Stephen Harper Lies About Other Things

These two aren't so much lie lies, it's not that what he's saying is inaccurate - it's what he's not saying that qualify these remarks as lies.

I've already talked about his lies on the arts today, but he also lied about an environmental plan and about food safety.

On the environment Harper trotted out what he would like us to believe is an environmental plan. He says that he wants to increase the fines for "the most serious environmental crimes to $6 million for corporations and $1 million for individuals."

What he doesn't say (the part that makes it a lie):

Global warming, and the pollution of our air, water and soil as well as the dwindling of many endangered species have all been caused by legal pollution, there would be no impact on most polluters just the ones that broke our rather lax environmental laws

Polluters are so heavily subsidized and otherwise taken care of that even the largest of Harper's fines wouldn't even put a dent in their Federal Subsidies. (wouldn't it be nice if Harper was as hard on polluters as he is on 14 year olds).

The Liberals, NDP, and Green Party all have an environmental plan, Stephen Harper does not. What he has proposed isn't an environmental plan it's basically just an accounting trick.

Next, Stephen Harper lashed out at past Liberal Governments for acting on food safety. While it's true that the Liberals should have acted and didn't - that Liberal government, along with it's leader and most of its Cabinet Ministers are gone. What makes it a lie is, again, what Harper didn't say. Namely that:

First Harper has been prime minister for 2.5 years and also did not act on, suggest acting on or promote action on the Liberal policies that upset him so much today.

Second the Conservatives actually cut funding for inspections and made our food less safe.

The Liberals at least had the good sense not to make fun of the victims.

Again, Stephen Harper can only win if people don't think about what he's saying.