On this, I defer to Margaret Atwood, who argues persuasively for Anything but a Harper majority.
Mr. Harper got elected by promising to consult, to be transparent, to be accountable, but he’s delivered the extreme opposite. He doesn’t consult with anybody but himself in the mirror; he has the most secretive government Canada has ever known; [...]
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Harper has broken his core election promises
Harper fails to inspire
A good political leader is able to inspire people to get behind their platform for change. But before this can happen, you actually have to have a platform for people to support.
Contrary to the Ipsos-Reid survey showing that 31% of respondents believe Harper won the debate (proving only that, proportionately, more Conservative supporters like to [...]
Stephen Harper cracks down on free speech and opposition
Key to the Conservatives’ victory in the 2006 election was their promise to right the Liberals’ wrongs that emerged during the Gomery Commission into the sponsorship scandal. The Conservatives, so they claimed, would usher in an era of more accountable, democratic and transparent government.
The result, unfortunately, has been the emergence of a set of tactics [...]
A case study in evidence-blind decision making
A number of policy decisions undertaken by Stephen Harper’s federal conservatives demonstrate a wilful disregard for the use of evidence and research to inform policy, including the Conservatives’ approach to child care funding and their literacy funding cuts.
But most unforgivable among their systematic evidence-blindness is the approach they’ve taken to addressing climate change, another issue [...]
Stephen Harper has a vision?
If you’re like me, you haven’t heard the words “Stephen Harper” and “vision” in the same sentence too often, except when the topic is Canada’s north.
Harper is no small-time politician: in addition to having been president of the National Citizens Coalition, a well-funded right-wing lobbying organization, in 2003 Harper was a co-founder of the federal [...]
Welcome to ReallyNotALeader.ca
This website was created in response to the Conservative’s attack-site, notaleader.ca, which received a lot of attention over its childish and tasteless imaging of a puffin pooping of the shoulder of Liberal leader Stéphane Dion.
ReallyNotALeader aims to make plain the many ways in which Stephen Harper fails to live up to his own rhetoric: the [...]
