1) The current outbreak of listeriosis is a direct consequence of Harper's deregulation of food inspection
Actually, the plant was regularly inspected. What caused the outbreak was a tough bacteria that spread rapidly in a very short time, and a slow response time on the part of the company.
2) Canada's presence in Afghanistan though started under the Liberals as a peacekeeping mission quickly morphed into full-on combat, George W. Bush-style, under Harper:
This never was a peace-keeping mission.
3) Harper laughs in the face of the Kyoto protocol. Chretien's number two achievement (the number one being, staying out of Iraq). He dismisses it as a "socialist-scheme". He'll be crying out for that so-called "socialist-scheme" when the suburbs become the slums of the future.
Chretien never did anything to meet Kyoto goals, either. In the end, most countries won't meet their Kyoto commitments.
4)With the 18 billion Harper has spent in Afghanistan we could have had national childcare, pharmacare or some kind of national infrastructure for public transportation in large & small cities, hell even high speed trains would have been nice. Instead we have an illegal war with lots of death & destruction and harm to civilians, women & children and no offer of real hope for the Afghan population, and Canadians are paying for it.
What exists in reality is a war in Afghanistan. Anyone can fantasize about what could have been done with eighteen billion dollars. Had someone spent such money on a high speed Windsor- Quebec City rail line, there would have been a chorus complaining about what that money could have paid for.
Also, you seem quite unconcerned about what the Taliban was doing to the people of Afghanistan. Is it that their actions had your approval, or that you really don't care about the people of Afghanistan?
The military costs money. We do a poor job patrolling out Arctic regions and equipment has to be updated. That all costs money.
5) Harper in gov't means bad news for women, he crippled the budget of the Status of Women Canada:
Equality is enshrined in the constitution. Today, there are extensive bodies, tribunals, initiatives and laws that protect women. Many institutions make great efforts to encourage and promote women in the workforce. While there are still issues, great strides have been made.
6) What a complete and total fuckwad (AS IF that wasn't already cemented before) for condemning artists and their "rich galas", when in fact the majority of artists are poor, they are some of the most over-educated yet poor members of Canada. Even the ones who get the $50,000 prize it's a one time thing! They don't even qualify for EI! There's funding for big fancy opera houses and big renos at the ROM & the AGO but they won't hire much permanent staff cause they might give a person with an arts related degree a steady job!! It's an established fact that the presence of artists signals gentrification, to the point that eventually they are pushed out of the area they helped gentrify, (Yorkville, and Queen West are examples) how DARE he claim that artists are rich.
