Cambo
April 13, 2011 / 16:51

Pfft. Whatever. Someone puts up a flash site of rotating "maybe truths but who gives a crap" yet doesn't have the balls to put their name on it.

News flash Mike. No one cares. The economy is spinning, socialists don't win elections (even if they do, they bankrupt economies) and Ignatieff will likely be bounced after this one.

Cambo
April 13, 2011 / 16:53

...and I find it quite disturbing that they say there ARE other choices...and then list the Bloc and green party.

One is a traitor, the other can't get elected anywhere.

Freddie P.
April 13, 2011 / 16:56

Here's some more shit Harper did.. he pumped his support up to 45 percent across the country. Majority country.
http://www.torontosun.com/news/decision2011/2011/04/12/17970681.html
Green Party at 10, NDP at 20, Liberal at 30 and when you grow up, Conservative.

Cambo
April 13, 2011 / 16:57

So what. The same thing can be done for the Liberals, NDP and any other Joe. Means nothing.

Quinny.
April 13, 2011 / 17:25

Feddie P. - How succinct of you ! End of story.
Cambo- Well said my friend !

MrFascination
April 13, 2011 / 17:47

Harper is an idiot... Does nothing... Has a party of morons behind him...

Here is a guy who along with his finance minister kept saying Canada was not going into a recession back in 2009.

scott
April 13, 2011 / 17:49

And the Liberals cut health transfer payments in the 90's and Iggy promises to give it back! How Red of him! Where is is the money going to come from? Oh wait tax hikes!

John MacKenzie
April 13, 2011 / 17:56

The Shit Harper Did site is already showing as suspended.

John MacKenzie
April 13, 2011 / 18:01

Of course, a shitload of traffic coming from Facebook could be the problem.

Cam
April 13, 2011 / 18:11

Why is Cambo so angry?

nicole
April 13, 2011 / 19:00

No Conservative since John A MacD. has ever moved the Canadian economy from a deficit into a surplus. Liberal governments do it all the time...after the Conservatives blow the surplus and move us into deficit, kinda like what Harper just did. Hmmm, who's more fiscally responsible I wonder?

Shaun
April 13, 2011 / 19:00

How about shit liberals have done or shit box has done, etc... Has everyone forgot about the sponsorship scandal?! Now the lobs want to build a rink on Quebec city - Deja vu? What about cap and trade which lib, greens and possibly NDP support that wood make the middle class fuel poor and has been shown to be disastrous? The bloc do I need to say anything?

Cristina
April 13, 2011 / 19:21

Listen, every single candidate has something that they have done wrong or that has not pleased Canadians but if Harper gets a majority government, all you Conservative supporters are going to be eating your words. The only reason he is as tame with the shenanigans right now is because he does not have the power of numbers. So sure, vote for Harper if you want Canada to become just like the U.S. In my opinion, anyone found in contempt of Parliament is not fit to run a country. On that note, it now turns to which is the lesser of 3 evils.

Gump
April 13, 2011 / 19:36

I just wish that votes would educate themselves on what a democracy is, and study why Harper is a threat to it.
Contempt of Parliament anyone?

Laura
April 13, 2011 / 19:45

Can't vote conervative - Bev Oda is a liar "not", Maxime Bernier is irresponsible not for leaving them at the hell's angles girlfriends house but for taking them there in the first place, John Baird cost ottawa the light rail, jaffer and guergis scandal, kenny raising 370K on tax dollars time, Carson in the PMO - SCANDAL SCANDAL SCANDAL... not supporting abortions in foreign countries. next thing it will be womens right to vote.

NDP will bankrupt the country

Liberal doesn't have its act together. Iggy is nice but pretty much launched the NDP platform... very reactive rather than proactive - the learning passport is a prime example...

Green gets my vote - fiscally responsible like the coservatives yet socially progressive like the liberals and socially responsible like the NDP. Its a fresh new party with no back room deals waiting to be made. The candidates are genuine and scandal free... Vote GREEN - Read Vision Green! You'll be suprised.

laura
April 13, 2011 / 19:46

if you are found in contempt - you should be fired. the end.

Andy C
April 13, 2011 / 20:47

@ Cambo, you're right about socialists, I'd much rather have harper bankrupt the country with tax cut's for corporations (that haven't really worked in canada, or shown any appreciable results in the last 10 years) paid for by the further erosion of our social safety nets and on the backs of our public sector.......Neo-Cons like running deficits, it gives them "justification" to shrink the size of Government

Negrotski
April 13, 2011 / 21:28

ANYTHING but HARPER -- this guy is a morally bankrupt control freak -- f@#k him -- he doesn't deserve this job -- and he only helps out Ontario and Alberta -- f@#k him -- I think Green is now the way to go...

DITCH HARPER

Negrotski
April 13, 2011 / 21:33

HARPER shadows the Tea Bagger politics down south -- HE is un-Canadian -- just like Tea Baggers to Americans, he assumes we are stupid -- f@#k Harper -- best buddies with the Fox Republican News Gang -- f@#k Harper...

DITCH HARPER

Irvine
April 13, 2011 / 21:40

How does Harper help Alberta? We send u bums 10s of billions a year in the East.

Tee
April 13, 2011 / 22:51

@Negrotski: The Reform movement predates the Tea Party movement by 20 years. Who's shadowing whom?
To say that Harper and Deficit Jim Flaherty are pro-small government is quite the stretch, considering they are the highest spending government in Canadian history.

Argie
April 14, 2011 / 06:57

Mike,

Grow up dude. You're almost 40 and you're still a socialist.

I can understand if you're 20 and surrounded by a bunch of clueless university students but you have a family, you work full time, pay taxes (I assume) and you still want to be taxed more and told how to spend your money and how to raise your kids. Geez....

El Torpedo
April 14, 2011 / 07:00

@Nicole

That's pretty funny. Ever hear of Pierre Trudeau? Look at the debt and deficit he left us with. And your Liberals that wipe out deficits "all the time" were only able to do it thanks to the groundwork laid by Mulroney (remember the GST?) who was handed Trudeau's steaming bag of poo. Back to school dear.

Irvine
April 14, 2011 / 07:18

The only reason the Liberals paid down the debt is because they offloaded all the costs to the provinces. Check out your province and municipal debt

Thats like paying ur Visa with ur Amex.

Irvine
April 14, 2011 / 07:18

The only reason the Liberals paid down the debt is because they offloaded all the costs to the provinces. Check out your province and municipal debt

Thats like paying ur Visa with ur Amex.

Mike from Lowville
April 14, 2011 / 07:18

@Argie. Dude? Thats funny. The reason he supports who he supports IS BECAUSE he has a family, HAS a full time job AND pays his fair share of taxes. Unlike the rich in this country (and corporations) who DON'T pay their fair share. If it was up to who you support, we would ALL be in precarious work struggling to support our families. WTF does age have to do with it? DUDE!

Freddie P.
April 14, 2011 / 08:36

@Mike from Lowville.

Ontario has only one reference point to the NDP and its Bob Rae.. end of story.. he even lied to the unions.
Harper is the only choice on May 2nd.

Freddie P.
April 14, 2011 / 08:49

Furhermore, I hope none of you funnyboys don't think "Shit Harper did" couldn't be reprodued for Chretien, Martin, Trudeau, Mulroney, Clark.. any of them.
Part of growing up and maturing is knowing what politics is, cutting through the bullshit and determining what really matters. Man oh man there are some ridiculous comments on here. Stuff grabbed out the newspaper without any real knowlege behind it.

Ryan P
April 14, 2011 / 09:59

@Freddie P

I'm 23 and I have a conservative sign on my lawn.

Shit Harper Did forgot to mention the 2% less I pay on everything. They also forgot to mention that my mother-in-law has a job now because of the re-training programs she used when she was laid off from her factory job.

cMc
April 14, 2011 / 10:11

Why is there always an assumption that those who want to vote NDP or even Liberal are socialists that expect their government to "tell them what to do." One reason I will be voting NDP is because I expect they are the closest I'll get to a government that will do what the people tell them to do. Those people include the marginalized, the sick, new Canadians and a whole host of voices not heard by the other parties. I am not conservative because I believe in democracy not corporate dictatorship. Our democracy (and any hope of democracy around the world) gets eroded every time our government makes trade deals (or security deals) that take precedent over choices by the people. Issues about the environment and water, for example become out of reach for the people because Capital is dictating what will and won't be appropriate for their, mostly foreign owned, business. Externalities are not taken into account and we pay for them - whether it be by cleaning up environmental mess or elevating health care costs or through social assistance for the people either not being paid enough or by supporting them when the company leaves to find greener pastures, where the minimum wage isn't as high, maybe.
It is obvious that a site like shitharperdid could exist for each leader and I say, bring it on! I want to know what our leaders are up to so that I can make a more informed decision and have some info that aren't talking points. I also think that points on this site are the things that matter - all of the apparently small things a leader does will eventually highlight a pattern that you will either be into or not. Excessive spending on the military, major corporate tax cuts, closed door bargaining, canceling the mandatory census, shutting down programs that would help women and immigrants instead of keeping them despondent enough to work for menial pay -these are all things that matter to me (among many other issues).

Irvine
April 14, 2011 / 10:42

@Mike in Lowville

Dude you are clueless. Major corporations use tax breaks that are completely legal. They are no different than the common man getting a break to write off his bus pass or his course in basket weaving at Conestoga College. MANY of those tax breaks were introduced by the Liberal government since the Trudeau era.

As for the "rich", let me explain. People that start businesses take RISKS. The government encourages that risk in the hopes of business development. You work for Ford right? Ford took a risk to build a car. Steve Jobs took a risk to build a computer. Mike Lazardis took a risk to build the blackberry. Tax breaks allow for innovation.

But then again what would you know about risk? You're just an overpaid union bum that makes cars. Your biggest risk is that you might break a nail on the line while getting your 85K a year job. You are so far gone with the whole entitlement thing you have no idea what reality is like. I might listen to your whining if you worked at Tim Hortons or caught chickens for a living. But you're a whiny spoiled overpaid brat.

PS Mike. The cream always rise to the top. Heh.

Chris in EY
April 14, 2011 / 11:54

He also kills kittens & puppies and steals candy from children. I even heard that part of his secret agenda is to cancel Christmas.

Vote for whoever represents your views on what the Governement should be involved in. But quite telling me how an arrogant elitist part will be better. Quit telling me the NDP makes sense economically. Quit telling me that the government knows better than I do. I don't want a baby sitter.

I wish the Green Party didn't have that looney Tuesday running the show - they might acually have made progress this time around.

Mike from Lowville
April 14, 2011 / 12:01

@Irvine. Wow, for somebody that has NEVER walked in my shoes and thinks he knows it all! All from a person who does more "cut and paste" on this and Fred's blog then any other poster. Talented dude, talented. On your risk takers, only one is a Canadian. Canada has one of the lowest corporate tax rates in the OECD now and that has NOT helped with the things government has said it would. You call me a whiner, spoiled, brat, bum and overpaid? Thats fine, at least I know what side my bread is buttered on. I take it your bread has its buttered side against the floor. I'm sorry you're not getting paid your worth but, don't slam and name call people who are.

p in north
April 14, 2011 / 12:09

remember that if you don't vote you are giving your vote to harper.So get oput and vote

Romy
April 14, 2011 / 12:13

LOL

Well done Mike... leave out a little "anti-Harper bait" and all the Harpies come flooding over from freddiep.ca... As predictable as the Leafs booking tee timesin mid-April.

p in north
April 14, 2011 / 12:22

take a look at the finacial web site for the country. Harper spent much much more than any other government he spent the surplus plus a heck of alot more,and continues to sneak in more tax hikes to us behind our backs ever look at your tax form and see the limits you pay on CPP and UI go up nothing was ever said about that increase that happened the first year he was in office.He also hires money laundrers and crocks into his parliment. Yea I want CONvicts running my country. yea vote Harper NOT

El Torpedo
April 14, 2011 / 13:36

Hey Romy! How are things in your little safe haven here? Don't you hate it when people with (gasp!) differing views intrude and try to expose you to them? Philistines!

voxnewman
April 14, 2011 / 14:07

Yeah, I found out about it last night. Laughed my ass off at the video. It was odd that it happened at the same time I was writing a blog on the exact same subject

Irvine
April 14, 2011 / 15:36

@Mike from Lowville

I copy and paste nothing dude. Show me.

Secondly, I'm a self employed individual that is also incorporated. I understand business and personal taxes because I pay both. I also have a great deal of sympathy for those who toil at the bottom feeder jobs in our society. The coffee girl. The cleaner. The cab drivers. They work hard for zero reward.

Your ilk is overpaid. And when their their gravy train is threatened (GM, Chrysler) due to their OWN poor vision AND outrageous demands, they expect the taxpayers to "help us out". So that 11 dollar an hour coffee girl has to pay taxes to bail out your $30 dollar an hour ass.

PS, I pay myself very well dude. Difference is my salary comes from hard work, taking risks & building something. Not some twisted sense of self entitlement like you have. Of course Jack Layton and Ignatieff would prefer to punish me & take my rewards and hand them over to your overpaid union ass.

Just like Eastern Canada constantly receives $$$ from Western Canada. Pay your own bills or maybe we'll up and leave & keep all our own money.

Freddie P.
April 14, 2011 / 18:23

Well said Irvine.

Rick C in Oakville
April 14, 2011 / 18:48

Does everyone forget that Harper was Blackmailed by the coalition 3 stooges to start stimulus spending, bringing in the deficit as we know it now.

Up until this point we still were in surplus territory.

History will show that all the stimulus spending each country dove into will have been a colossal waste of money and not benefiting the ones who needed it the most.

Dan
April 14, 2011 / 19:15

why does everyone say "Green party will never get elected"? Maybe if you vote for them they would.

If you exclude the green party, our options are
A) A man who is more religious then he is Canadian. We're a country of helping each other, not ourselves.

B) A man who believes in "Pre-emptive war" and wants to hike taxes and become a more militarized nation.

C) A guy who runs a party with good intentions, but has the fiscal responsbility of my dog.

WHY would you vote for ANY of them, when there are other options?

andrew
April 14, 2011 / 19:38

Is Charlie Sheen on the ballot??

Harper is lesser of all evils.

CQ
April 14, 2011 / 20:29

You're getting a lot of mileage out of a photo based charcoal caricature drawing the P.M. with a noticable missing tooth and grimy face.

Mike from Lowville
April 14, 2011 / 21:51

@ Irvine......BYE!

Mike from Lowville
April 14, 2011 / 21:54

Holy fuck! Freddy is almost a parrot for Irvine. Well smack me down and call me Susan!

Mike from Lowville
April 14, 2011 / 21:58

@ Rick C in Oakville, stimulus was needed. It's austerity we don't need but will soon get if Harpster gets a majority!

ABH
April 14, 2011 / 23:43

@ Irvine
out east?? ohhh, I love how you say that...and more then once to how nice of you. Did you ever fail to notice that more then half of Alberta's work force came from Canada's most easterly province? A province that handled the recession much better then either Alberta or Ontario by the way. Maybe it had something to do with the premiere that didn't like Harper and opposed him....ya know just saying, there had to be a good reason and all.

Anyways that's not what I came here to comment on, on came to comment on the shit Harper did...to tell you the truth I've never liked him. He just has this look about him, in his eyes...ugh....when Bush was in power I thought they were the best of buds, and now even though Bush isn't I'm pretty sure they are still communicating on how to destroy their countries....pfft 'their', how much can one man love himself?
After reading some of the things on the site I became even more disgusted and changed my mind on voting, because as someone said not voting is like voting for Harper. While viewing the site I was reminded of something I learned way back when in high school. Harper reminds me of Stalin, know him? The guy that was worse then Hitler but not many actually know about it because he didn't only kill one group of people and managed to keep most of it hidden? That's what hee reminds me off, keeping everything in the shadows, building up military power...torture???? Canada has forever been known as a peacekeeping country...what the hell???
One last thing, he doesn't support women, First Nations people, Imigrants, Homosexuals....this is the 21st century and people have the right to free will...and CLEAN WATER(How could he not agree with the U.N)...whatever, most people will just blindly vote for him with out really knowing any of the facts.

Harper is not the thing this country needs(except to get rid of), then again neither are any of the other parties either, we need some fresh blood. Not some old set in their ways politician that, that doesn't believe in equality.

Green's the way to go people, how can you know what they'll do if we never give them a chance?

and P.S I'm one of those lowly workers...$11? I want to live where you are, I only get $10.

CQ
April 15, 2011 / 07:43

@ ABH
blah blah blah this 'look' about him.
blah blah blah Hitler.
blah blah blah Stalin.
blah blah blah doesn't support women, First Nations people, Immigrants, Homosexuals.
blah blah blah clean water.
Really?????

P.M. Stephen Harper has brought a maturity to our dealing with Communist China rather than have Canada continuing as a yes man sellout. And furthered trade relations with India as well as South America.
And WHAT was wrong with Portugal receiving a first ever contested UN security council seat - against Canada - last summer. We have had an extraordinary abundance of great stuff happening globally. Must we have every single item in our own private national shopping cart?

He included a First Nations woman for a significant Cabinet role, plus Stephen Fletcher (a former Student president who is qualriplegic), plus 36 year-old MP Tim Uppal who's religion is Sikhism), and another MP (at least) who is "semi-openly" gay/lesbian*.
*The MP's business, no one else's.
Clean Water and a UN thing? I'd have to look into that topic. But I've seen enough of many other all-talk no-walk UN resolutions.

CQ
April 15, 2011 / 07:46

@ ABH
Canada has forever been known as a peacekeeping country...what the hell???

Tell the French, the Dutch, the Germans, the Italians (where one of my uncles died in battle) and the South Koreans that.

HammyJ
April 15, 2011 / 12:18

I rue the day I had anything to do with Stephen Harper or the Conservative (aka Reform) Party.....The Conservative Party is controlled lock, stock, and barrel by the Fundamentalist religious right. If you want to see abortion and gay rights diminished, the continuing neglect of the environment, and a move towards a republican Canada....just give these yahoos a majority govt. I choose not to.

Irvine
April 15, 2011 / 14:07

@HammyJ

Do you still think Black people should ride at the back of the bus too?

When the Alliance formed with the Reform Party, the whole Christian Fundamentalism stuff was dumped. The Conservatives understand that moving backwards (and it is backwards) isn't going to work in modern Canada. Even in true blue Alberta, support has swung to the Wildrose Alliance and THEY say "live and let live"

This nonsense about Harper taking the country "right" again is BS. It simply wouldn't fly except in small rural communities in farming areas in Quebec, Ontario, the Prairies & the interior of BC. Harper has even said he's not bringing up those issues.

And it's not whether he believes in it or not. Chretien didn't believe in gay marriage and openly admitted it. It's not acceptable to the Canadian populace so it won't happen. Politics is about numbers, not about your moral views being pushed on others.

And use your head. NO politician is going to impose their views on the country dude because it would mean the END of the party permanently.

This whole Harper as a bogeyman thing is nothing more than leftist bullshit set up by the left to "fear monger" everyone. Ontario folks can't believe "Conservative" can mean socially liberal (unless it's Naheed Nenshi, then he's god)

mikeinvancouver
April 15, 2011 / 14:48

For the average voter it comes down to whether or not you believe that tax cuts for multinational corporations and slashes to the social safety net are in your best interest or if you believe raising the taxes for these corporations and spending this money on social programs designed primarily for the middle class is in your best interest. Of course I am guilty, as just about everyone here is (including politicians) of generalizing these highly complex issues. However, as this election campaign has unfolded this is certainly the going theme.
The idea of democracy is that people vote for what is in their best interest according to their own social, economic and cultural values and needs. What is frustrating is the amount of people who do not vote for the best interests due to the notion that right wing politics preserves "economic health" and "fiscal responsibility" whereas middle to left wing economic policies are the cause of recessions, widening deficits and bane of the working mans existence. Keynesian economic policies are in fact the very basis of canadas high quality of life and to vote conservative and see the foundation of this country be dismantled is certainly not in majority of the countries best interest.

Mike from Lowville
April 17, 2011 / 08:58

@mikeinvancouver, another Mike who KNOWS what he is talking about!

Irvine
April 17, 2011 / 16:07

@mikeinvancouver

Seems your province did quite well under the helm of Gordon "I'm really Conservative" Campbell.

BC is the second richest have province after Alberta. It's got a fledgling energy industry (Horn River) and it's major city has THE best transit system in Canada. Hell Vancouver is Canada's greatest city, high real estate aside *but that's not the fault of the government*

If you want to fund social programs you need to create wealth. It's really that simple. That's why if you travel to Haiti you don't find social safety nets or soup kitchens because there is no money to fund them.

Miel Velt
April 17, 2011 / 18:28

Cambos a fucking idiot

Cambo
April 18, 2011 / 09:13

@Miel Velt

Wow. that is such an educated, thought-provoking, well researched statement.

Can you put up an actual argument without resorting to 8th grade name calling?

J
April 20, 2011 / 09:05

If they told the truth, the 'industrialized nations' are falling like dominoes, because the manufacturers of the world have set up offshore, and send goods to us duty and tax free. The manufacturing jobs disappear, the tax base shortens, jobs don't pay as much.. Taxes, expenses increase, the common person gets broker and broker, eventually governments start to fail.
GE made 8 billion profit in US last year, and paid zero tax, in fact the US gov't owes them. And OUR corporate tax rates are lower than theirs.
Harper is the public face for big business, and when he talks economy, he's talking big business, not individual taxpayer.
Tax Imports! That's how to cut the deficit. Check out Donald Trump's thoughts on this.

Rob Campbell
April 21, 2011 / 11:20

Please please please do NOT vote conservative. we must get rid of this autocratic ahole

Larry
May 26, 2011 / 14:57

Harper looks like a manican and he really looks like a gay child molester. Canada why did you vote this fucking moron in again now we are screwed just wait and see!!!!!

larry
May 26, 2011 / 15:01

Did i mention that harper is a christian help us all religion is all a fiction but the christians are the worst religion of them all they hate others who are not of there bullshit made up faith.

larry
May 26, 2011 / 15:04

Hey Canada well the one's who voted for harper fuck you all and thanks for the total stupidaty.

larry
May 26, 2011 / 19:28

Hey harper, by those new fighter jets you the ones with one engine and probably will run out of fuel before making it across lake Ontario. Do we need all this, guess you can send them over to the fucking americans wherever they will attack next. Total idiot

Darren
January 11, 2012 / 15:21

It's funny because I'm in high school in Quebec and I'm pretty sure that I would make a more educated voter than most of you because if we vote for harper, which the majority of you did, we will still go back to losing money for nothing, having higher tax rates to help bail out the government for all the useless things they want to pay for like those 65 fighter jets for 29 BILLION dollars. Also, did you guys read that harper ( yes i don't write his name with a capital because a man like him doesn't deserve to ) has refused too sign a chart that said clean water was a human right? That's horrible and yet that's what the majority of you voters voted for and are happy to have a man like him in charge of ruining our country. Ps. I am also sure that a man who covers the parliament lobby with pictures of only himself and renames the government the 'Harper Government' shouldn't be in charge of running our country yet he does do a good job at ruining it.
Good Day

Terence Stone
January 12, 2012 / 12:30

It looks like the link is broken to "Shit Harper Did". Is this coincidental, or another example of shit Harper did?

Harper is the tar baby from whom we all need to get unstuck.