Amount Immigration Minister Jason Kenney sought to raise using government letterhead to support a Conservative Party strategy targeting “very ethnic” ridings in the Greater Toronto Area: $200,000
Amount Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page reported the war in Afghanistan had cost Canada in 2008: $18 Billion
Percentage by which the Harper Government reduced Kevin Page’s budget in 2009 as punishment for revealing the true cost of the war to Canadians: 46 percent
Amount Page determined the “total ownership cost” of F-35 Fighter jets would be in his report peer-reviewed by non-partisan experts at the United States Congressional Budget Office: $30 Billion
Amount Harper Government claims the sole source contract for F-35 Fighter Jets will cost (no peer review): $17.6 Billion
Number of G20 Summits whose “security” expenses could be covered by the difference in these two possible costs: 12.5
Number of affordable housing units that could be built for the cost of a single G20: 10,333
Number of days Harper Government has fought to ensure child soldier Omar Khadr has spent in Guantanamo Bay as of publication: 3072
Number of different departments that confirm receiving the directive to replace “Government of Canada” in federal communications with “Harper Government”: 4
Number of times Prime Minister Harper asked and received assent from Governor General to prorogue Parliament in order to avoid the will of MPs selected by the majority of Canadians: 2
Number of pieces of legislation that died in 2010 when Harper shutdown parliament to “recalibrate”: 36
Number of Facebook users who joined the page ‘Canadians Against the Prorogation of Parliament: 220,000
Amount Rights and Democracy spent on public relations and legal fees after President Remy Beauregard died of a heart attack the same evening as a fractious meeting where board of directors was taken over by Harper Government loyalists: $400,000
Number of Canadians who emailed Stephen Harper during a single week in July to voice their displeasure at the Government’s decision to end the long-form census: 234
Number of Canadians who emailed Stephen Harper during the same week in July to voice their pleasure at the Government’s decision to end the long-form census: 20
Number of complaints about the intrusiveness of the long-form census Industry Minister Tony Clement claims the government receives: “more and more complaints each round… I can’t quantify the exact number”
Number of years since Stephen Harper, Jack Layton and Gilles Duceppe signed a letter urging the Governor General to “respectfully point out” they had the option to form a coalition government if the Liberal government fell: 7
Number of months a committee of Liberal, Bloc and Conservative MPs has been reviewing the documents related to Afghan detainees that caused Harper to prorogue Parliament, sparking protests from coast-to-coast in 2010: 10
Number of documents the committee has released to the public: 0
Number of human beings Canada may have knowingly handed over to torture: Unknown
Number of times International Co-operation Minister Bev Oda acknowledged to a Parliamentary committee in December 2010 that she altered a memo to include the word “not”: 0
Number of times International Co-operation Minister Bev Oda admitted to Parliament in February 2011 that she had altered the same memo to include the word “not”: 1
Amount paid in severance paid to disgraced Harper-appointed Integrity Commissioner Christiane Ouimet who resigned after “allegations she bullied her staff and failed to protect whistleblowers”. $544,454
Percentage of complaints Ouimet’s office investigated during her three years as Commissioner: 3.5 percent
Number of years Canadian citizen Abousfian Abdelrazik spent living in the lobby of the Canadian Embassy in Sudan before an Ottawa judge ordered the Harper Government to allow him to return home. 1.1
Number of Quebecers Heritage Minister James Moore seriously pissed off when he tweeted that the Vancouver Canucks were “Canada’s team in the playoffs” while the Habs were still in the 2010 playoffs: Most
Percentage of gross revenues from sales guaranteed to Michele McPherson, 22-year-old fiancée of long-time Harper Advisor Bruce Carson, on First Nations water filtration contracts he lobbied the government for: 20 percent
Number of individual Conservative candidates Elections Canada alleges participated in the ‘in and out’ scam: 67
Value of crucial national advertising the ‘in and out’ scam allowed the Harper Conservatives to spend in the last days of the 2006 campaign that made Harper PM: $1,300,000
Canadians that died from Listeriosis as the Harper Government moved to relax safety standards at the Maple Leaf Foods facility in North York: 22
Number of cold cuts Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz joked that politically the Listeriosis crisis was akin to death by: 1000
Number of legs Defence Minister Peter Mackay accused Belinda Stronach of having by the statement “you already have her” in reference to the question “Where’s your dog?”: 4
Number of times a government has been found in contempt of Canada’s Parliament: 1
