Possibly the only truly honest statement Harper has ever uttered was his 2006 threat to reconfigure Canada: “You won’t recognize Canada when I’m through with it”.
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An article in the Winnipeg Free Press deconstructs the Harper government communications strategy that stamps PMSHithead's brand on every media event.
Internal documents show the prime minister's department micro-managed a media event staged by Parks Canada, trying to erase the venerable agency from a public announcement while promoting the Harper government.
The incident is a case study in communications control from the centre, a signal feature of the governing Conservatives since they first came to power in 2006.
The event was an Oct. 17, 2011, news conference in Halifax to announce an agreement to transform Sable Island, a fabled sand crescent 290 kilometres off Nova Scotia, into a national park reserve.
The deal had been meticulously negotiated by Parks Canada with the Nova Scotia government over the course of a year, and proud officials wanted a splashy announcement as a way to celebrate Parks Canada's 100th birthday in 2011.[...]
Alas for Parks Canada, the carefully wrought plan started to unravel days before the event when a vetting team at the Privy Council Office began to pick apart the agenda, the news release and two background documents, demanding changes. The office is the central organ of the federal government, under the control of Prime Minister Stephen Harper.[...]
When the Privy Council Office finally responded, officials demanded a raft of changes, many of them designed to quash Parks Canada's identity at the event.
A so-called "backgrounder" for handout to news media, for example, erased the agency's name altogether.
"I note the only change was that Parks Canada was 'disappeared,'" an agency official noted. "I have never seen our name completely eliminated in this manner before."
The stage backdrops for the news conference in Halifax were to have included a Parks Canada banner celebrating the agency's centennial in 2011. PCO told officials to get rid of it.
"No Parks Canada banner — the brown and yellow is ugly. Please stop using this," an unidentified official demanded in a note.
Remember, the Harper government has slashed and burned essential, front line services as well as exemplary best practices and performance achievements in world-respected programs, such as the Experimental Lakes Areas, "the one-of-a-kind outdoor laboratory that has informed the world about the effects of contaminants such as mercury, acid rain and phosphorus".
But it has hired hundreds of communications hacks to crank out propaganda in line with the PMO aka Harper's Politburo's tactical campaign of disinformation through speaking points regurgitated by Attack™ MPs.
And then, there's the millions of $$$ spent advertising Harper's brand of conservatism.
Update: More calculated BS from the Corruption Party government:
Canada’s longstanding shortage of skilled workers has apparently made Prime Minister Stephen Harper mad as hell and he’s not going to take it anymore.This is a classic message-framing tactic, straight from the Karl Rove / Tom Flanagan play-book on media manipulation. Next step: Diane Findley will be wringing her hands over the *fact* that non-union, cheap imported indentured workers have to be imported from China and other authoritarian regimes to fill those jobs in the tarsands and other raw-resource extraction industries.
Sources tell [DJ! emphasis] CBC News that, for the past year, the prime minister has been banging heads in his government to come up with new ways to help Canadians get the right skills for the right jobs — namely, thousands of vacancies that companies are begging to fill.
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Harper is not a Conservative. He was Policy Chief of his, Northern Foundation Party of 1989. We have been dictated to call this government, The Harper Government and not the Conservative government. Once Harper cheated his majority, I thought for sure he would rename his party, the Northern Foundation Party. Harper hates Canada, no Dictator will permit Democracy.
If you read about, Hitler's early political days? Harper is a dead ringer. The lies, deceit, corruption, thefts, dirty tactics, dirty politics and cheating to win, is a practice of all Dictators. Control of the media is, Dictators number one to control first. Then they grab control of everything, they get their dirty hands on. Remember Goebbels propaganda machine?
Canadian tax payers even buy Harper's minions houses. Harper and his Cons have the record of being, the worst thieves and abusers of our tax money.
All of the opposition, are going along with Harper evil treachery. I can't believe the opposition doesn't see through Harper? If we can, they can.
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