Category Archives: Government
Fearing for the climate in a climate of fear
By Peter Ormond With a single legislative blow, the Harper government destroyed decades of environmental protections, with no debate, by rolling changes to 70 different laws into an ‘omnibus’ budget. How ending the process of environmental assessments is a budgetary
Harper’s ‘new era of accountability’
By Michael Nabert It is becoming increasingly clear that you can believe in government accountability in Canada, or you can support the Harper government, but you cannot do both, any more than you can support not being on fire and
Stephen Harper’s 2015 election plan: stacking the deck in his favour
By Michael Nabert The Harper government’s so called “Fair Election Act” is one of the most egregious attacks on the very idea of fair elections that Canada has ever seen, but their strategy to game the system and rewrite the
Seven years ago today, Harper government tried to keep secret Canada-U.S. deal allowing each other’s troops to be deployed in civil emergencies
On February 14, 2008, Canada and the U.S. signed an agreement paving the way for the troops from either nation to be deployed across the border on the other nation’s soil during emergencies, but the Harper government did not want