMPACT OF GE ON THE MONARCH BUTTERFLIES.

http://www.startribune.com/local/143017765.html

.

180. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR PERMITTING, A STRAIN OF MONSANTO ALFALFA GE SEED TO BE APPROVED AND FOR COMPROMISING FOOD SECURITY

E.

CONTRIBUTING UNDERMINING OF HEALTH CARE

181. HARPER FOR CONSIDERING DIFFERENT DELIVERY SYSTEMS FOR HEALTH CARE WHICH COULD RESULT IN INCREASE PRIVATIZATION AND END TO MEDICARE

IN THE 2011 LEADERS DEBATE HARPER SAID; “GOVERNMENTS ACROSS THIS COUNTRY HAVE EXPERIMENTED WITH ALTERNATIVE SERVICE DELIVERY….WE’RE NOT GOING TO WAVE THE FINGER AT PROVINCES BECAUSE THEY EXPERIMENT WITH DIFFERENT

DELIVERY.”

http://www.nationalnewswatch.com/2014/03/12/medicare-is-on-the-road-to-oblivion/#.U7Bsk5RdVuA

182.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR ABDICATING RESPONSIBILITY OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO SUPPORT THE CANADA HEALTH CARE ACT.

http://healthcoalition.ca/harper-plan-would-kill-medicare/

183.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR KILLING MEDICARE

www.ipolitics.ca/.../how-harper-killed-medicare-and-got-away-with-it/

184.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR CLOSING HEALTH COUNCIL OF CANADA

www.thestar.com/.../by_closing_the_national_health_council_stephen_h...

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185.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR CLOSING HEALTH COUNCIL OF CANADA

Apr 17, 2013 - Stephen Harper's Conservative government is abandoning the essential federal role in Canadian health care.

186.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR DISMANTLING,IN 2014 BUDGET,  NATIONAL HEALTH CARE

healthcoalition.ca/budget-2014-triggers-harpers-plan-to-dismantle-nation...

NEGLIGENCE

187.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR HAVING APPROVED HAVING ONLY ONE ENGINEER ON TRAINS; THIS COULD HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE ILL-FATED TRAIN DISASTER IN LAC MEGANTIC

F.

VIOLATING HUMAN RIGHTS

WE DENOUNCE HARPER AND THE HARPER GOVERNMENT

188. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR IGNORING THE PLEAS OF THE LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES FOR CANCELING THE DEBT, AND THE PLEAS OF DEVELOPING NATIONS FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE AND FOR COMPENSATION FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF THEIR ATMOSPHERIC SPACE (STATEMENT BY CANADA AT THE NEW YORK,10-14 JANUARY 2011 CONFERENCE ON THE LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES , AT THE UN, IN NEW YORK.

189.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR VIOLATING THE CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE IN AFGHANISTAN THROUGH TRANSFERRING THE AFHAN DETAINEES

EVEN THOUGH A CANADIAN AMBASSADOR ADVISED THE GOVERNMENT ABOUT THE FACT THAT THE PRISONERS TRANSFERRED BY CANADA TO AN AFGHAN PRISON WERE BEING TORTURED, THE HARPER MINORITY GOVERNMENT IGNORED THE WARNING. THE HARPER MINORITY GOVERNMENT DENIED THAT THEY HAD BEEN INFORMED AND DISCREDITED HIM, AND NOW IN JUNE, THE DOCUMENTS INDICATE THAT HARPER HAD BEEN INFORMED

http://mwcnews.net/focus/politics/40436-cia-torture-revelations.html

190.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR EXTENDING THE ANTI-TERRORIST ACT AND FOR THE VIOLATION OF THE INTERNATIONALCOVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/conservatives-pass-anti-terror-bill-decried-by-civil-rights-advocates/article11535988/

191. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR THE PUTTING UNDER SUREILLANCE CITIZENS ENGAGED IN LAWFUL ADVOCACY; THIS PRACTICE VIOLATES SECTION 1 OF THE INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS- THAT AFFIRMS THAT .THERE MUST BE NO DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF POLITICAL OR OTHER OPINION

192.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR PERMITTING EXCESSIVE VIOLENCE AGAINST DEMONSTRATORS. AT THE G8 – 20

http://www.cpcml.ca/Tmld2010/D40154.htm

LABOUR

193.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT’ FOR VIOLATING LABOUR RIGHTS, ESPECIALLY FOR CHALLENGING THE RIGHT TO STRIKE

http://www.cupw.ca/index.cfm/ci_id/13985/la_id/1

194.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR CHANGING THE EMPLOYMENT ELIGIBILITY RULES. THESE CHANGES WILL INCREASE THE PRECARIOUSNESS OF JOBS AND JEOPARDIZE THE BARGAINING POWER OF WORKERS IN CANADA.

195. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR CURTAILING THROUGH OMNIBUS BILL C4 RIGHT TO STRIKE BY CIVIL SERVANTS

196. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR FAILING TO RATIFY THE CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF MIGRANT WORKERS AND THEIR FAMILIES AND FOR CONTRIBUTING TO THE ABUSES AND EXPLOITATION OCCURRING IN THE TEMPORARY FOREIGN WORKER PROGRAM,

http://www.amnesty.org/fr/library/asset/AMR20/008/2012/en/5a3659f9-9cfe-4597-abfa-4047d5653c69/amr200082012en.pdf

197. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR FAILING TO FOLLOW THROUGH WITH THE COMMITMENT TO ENSURE THAT EMPLOYERS, WITH CRIMINAL RECORD, COULD NOT BE INVOLVED WITH THE TEMPORARY FOREIGN WORK PROGRAMINDIGENOUS RIGHTS

198..THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR DEFEATING BILL ON DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10184:afn-chief-says-defeat-of-bill-on-the-declaration-on-the-rights-of-indigenous-peoples-underrmines-gov-tcommitments-to-first-nations-and-canadians-&catid=75:cjustice-news&Itemid=218

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199 THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR ALLOWIN G ABORIGINAL AFFAIRS SPENDING SHORTFALL AMOUNTS TO $1B,

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/aboriginal-affairs-spending-shortfall-amounts-to-1b-internal-document-says-1.3100937

200. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR THE DENYING OF RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES. ARTICLE 19 OF THE UN DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES WHICH REQUIRES FAIR PRIOR INFORMED CONSENT; HARPER HAS STATED CONSENT DOES NOT REALLY MEAN CONSENT IT MEANS CONSULTATION. HE ALSO HAS DECLARED THAT THE UNDRIP IS ONLY ASPIRATIONAL.[HE RECENT DECISION OF THE SUPREME COURT WILL NOT PERMIT THIS:

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9813:tsilhqotin-first-nation-granted-bc-title-claim-in-supreme-court-ruling&catid=75:cjustice-news&Itemid=218

http://intercontinentalcry.org/harper-launches-major-first-nations-termination-plan-as-negotiating-tables-legitimize-canadas-colonialism/

THE CANADIAN HUMAN RIGHTS TRIBUNAL SAYS THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT KNEW ABOUT 50,000 DOCUMENTS "PREJUDICIAL TO ITS CASE AND HIGHLY RELEVANT" IN 2012, BUT DIDN'T DISCLOSE THEM UNTIL THEY WERE REVEALED THIS YEAR IN A REQUEST UNDER FEDERAL ACCESS TO INFORMATION LAWS. (CBC)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ottawa-rebuked-for-holding-back-first-nations-documents-1.1362202

203.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT CONTINUES TO RESIST CALLS FOR MISSING ABORIGINAL WOMEN INQUIRY

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/harper-continues-to-resist-calls-for-missing-aboriginal-women-inquiry/article22133991/ 

204 MARK THE END OF DUTY TO CONSULT.

https://ricochet.media/en/464/federal-budget-could-mark-end-of-duty-to-consult-with-first-nations

RELIGION AND POLITICS

205. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR MOVING CANADA AWAY FROM A COUNTRY OF MULTIFAITH, AND NO FAITH TOWARDS A FORM OF CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALISM WITH LINKS TO ISRAEL

http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2012/03/26/Harper-Evangelical-Mission/

CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS

206. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT'S BILL C10‘ TOUGH ON CRIME BILL WHICH HAS CAUSED VIRTUALLY ALL OF THE CRIME LEGISLATION TO BE DIRECTED TOWARDS INCREASING PUNISHMENT BY WAY OF MORE PRISON TERMS FOR MORE PEOPLE AND FOR LONGER. VIRTUALLY NOTHING IN ANY OF THE LEGISLATION DOES ANYTHING TO PREVENT CRIME

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/what-worries-critics-about-omnibus-crime-bill-1.1244907

207. THE HARPER GOVERNMENTS FOR FAILING TO CONDEMN ISRAEL FOR THE TREATMENT OF THE PALESTINIANS AND FOR THEATENING THE BDS MOVEMENT 

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/05/11/harper-government-threatens-bds-supporters-hate-crime-charges

208. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR PULLING FUNDING FROM GROUPS WHICH WERE CRITICAL OF ISRAEL

http://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/ngos-and-empire

FAMILY PLANNING

209. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR REFUSING TO FUND ANYTHING TO DO WITH FAMILY PLANNING AND ABORTION

http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/gerry-caplan/2014/06/harpers-plan-maternal-health-not-nearly-good-enough

210.THE HARPER GOVERNMENTFOR BENDING THE RULES PARLIAMENT HILL

FOR ANTI ABORTION PROTEST

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/anti-abortion-protest-bent-rules-on-parliament-hill-1.2870209

REFUGEE RIGHTS

211. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR VIOLATING SECTION 1 OF THE 1951 REFUGEE ACT BY MAKING A DISTINCTION BETWEEN WHAT IT DEEMS TO BE ‘SAFE” AND “UNSAFE” COUNTRIES; “THERE SHOULD BE NO DISCRIMINATION ON GROUNDS OF COUNTRY OF ORIGIN ARTICLE1, REFUGEE ACT)

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9523:a-potential-consequence-of-harper-governments-distinction-between-refugees-from-safe-and-unsafe-states&catid=75:cjustice-news&Itemid=218

212 PRIME MINISTER’S OFFICE ORDERED HALT TO REFUGEE PROCESSING

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/prime-ministers-office-ordered-halt-to-refugee-processing/article26713562/

213. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT PRIORITIZING RELIGIOUS MINORITIES IN SYRIA REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT; “THERE SHOULD BE NO DISCRIMINATION ON GROUNDS OF COUNTRY OF RELIGION” ARTICLE 1, REFUGEE ACT)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-considers-prioritizing-religious-minorities-in-syria-refugee-resettlement-1.2870916

214.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR IMPRISONING OF REFUGEES ARRIVING BY SHIP AND FOR CUTTING OFF HEALTH CARE FUNDING FOR REFUGEES, COMING FROM C OUNTRIES, WHICH THE HARPER GOVERNMENT DEEMS TO BE SAFE TO CANADA.

http://healthcoalition.ca/main/issues/conservative-attack-on-refugee-health-care/

215.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR CUTTING REFUGEE HEALTH CARE

http://www.doctorsforrefugeecare.ca/day-of-action-june-15-2015.html

SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL RIGHTS

2i6 THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR FAILINGTO FOR FAILING TO FULFILL MILLENNIAL GOALS

217. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR CAUSING, THE GAP BETWEEN THE RICH AND THE POOR TO INCREASE. IN CANADA

THE MEDIAN INCOME OF THE TOP 1%IS 10 TIMES HIGHER THAN THE REMAINING 99% OF TAX FILERS (STATISTICS CANADA).

www.canadiansocialresearch.net/inequality.htm

218.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR INTRODUCING INCOME SPLITING WHICH WILL BENEFIT THE WEALTHY

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10038:families-earning-more-than-233000-will-gain-most-from-conservatives-income-splitting-plan-says-new-report&catid=75:cjustice-news&Itemid=218

229 UPDATE; Budget 

220. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT,FOR CAUSING CANADA TO FALL

FURTHER BEHIND ON MDG#1 IN RELATION TO ALL SECTORS OF POPULATION LIVING IN POVERTY WELL OVER THE European Union and OECD (ORGANIZATION FOR ECONOMIC COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT) AVERAGES, PARTICULARLY IN RELATION TO ABORIGINAL PERSONS (36% POVERTY RATE) SINGLE MOTHERS (21.5%POVERTY RATE), AND PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES (26.4%).

www.makepovertyhistory.ca

221.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR CANADA BEING RANKED AS 20TH OUT OF 31 OECD COUNTRIES FOR MOVING WOMEN OUT OF POVERTYIN MEASURING POVERTY

http://www.canadianwomen.org/sites/canadianwomen.org/files/PDF-FactSheet-EndPoverty-Jan2013.pdf

222. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR CAUSING CANADA TO BE 12 OUT OF 30 IN THE ASSESSMENT, BY UNICEF, IN CHILD WELL BEING IN RICH COUNTRIES

http://www.unicef.org/media/files/ChildPovertyReport.pdf

223.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR`THE FISCAL CRISIS BEING CAUSED BY DEREGULATION OF FINANCIAL MARKETS WHICH HAS ACCELERATED THIS INEQUALITY.

https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/monitor/global-economic-crisis-and-its-canadian-dimension

224. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR CAUSING A DETERIORATION IN CANADA OF FOOD SECURITY, AND FOR DISPENSIN WITH THE RQPPATEUR’S REPORT ON FOOD SECURITY

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/un-official-sparks-debate-over-canadian-food-security-1.1130281

G.

ENTRENCHING CORPORATISM 

225.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR NOT ADDRESSING THE FACT THAT

CANADA NOW DOMINATES WORLD BANK CORRUPTION LIST, THANKS TO SNC-LAVALIN

226. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR BAILING OUT THE BANKS AND LOWERING CORPORATE TAXES YET CUTTING BACK ON FEDERAL PROGRAMS AND SERVICES.

227. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR THE INCREASING SUPPORT FOR PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS

http://www.fin.gc.ca/n12/12-108-eng.asp

228. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR INCREASING GLOBALIZATION, DEREGULATION AND PRIVATIZATION THROUGH ITS SUPPORT FOR TRADE AGREEMENTS, SUCH AS THE WTO/FTAA/NAFTA, SPP, CETA, FIPA TTIPS; AS WELL AS BYLATERAL AGREEMENTS. ALL THESE TRADE AGREEMENTS SHOULD BE DECLARED NULL AND VOID FOR VIOLATING INTERNTIONAL PEREMPTORY NORMS

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9737:-ceta-should-be-declared-null-and-void-for-violating-international-norms-pdf-print-e-mail-justice-news-posted-by-joan-russow-friday-18-october-2013-0706-ceta-should-be-declared-null-and-void-for-violating-international-norms-joan-russow-global-complianc&catid=74:ijustice-news&Itemid=216

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9792:the-ttip-will-enshrine-corporate-rights-erode-democracy-and-defy-international-peremptory-norms&catid=74:ijustice-news&Itemid=216

229. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR UNDERMINING OF POST SECONDARY EDUCATION

CANADA HAS REDUCED FUNDS FOR UNIVERSITIES, CAUSING UNIVERSITIES AND RESEARCHERS TO GROVEL FOR CORPORATE FUNDING, SUCH AS FROM MINING CORPORATIONS SUCH GOLDCORP. WITH TERRIBLE HUMAN RIGHTS RECORDS, AND FROM DEFENCE FUNDING.

https://www.cbc.ca/fifth/blog/federal-programs-and-research-facilities-that-have-been-shut-down-or-had-th

H.

DEFYING iNTERNATIONAL LAW

WE DENOUNCE HARPER AND THE HARPER GOVERNMENT

231.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR WITHDRAWING FROM THE KYOTO PROTOCOL

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canada-formally-abandons-kyoto-protocol-on-climate-change/article4180809/

232 tHE |HARPER GOVERNMENT COMING UP WITH A WEAK COMMITMENT FOR COP 21 IN PARIS

233.THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR WITHDRAWING FROM cONVENTION TO COMBAT DESERTIFICATION

234. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR  FAILING TO ADOPT THE DECLARATION FOR A NUCLEAR ARMS FREE MIDDLE EASTS

235. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR MISCONSTRUING ARTICLE 51- SELF DEFENCE- OF THE UNITED NATIONS TO JUSTIFY THE INVASION OF SYRIA

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10119:harper-government-and-isil-need-to-redefine-what-constitutes-security-threats-and-terrorism-&catid=75:cjustice-news&Itemid=218

236. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR FAILING TO RATIFY THE ARMS TRADE TREATY

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/harper-refuses-to-sign-landmark-arms-trade-treaty/article14539869/

238 A Content Analysis of the Dutch Court Decision: could this be a Precedent to be used in a case before the Supreme Court of Canada?

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10281:a-content-analysis-of-the-dutch-court-decision-could-this-be-a-precedent-to-be-used-in-a-case-before-the-supreme-court-of-canada&catid=75:cjustice-news&Itemid=218

239 Draft Content Analysis of the Dutch Decision applied to Canada

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10287:draft-content-analysis-of-the-dutch-decision-applied-to-canada&catid=75:cjustice-news&Itemid=218

240. THE HARPER GOVERNMENT FOR HELPING ISRAEL BLOCK A PLAN AT THE UN  TO RID WORLD OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS,

http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/canada-helps-block-un-plan-to-rid-world-of-nuclear-weapons-citing-israel-1.2390195

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/05/25/canada-helps-block-un-pla_n_7437480.html

241 tHE HARPER GOVERNMENT INTERVENING  AGAINST iSIS

THE HARPER GOVERNMENT AND ISIL: THE NEED TO REDEFINE WHAT CONSTITUTES SECURITY, THREATS AND TERRORISM

https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10119:harper-government-and-isil-need-to-redefine-what-constitutes-security-threats-and-terrorism-&catid=75:cjustice-news&Itemid=218

SEE OTHER LIST 

242 Harper, Serial Abuser of Power: The Evidence Compiled

http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2015/08/10/Harper-Abuses-of-Power-Final/

comment

Joan Russow 

Thank you for the list. After the debate,the media comments about Harper seem to be functioning in a vacuum. Since 2006, I have been compiling media comments on Harper`s transgressions.

ELECTION 2015:A Long List of the transgressions of the Harper government

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