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                        January 30, 2012

 Prime Minister Harper,

We are writing to express our profound disgust with certain actions taken by your government, which constitutes an affront to our Parliament and by logical extension, the citizens of Canada.

Under your leadership, Canada’s 40th Parliament was a sordid affair that saw a succession of Cabinet members engaged in the willful distortion of fact, alteration of documents, and the redirection of moneys appropriated from Parliament through fraudulent means.

Yours has been a government of firsts.  The Minister for International Co-operation, Bev Oda, became the first Minister of Canada’s Parliament to willfully mislead the House and participate in the forgery of public documents belonging to the Crown.

Your government became the first in Canada’s history to be found “in contempt of Parliament”, after a thorough investigation conducted by Canada’s longest serving Speaker of the House, Peter Millikin.

Defence Minister Peter MacKay has issued statements about his personal use of government aircraft, which are blatantly contradicted by official documentation provided by the Canadian Armed Forces.

Treasury Board President Tony Clement has clearly abused his position, as it relates to the distribution of moneys fraudulently appropriated from the Border Infrastructure Fund.  Multi millions of Canadian tax payer dollars were redirected to his constituency riding, circumventing due diligence and required documentation.

Such actions would constitute a criminal conspiracy and we demand that Minister Clement be fired and investigated forthwith.

During the latter part of 2011, the Conservative Party of Canada initiated a campaign in the riding of Liberal member Irwin Cotler.  Constituents were contacted and informed the honourable member was resigning.  This was a willful misrepresentation of the truth and was intended to impune the efficacy of this member.

Current Conservative Speaker of the House, Andrew Scheer, ruled your government’s actions were “reprehensible” in regard to this matter.

Recently your House Leader Peter Van Loan rose in the Commons to defend these acts of lying and misinformation as an expression of free speech that must be protected.  As House Leader he clearly speaks for your government and we condemn this assertion emphatically.

Mr. Prime Minister, we say to you in no uncertain terms, the behaviour of your government from its inception has been a disgrace to the institution it was elected to defend.

The continued presence of the Ministers named in this document is an affront to Parliament and the citizens of the country as a whole.

We demand the immediate termination of Bev Oda, Tony Clement, Peter MacKay and Peter Van Loan from any position representative of the Nation of Canada and her people.

Prime Minister Harper, you have been quick to invoke patriotism as a gimmick to manipulate public perceptions and your warnings of “foreign influences” serve the same master.

Allow us to close on this point.  Cursory research would suggest you are the least traveled Prime Minister prior to election, including Sir John A. Macdonald.  Clearly in your case, proximity does not equate to an intimate understanding of what constitutes Canadian values as none in history have demonstrated your contempt and animus for this Nation, her conventions and institutions.

We demand your government conduct itself with the integrity, honesty and dignity warranted and deserved by the citizens of Canada and reject your contention that willful misrepresentation of facts could ever lend itself to freedom or good governance.  We further await your response.

Resolutely,

Mr. Mike Darnell                                                      Ms. Amy MacPherson

Spokesperson/Media                                                         Administrator

Fire the Liars                                                                        Fire the Liars

You are hereby officially welcomed to Fire the Liars!  This campaign began with modest roots and just a group of colleagues and friends engaged in discourse.  We shared grievances about the lack of transparency and accountability in our current Canadian government.  Most shocking was Minister Oda being held in Contempt of Parliament.  That had never happened in our history and quite frankly we were astonished.  Our concerns grew when the RCMP had to probe Minister Clement, for secretly diverting multi millions in G8 slush funds to the friends in his neighbourhood.  With little time to process that matter of trust, the headlines then discovered Minister MacKay was using military helicopters for personal dates and had lied about it.  The Canadian Armed Forces were so aggrieved; they came forward with documents to show the truth and their own disapproval of his actions.  Like most of you we were shaking our heads.

What came next is really what motivated us to action.  Not only did the Prime Minister fail to demote these characters, but he sent House Leader Van Loan to justify and defend their actions.  The leader, the one responsible for guiding others, responded that lying is a freedom of speech and furthermore we should protect it.  In short, we do not support these same beliefs and think it’s inappropriate for Ministers to lie to the institution, their colleagues and the public.  Lying is not accepted in any government institution and we demand that it not be permitted in parliament.  How can we trust leaders who claim a privilege to lie with our private information and all of Canada’s finances?

This was the birth of Fire the Liars and how a caring group of citizens came together across the country.  We expect transparency and accountability in our government and we hope you’ll share this sentiment with us.  We’re determined to restore ethics and respect to parliament, so for that we’ll need your help.  The time has come for Canada to say we don’t accept lying as a common tactic to deal with us, our children or our grandparents!

Thanks for joining us and from your friends, at the Fire the Liars Campaign Team.

We are still in the preliminary stages of organizing the Fire The Liars campaign. Our preliminary website is due to officially launch this Monday, Jan 16th. It will serve as a source for collaborating on information and to disseminate news of the campaign.

To get involved and contribute your ideas contact communications(at)firetheliars.ca