Stephen Harper's firing range: A list of 87 organizations and people attacked in five years

By Dennis Gruending 

Rabble, April 1, 2011

The Conservative government, or the Harper government as it insists upon being called, has either fallen or engineered its own defeat and the election is upon us. This is perhaps a good time to take stock of who the Harperites have spent their time attacking in the past several years. They have also lavished favour on their own, appointing them to be judges, to the Immigration Review Board, the CRTC or other federal agencies.

The list of organizations that have been shut down and cut back, and the individuals bullied, is a long one and we can expect it to grow if, as seems likely, Harper is reelected.

I have written extensively about some of these actions, including the government's attack on the ecumenical group KAIROS and the shameful treatment of the Rights and Democracy organization, but I cannot claim that my list is comprehensive. The following list was  compiled primarily by Judith Szabo and by Pearl Eliadis for "Voices," a coalition of organizations and individuals which describes itself as "united in defence of democracy, free speech and transparency in Canada."

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