Mel Hurtig > Quotes

“The Canada we know and love will not survive another four years of Stephen Harper and his Conservative government.”
― Mel Hurtig, The Arrogant Autocrat: Stephen Harper's Takeover of Canada

“Harper’s Conservatives have used three basic methods to undermine environmental stewardship in Canada: reduce the government’s capacity to gather data; downsize or eliminate offices that monitor and analyze scientific information; and seize control of channels of scientific information and prevent the publication or release of any information that could interfere with government policy.”
― Mel Hurtig, The Arrogant Autocrat: Stephen Harper's Takeover of Canada

“Harper’s record on the environment is not just appalling, it’s irrational, shameful and catastrophic for our country and the world.”
― Mel Hurtig, The Arrogant Autocrat: Stephen Harper's Takeover of Canada

“actions of the Harper government remain inexplicable for most rational, thoughtful Canadians, though some have looked for an explanation in the evangelical fundamentalist religious bent of the Harper Conservatives’ support base, particularly early Reform Party supporters. For this group, science itself is heresy, promoting the theory of evolution which they see as a threat to the concept of creation outlined in the book of Genesis.”
― Mel Hurtig, The Arrogant Autocrat: Stephen Harper's Takeover of Canada

“the leader of a so-called democracy who ignores the will of the majority or fears criticism of his actions must resort to slinking in the shadows and to tightly controlling access to himself and to his ministers. Such is Stephen Harper’s government.”
― Mel Hurtig, The Arrogant Autocrat: Stephen Harper's Takeover of Canada

“The damage that Stephen Harper has managed to inflict on so many aspects of Canadian democracy in just a few short years is frightening. That we have failed to stop it from happening, even more”
― Mel Hurtig, The Arrogant Autocrat: Stephen Harper's Takeover of Canada