Thursday, April 23, 2015

Is the Canada Revenue Agency Now Spreading Con Propaganda?



We know the Canada Revenue Agency was given extra money by Stephen Harper to go after the political activities of registered charities.

We know that the agency seems to be targeting groups that have dared to criticize government policies.

But not right-wing organizations that support the Harper regime.

But is the CRA now helping to spread Con propaganda? 

No one likes getting mail from the Canada Revenue Agency. Usually, anyway. But when Edmonton mom Rosemary Ronald opened one letter two weeks ago, she discovered what was intended to be good news: a description of a "proposed" government family benefit soon available to her family, accompanying a request to confirm information they already had (based on past tax filings) about her child.

And using any excuse to do that.

"I just found it a little rich for the CRA to be asking me to confirm that information when they have that information," she told CBC News. "They know if I have a child and his birthday."

Even though the benefits the CRA is touting have yet to be approved by Parliament.

While Parliament has adopted a motion accepting the measures in principle — which allows CRA to recognize them — the legislation to implement these payments was only introduced a few weeks ago. It's weeks away from passing through all stages of Parliament and being made official.

Because while we know that Pierre Poilievre is desperate to get that message out...



Human Resources Minister Pierre Poilievre held news conferences last week encouraging families to "sign up" so they don't miss out on benefits to which they are now entitled.


Because as we know he's not partisan eh?

And we know that the Porky Action Plan propaganda site is humming like a bee hive. 

With OUR honey... or money.

If the CRA, which is going after groups for allegedly partisan activities, is now itself helping spread partisan propaganda, we have reached a new low in this ghastly Harperland...



"Conservatives stray towards the politics all the time — campaigning all the time — and use every tool at their disposal and, I think, sometimes breaking the rules," NDP finance critic Nathan Cullen told CBC. 

 "It gets to a point where enough is enough. You have to put up with those terrible ads during the hockey games, and now you are being sent propaganda through government agencies that really is just Conservative party material," Cullen said.

Or a new level of partisan political inquisition. 

Though a CRA spokesperson will come out once in a while to proclaim that the executive branch has no influence over which groups the agency targets, right-wing civil society organizations have yet to receive much attention from the tax agency. Rather, the latest charity to be targeted in a significant way is the United Steelworkers' Humanity Fund, a labour-backed organization that has supported food banks and disaster relief initiatives for over 30 years.

Or the end of Canada as we know it.

And all I can say is that when this filthy Con regime is finally defeated we are going to have to hold a massive public inquiry and/or criminal investigation into the activities of government departments during the Harper years.

And if they are found to have been collaborating with that regime, instead of serving the people of Canada, their punishment must be exemplary.

And they will end up in the same place he will...



Because enough really is ENOUGH.

That monster does corrupt everything he touches.

And I want my Canada back...

Please click here to recommend this post at Progressive Bloggers.

7 comments:

  1. Anonymous7:03 PM

    Simon, Simon....... we're still waiting for the quantum event. It hasn't happened yet. Oliver's musings about someone's grandaughter was in the ballpark.

    But what is needed is the home run, that which sends the CON's to the hills......... and their acolytes into paroxysms of fulmination.

    We can only hope......... it might happen this summer if enough sh...t bubbles up to the surface.

    Anonymous-B [his brother]

    ReplyDelete
  2. Anonymous3:25 AM

    Isn't it nice to be conned by the Cons with our own money? They've only been doing this since the birth of their "Economic Inaction Plan" touting "No Jobs, No Growth, No Prosperity". I guess they figured after what must be over half a billion dollars wasted on advertising, that we would somehow become assimilated into their "Base" where either the necks are red, the brains are dead or of the corporate bred. Sorry Slimy Steve, I can see right through you which ironically is the only transparency we'll ever see out of this criminal organization.
    JD

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Hi JD... It is a criminal organization, the way they use our money to brainwash us and undermine our democracy should in itself make them unfit to remain in office. But unfortunately we live in a very complacent country, so by now him and his Cons must think they can fool all the people all the time, or get away with anything. We'll see about that...

      Delete
  3. https://twitter.com/HarrisAuthor/status/591323876891721728

    Michael Harris: "never forget with harper: talking points have nothing to do with the truth"

    *
    And why hasn't the CBC released the 63 pages of Tory talking points online?

    https://twitter.com/PnPCBC/status/590984167019675649

    Did the hammer come down from the CBC board of directors? Nine of the eleven members of the CBC board are supporters of the Conservatives:

    THE CONSERVATIVE BROADCASTING CORPORATION
    http://www.friends.ca/blog-post/11728


    ReplyDelete
  4. Video: April 22 Power & Politics
    http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/TV+Shows/Power+%26+Politics+with+Evan+Solomon/ID/2665139239/

    ReplyDelete
  5. Hi anon 7:03 pm...yes it won't be the deciding blow, but it should help encourage younger Canadians to vote. And I'm still hoping the Duffy trial and other scandals will combine to wear him down. The desire for change is still strong, and the longer he stays in office the stronger that will become...

    ReplyDelete
  6. Anonymous11:54 AM

    Hi Simon I was surprised and happy to see how many Canadians rallied against Bill C-51 finally they got riled up enough I was proud to witness that. There were young there were old and every age group between First Nations everybody a real cross section of all Canadians. Yes Simon enough is enough. Harper now has proven he is so cold and calculating he does not give a damn about his own grand daughter's future. He does not care about ours either. He cares about nobody but himself and Benji.

    http://www.torontosun.com/2015/04/18/canadians-rally-nationwide-against-bill-c-51

    Mogs

    ReplyDelete