Commenter Salem5 on CBC.ca writes:
Is it ethical, moral or right to:
- bribe a dying a man, then lie about it and drag his family through mud and back;
- To fire a Liberal appointed Nuclear watch-dog for doing her job when the Conservative appointed head of Atomic Energy of Canada is at fault;
- to lose Canadians millions over a broken promise on income trusts;
- To claw back on resource royalties from have-not provinces through a broken promise on the Atlantic Accord;
- To fix elections then call one, siting parliament as disfunctional despite passing every bit of legislation you want;
- To brand your opponent as not a leader, without any knowledge in support, only days after his appointment;
- To welcome a floor-crosser to your party, having just spent Liberal money to get elected, and make him a minister;
- To take the electorate for granted by not realing a plan until days before the election;
- To run disgusting and defamatory ads;
- To use scare tactics to discredit your opponents platforms despite the fact that they are signficantly supported by the scientific and economic communities;
- To commit election fraud;
- To squander a surplus, running a budget that will trun a deficit, then suggesting your opponents will run a deficit;
- To suggest the economy is fine, that we aren't headed for a recession, while simultaneously saying that we are in uncertain times;
- To bride families with tax cuts and $100 child allowance when clearly that won't buy you shorter waits times for health care or a child care spot;
- To lie to Canadians, suggesting your opponents are raising taxes when;
- To suggest the environment is fine when scientists say otherwise and the Alberta Oil Sands environmental devastation is visible from space;
-To publicly humiliate someone with a hearing impairment;
- To stand behind your ministers, when they leave classified information behind, call your opponents dogs in the House, make jokes about Listeriosis...;
Ladies and gentlemen, I could go on but my character limite is looming. The Harpers have accomplished the above and more in only two and three-quarter years in power. To my neighbour who still sites the Sponsorship Scandal as a reason to vote Harper, if you add the costs associated with all Steve's gaffs, scandals and controversies, the Sponsorship Scandal is literally just pennies in a pot. Does that justify a Liberal vote? Not really. But Dion has conducted himself with dignity and respect, two words Harper is unfamiliar with.