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Originally Posted by Slava
Nope, Stephen Harper.
I am trying to think of any main campaign promise he's actually kept?
- Senate Reform: Nope
- Won't run a deficit: Not even close.
- Fixed election dates: Broke his own law.
- Never changing taxation of income trusts: flip-flopped.
The list just goes on and on. Frankly this doesn't even mention some of the more egregious issues in my opinion. There are issues with people peddling or attempting to peddle influece, people working for the PMO who've been convicted of fraud not once but numerous times, documents that have been altered in plain sight, what appears to be the contravention of electoral laws, etc. Its really disgraceful.
I get that people are fiscally conservative and all that (and I count myself amongst those ranks), but how can you trust that any of his current promises are ever going to take place?
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A lot of the things you posted are hard to do with a minority government. How do you reform Senate with a minority government? He didn't poke the bear to call this election, he prorogued government to prevent the last election overthrow... Your basing your ideas of #### that he had little or no control over.
Running no deficit? Hard to do when you are hit with the worst economic recession since the great depression, when oil and natural gas prices are at a very low price.
One of my professors at the university taught Harper during his grad school years and said that he gets painted this negative image by the media but is actually a pretty nice, quiet, contempt guy. I tend to agree, the one time i met Harper (back before he was PM) he seemed like a really stand up guy.