un-canadien-errant:

ellorgast:

allthecanadianpolitics:

oliviabondoc:

mycroftholmestm:

please shut the shut up about the american election until the canadian one is over seriously you guys have so long and we have less than a month and our equivalent of donald trump has been in power for a decade please help us overthrow him first

is harper rly the equivalent of donald trump tho :/ :/ :/

I’d say the comparison is apt:

Harper’s “old stock Canadians” line is downright racist and xenophobic

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Stephen Harper’s War On Women

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Premiers Say Ottawa Cutting Health Funding By $36 Billion Over 10 Years

C-51 will remake Canada in Harper’s paranoid image

It’s official – second class citizenship goes into effect

Harper Named World’s ‘Worst Climate Villain’ After Damning Report

The thing is, people seem to not see Harper as being like Trump or Bush because he’s not “funny.” There is no punchline. There are no “guess what offensively dumb thing he said now” jokes.

Because Steven Harper obsessively controls the message. Journalist access to him and his party has been almost entirely cut off. Imagine a democratic country where journalists can’t ask the prime minister questions. Almost nothing gets said in the media that hasn’t been planned and vetted.

So yeah, Harper never said that he wants to build a wall around Canada. He just went ahead and gutted the refugee processing system. He never said anything overtly racist against Indigenous women. He just ignored repeated pleas for an inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women. The fact that he doesn’t act like a cartoon villain in the media doesn’t make him any less of one.

All. Of. This. We don’t do the big flashy candidates in Canada. And frankly that’s a lot scarier sometimes, because Harper’s cool, collected facade will make a lot of Canadians think he’s not a xenophobic, climate change denier who is ruining the Canada I’ve been proud to live in. 

Vote. Him. OUT.

(via funfetti-cakke)