Stephen Harper’s Coup: Subverting Democracy
We are in the worst crisis since 1929 and we have no government. How can this be good?
Prime Minister Stephen Harper suspended Canada’s parliament to avoid a challenge from opposition parties that were planning to oust him from power.
The Coalition also opposed his initial “proposed elimination of subsidies for political parties, a three-year ban on the right of civil servants to strike, and limits on the ability of women to sue for pay equity.” Governor General Michaelle Jean helped Harper to hang on by using her constitutional authority to close the legislature for seven weeks. (until Jan 27, 2009) Now the country is in a furor.
Harper can now harpoon Canada, with no discussion or debates
Harper has roots as a far right conservative ideologue who served as president of the National Citizens Coalition (NCC), a conservative think-tank and advocacy group. The organization opposes national healthcare but supports privatization and tax cuts. It has 40,000 members but the names are kept confidential. It’s motto is “more freedom with less government.”
The Prime Minister has been a staunch supporter of George Bush and the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Many of his critics accuse him of being a neoconservative allied to the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the Bilderburger Group. He is alleged to be a proponent of plans for a North American Union (NAU), which is an elitist scheme to end U.S. sovereignty by merging the three countries — Canada, the U.S., and Mexico — into one neo-fascist inspired “superstate”. The plan coincides with Harper’s unwavering support for “free trade” (that allows Canada to be taken over by U.S. corporations).
Harper’s also appears to be operating as an operative for organizations with clandestine right wing agenda: Do you remember the media report about a video of him giving a speech that was also given by Australian PM John Howard prior to the war in Iraq. The speeches are identical — word for word — indicating that they must have been written by a third party connected with a common right wing agenda.
The video dispels any illusion that Karzai, Abbas, and Siniora are the only sock-puppets working for Washington. LINK
“Harper has already laid out an agenda that would fundamentally change this country — in ways most Canadians would oppose. While this agenda is not “secret,” my guess is few Canadians know about it… Sometime in the dark of night last 20 June 2008, the Harper government posted a plan on the Department of National Defence’s website — called Canada First Defence Strategy — to spend an eye-popping $490 billion over the next 20 years on the military.
It’s hard to imagine an agenda with more profound consequences for Canadians, beginning with a dramatic reordering of national priorities. Public health care? Child poverty? Fighting global warming?
While the election campaign has focused on economic issues, the military and its combat role in Afghanistan have actually been the centrepieces of the Harper administration. Harper has tried to reshape the way Canadians think about Canada, weaning us off our fondness for peacekeeping (and medicare, for that matter), and getting us excited about being a war-making nation, able to swagger on the world stage in the footsteps of the Americans.” (Reference: Linda McQuaig, “Stephen Harper: Bulking up Pentagon North”, the Toronto Star).
by Guy Lapointe