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Crazy how the only one of these airing criticism that says the budget isn't doing enough is the publicly owned one.

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[–] akakunai@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

As someone who was in elementary school under Harper and (obviously) not into politics...can I ask for an abridged version of your view on Harper's terms and what your biggest complaints were with his leadership?

I've done some looking online for a while, but it's hard to find good retrospectives on his whole stint as prime minister and not old single-issue news articles.

All that comes to mind when I think Harper is:

  • Islamophobia
  • some budget problem that caused some kind of short-lived governmental crisis
  • inferior hair compared to Trudeau
[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago

He converted several social welfare programs to tax credits (meaning people had to have the money up front to participate, and wait for a refund at tax time). He slashed funding to scientific research that didn't promote his worldview. He fired public researchers for speaking about their research that contradicted his narratives. He sold off the federal wheat pool to foreign interests. He began the country's push toward a private healthcare system. He slashed funding for social support systems. He changed provincial equalization payments in a way that put extra strain on poorer provinces.

He made things easier for the rich and those from hegemonic social and ethnic groups, while making things harder for the rest. As is the conservative way.