Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Election Issues 101

or, 101 things to think about if Steve gets his election :

Afghanistan mission/Operation Enduring Freedom, Cadman tapes, Bernier affair, in and out scheme, attacks on wheat board, Naftagate, dirty tricks manual, ignoring Kyoto Accord, gutting and intimidation of public service, cancelling Court Challenges Act, income trusts, Omar Khadr, Toronto 18/Paintball 11, nuclear watchdog Linda Keen fired, listeriosis, C-484, International AIDs conference snub, arts and culture funding cuts, Status of Women gutted, war resistors deported, war branding for Olympics, softwood lumber deal, attacks on Insite, cuts to BSE/mad cow testing, NorthComm pact, deregulating Canada Post, two-tier healthcare push, Abdelrazik, projected four-fold increase in tar sands production, ethanol grants to agribiz, Oily the Splot ads, extraordinary rendition, torture of Canadian-held prisoners in Afghanistan, 16 lakes to be reclassified as toxic dump sites, Lougheed Martin census, obstructing HoC committees, water and housing and schooling conditions on FN reserves, mail-outs from defeated Con candidates, rewriting/deleting research on government websites, Colombia free trade deal, Canada First - not, copycat crime bill, militarization of arctic, Bill C-537, Bill C-10, NACC, Server in the Sky, Canada-Israel homeland security pact, TOPOFF 5, government scientists muzzled/fired, support for Guantanamo, RCMP whitewash, TILMA, Chalk River, no-fly list, biometric passports, CIA access to banking records, Benamar Benatta, North American Forum, red fridays, Bali conference, Commonwealth climate change talks, undermining UN nuclear disarmament, Question Period a shambles, Independent Panel on Canada's Mission in Afghanistan, war on drugs, lowering pesticide standards, Montebello, secret deep integration meeting in Banff, "staying the course" in Haiti, DND funding in universities, 600 Canadian companies gone to foreign ownership, support for Wolfowitz at World Bank, Smart Borders, dissing UN rep Louise Arbor, P-3 security forces in Afghanistan, attacks on Dion for having a French mother, faking up law and order hysteria, nukes in the tarsands, Accountability Act, UN vote against pregnant Palestinian women, "Support the troops" as party backdrop, Adult Learning and Literacy Program - eliminated, Health Canada- $28M reduction, Medical Marijuana Research Program- eliminated, Law Commission of Canada - eliminated, Museum Assistance Program - funding cut, One Tonne Challenge - 40% budget cut, Stats Can- budget reduced, Status of Women policy research and lobbying - banned, CMHC - funding reduction, Canadian Heritage Centre - eliminated, Canadian Volunteerism Initiative - eliminated, Canadian Labour Business Centre - eliminated, Canadian Policy Research Network - eliminated, Community Access Program - eliminated, privatization of airline safety, sale of federal buildings, isotope "crisis", GHG "intensity targets", Clean Air Act, reversals on aid to Africa, blocking access to public documents, bullying of Elections Canada, lawsuit against Libs as intimidation, revolving door between Con polis and industry front groups, prominence of Mike Harris MPs in Harper cabinet, the muzzling of Con MPs and candidates, and of course, enthusiastic and unstinting support for deeper integration with the US.

Ok, I've gone way over 101 here. Did I miss many?

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