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Originally posted by OFKU0
I still haven't heard one person explain why Stephen Harper is so scary. There really isn't much difference between what he was proposing and what Paul Martin was. I think people just like saying things like that to make it seem like they know whats going on or to be en vogue. If they knew, they would explain.
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Stephe Harper is scary because:
1. He is socially conservative and he and his party in particular have a conservative social agenda.
2. He hid his conservative social agenda (abortion, equality for gays, death penalty, etc. ) throughout the election always tap dancing around the issues.
3. His party does not have a clear party policy on social issues. In fact, they have no official policy in writing whatsoever
4. Although raised in Ontario, Harper has spent the last 20 years in Alberta and he has become very Alberta Reform right wing, with comments about Alberta building a firewall around itself to insulate itself from the rest of Canada, etc.
5. His stupid comments about bilingualism. (It's here, it's here to stay, let's not take a step backward.)
6. His stupid comments about Paul Martin being for kiddie porn.
7. Ralph Klein.
8. Harper's ideas to drastically increase the size of military spending, increase health care, decrease taxes AND balance the budget. I'd love to know just how in hell he planned to do that little soft shoe routine. Either he would have to massvely cut through out the rest of the government or he would have to deficit finance. Deficit financing is the worst thing a country could do.
9. His lack of a credible Quebec wing.
10. A two tiered health care system.
11. His changing hair cut.