Thirty-eight reasons not to vote for Stephen Harper… one for every day of the campaign. Feel free to add your own:
1. The Accountability Act that isn’t
2. Negative advertising (puffin poopers unite)
3. Afghanistan… Do you trust the man who unfixed his own fixed-date election legislation to bring the troops home in 2011?
4. Arrogance
5. Arts funding cuts
6. Atlantic Accord
7. Joel Bernard, the parachuted Nova Scotia Conservative candidate from New Brunswick who lives and works in Ottawa for an Alberta cabinet minister
8. Bill C-10, that one that allows the government to withdraw tax credits for Canadian films it deems too violent or pornographic
9. George Bush…
10. Chuck Cadman and the mysterious life insurance policy
11. Privatizing the CBC
12. In-and-out campaign financing
13. China
14. Climate change… witness the 83 square miles of ice—three times as large as Manhattan—that broke away from Ellesmere Island this summer because of global warming Harper’s government continues to pretend doesn’t exist
15. Stockwell Day
16. Trying to keep Elizabeth May out of the leaders debates
17. Cutting taxes on diesel fuel to encourage fossil fuel consumption
18. It’s the economy, stupid
19. Subsidies for ethanol producers
20. Non-fixed fixed Election dates designed to fix elections
21. Jim Flaherty
22. Lack of gun control
23. Stephen Harper
24. Hypocrisy
25. Immigration
26. Safe Injection Sites
27. Omar Khadr
28. Rakesh Khosla, Conservative anti-choice candidate, Halifax West
29. Kyoto
30. Rosamond Luke
31. Peter MacKay
32. Brian Mulroney, Karlheinz Schreiber et al
33. The secret settlement with Alan Riddell, a former Conservative candidates who sued the Tories for reneging on a deal to get him to step aside for a more prominent candidate in the 2006 election
34. Secrecy
35. Rosemary Segora
36. The phony just-a-regular guy sweater-vest ad
37. Refusing asylum to American war resisters
38. Youth Criminal Justice Act
