CAITI was among the first to decry Harper's attack on democracy

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It has become very fashionable of late for many in the media to speak out against Stephen Harper's undermining of Canadian democracy. These journalist/reporter/media types are laughably late to this story, by about FOUR years. Evidently these people in the media need to have the picture painted for them in Technicolour before they realize what's been going on with the degradation of Canada's democracy from the very moment that Harper first entered office as PM.

Four years is a bit late to be catching on to this story don't you think? CAITI ran a series of ads in the Hill Times in the first three months of 2007 when CAITI first came into existence that were all about Harper's attack on Canada's democracy. One of these CAITI ads is pictured above entitled "Stephen Harper's insidious attack on democracy" that ran in February 2007, and this ad copy cites seven separate incidents that occurred to that point which indicated Harper's insidious attack on Canada's democracy. That was almost three years ago! Where was the press then on this story, back then? For those of us who were paying attention, it comes as no surprise that three years later we have the very same Stephen Harper proroguing Parliament for the second time in less that a year, in order to avoid being accountable for the possible torture of Afghan detainees and as the means to evade accountability to the Canadian people.

But what did anyone expect from a Prime Minister who completely evaded accountability for causing $35 billion in losses to Canadians hard earned savings from his income trust policy that was based on his argument that income trusts cause tax leakage. A concept whose "proof" took the form of 18 pages of blacked out documents? The Canadian media was Harper's greatest ally and enabler in evading accountability on that massive fraud of a tax policy. What else did people really need to know about Harper's complete disregard for being held to account, than that seminal experience? Or any of the other six separate incidents cited in the CAITI ad of February 2007? The writing was on the wall. Too bad, it took the rest of the country and virtually all of the media another THREE YEARS to awaken to what was obvious to anyone with half a brain, and the ability to connect the dots, back then.

Meanwhile the Canadian news media is only now picking up on that theme, almost THREE YEARS later. Where have these people been, such that they are only now awakening to this obvious assault on Canada's democracy by Stephen Harper? This is what you get when the media in Canada is so narrowly held by a small number of commercial interests whose agenda is often at opposition with that of Canadians at large and who are more than happy to obscure the truth on something so demonstrably false as tax leakage. Tax leakage, as reported in the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the National Post, the Calgary Herald et al, is reported upon as if it were the truth, when in fact it is a blatant and demonstrable lie.

Which makes you wonder, who is more responsible for the degradation of democracy in Canada? Stephen Harper or the Canadian media? Stephen Harper or the editors of the Globe and Mail? Stephen Harper or the Editorial Board of the Toronto Star?

I treat them all with the same level of disdain, as collectively they are responsible for the degradation of Canada's democracy. Stephen Harper along with the sycophant Canadian media. Pox on all of them.