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The Harper Record

Teresa Healy

出版	Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2008
主題	History / Canada / GeneralPolitical Science / GeneralPolitical Science / Security (National & International)Political Science / Public Policy / Economic PolicyPolitical Science / Public Policy / Social PolicyPolitical Science / Public Policy / Environmental Policy
ISBN	18975690689781897569061
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=eTokAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

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The Harper government's policies are moving our country backwards toward a vision of society, the role of government, and the nature of the federation reminiscent of the 1920s. [...] As the government tried to liberalize markets in grains, the Wheat Board Ceo was fired 14 The Harper Record and the government worked to prevent Board members from speaking out in support of the marketing board. [...] The report of the Iacobucci Commission was originally meant to be submitted the week before the 2008 election was called, but was delayed until the week after the election.9 Both the Liberals who were in power during the events in question and the Conservatives, who are in favour of the anti-terrorist agenda, were thus spared public scrutiny on these issues during the election campaign. [...] Conclusion In the 32 months that the Conservative minority government was in power between 2006 and 2008, the people of Canada faced signifi- cant challenges because of the substance of what the Harper govern- ment achieved and because of the anti-democratic way in which he went about it. [...] In a 1989 memo to Preston Manning, he argued that the core political cleavage in contemporary Western democracies pits taxpayers and private sector-oriented citizens (the ideological right) against the public sector-oriented political class and "tax recipients of the Welfare State" (the ideological left).17 The conserv- ative coalition of the right would include the corporate sector and the privat.