Tyee staff and contributors have compiled a list of 70 government assaults on democracy and the law. As a list of 70 is pretty difficult for anyone to verify all at once we will post a few at a time. To read the entire list at once go to this link.
Conservative MP
Admits He Lied to Parliament
As opposition
members claimed the Harper government was out to rig election rules in its
favour, Conservative MP Brad Butt rose in the House of Commons to say why the
bill was needed -- all the voter fraud he had personally witnessed. Weeks later
he rose again to say his statements were false. Delivering his strained
apology, he failed to explain why he lied in the first place.
Conservative
House Leader Admits to Mockery of Question Period
Criticized far
and wide for farcical answers in question period, Paul Calandra,
parliamentary secretary to Harper, made a tearful apology for abuse of the
democratic process.
Harper Maligns
the Supreme Court Chief Justice
The Prime
Minister took the unprecedented step of alleging inappropriate conduct by Chief Justice
Beverley McLachlin. Facts undermined the credibility of the PM's position.
Conservatives
Engage in Abuse of Process with Omnibus Bills
Harper's party
pushed legislation through Parliament via omnibus bills, the scale of which Parliament had never seen.
Such bills are widely condemned as an abuse of the democratic process,
because they blend and bury so many controversial laws within one dense
package. Harper himself once railed against them, and his born again love for
them made his own MPs queasy. Referencing such
bills, former auditor general Sheila Fraser said that "Parliament has become so undermined that it
is almost unable to do the job that people expect of it."
'Parliament has
become so undermined that it is almost unable to do the job that people expect
of it.' Former auditor general Sheila Fraser on Harper's omnibus bills.
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