What Is In The Budget Implementation Bill?

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4) Silencing agencies and charities that say things you don’t like

The budget implementation bill shut down several agencies, including:

National Council of Welfare, the Public Appointments Commission, Rights and Democracy, the National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy, the Canadian Artists and Producers Professional Relations Tribunal and Assisted Human Reproduction Canada.

It also changes the rules about acceptable donations to charities, reducing the amount of money people can donate to charities that are considered too politically active and allowing the minister to withhold tax receipts from a charity if he or she feels the money is being used for political campaigns.

5) Declares that companies bidding on federal contracts no longer have to pair “fair wages.”

6) Eliminates almost 300,000 immigration applications so that the government can start off with a clean slate. It also robs those 300,000 people of the hope and time they’ve dedicated to trying to get into Canada. Not to mention the salaries of those workers paid to process the applications being tossed, and the refunds of immigration fees the government will have to pay out.

And so much more.

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Vicky P.

8:27PM PDT on May 31, 2012

:s Hopefully he doesn't do anything too crappy

May 31
send a green star

Terrence N.

7:04PM PDT on May 31, 2012

Kimberlee, we have to put up with these guys until 2015! Hopefully the Canada I know and love will not be completely dismantled by then. However, the changes Harper is sneaking in will apparently be difficult to reverse.

Kimberlee W.

1:04PM PDT on May 31, 2012

Just curious to my Canadian friends out there - - How long before you can chase this SOB out of office and just how the F*CK did he ever get elected in the first place? Did he sound like this when he was running?
signed -
Curious down here in the States

Leslea H.

12:02PM PDT on May 31, 2012

Harper and his REFORM party scumbags are the WORST thing to happen to Canada. Ever. Bar none.

They're out to destroy Canada & what it used to stand for. He's a criminal, traitor and he's doing everything he can to destroy the best things about this country, all the while, promoting the worst.

The guy isn't a PM. He's a threat the likes of which we've never had up here before.