Stephen Harper's Government Reforms

Stephen Harper has been the Prime Minister of Canada since 2006. Since stepping into office he has continually changed the way that our society runs, and how we as Canadians live. He not only makes positive changes to our government but helps to keep all changes and laws that are set in place to run smoothly and effectively. The Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, constantly reforms his government through tax cutting, changing laws, and improving our way of life. In order for Harper to accomplish these tasks he has provided family tax cuts to provide more money to families with children, he created the violent crime act which will keep the streets clean and also improves our way of life with his accountability and reform of employment. In this

In order to protect citizens and keep criminals off the street the Tackling Violent Crime Act was created. This act included two new firearm offences and intensifying the sentencing for serious firearm offences. This act also includes monitoring high risk offenders, a new rule for the investigation of drunk driving and raising the sexual activity consent age to 16 from 14. These laws were put into action because Canadians should be entitled to live in a safe society and without those laws firearms, dangerous and high risk offenders, driving under the influence, and sexual predators will all continue threating the safety of Canadians. Another reason why Stephen Harper running a reforming government is very beneficial is that he is able to make quick decisions to change laws in order to keep safety among our country according to recent events that occur. After a just recent shooting in Ottawa by Parliamentary Hill Stephen Harper decided he would like to act fast on this situation and enhance the powers of Canada’s spy agency and police forces. Stephen Harper was quoted saying “In recent weeks, I have been saying that our laws and police powers need to be strengthened in the area of surveillance, detention and arrest,” […] “They need to be much strengthened. I assure members that work which is already under way will be expedited.” This shows that by him making

Harper has implemented his great leadership and positive changes to the government in many ways such as his accountability and reform of employment. When elected Prime Minister and handed the accountability for Canada, Harper began to change the way politics were done previously in order to make Canada the best place it can be. To help guarantee that politicians were not being influenced by large donations, he banned both corporations and unions from giving political contributions. Harper’s government has also reduced the amount of money that individuals are able to donate from $5,000 to $1,100 per year. This will help cut back on the influence that politicians will receive from donations. Also, Harper has recently taken action in order to make the Senate more responsible for us Canadians. The government appointed Canada’s first elected Senator, Bert Brown from Alberta, and every other new Senator that is appointed is committed to reforming the Senate. Another way in which Harper has improved the way of life for Canadians is with reform of employment. Over his 8 year tenure, Harper’s government has helped out businesses that are in need of employees and it is easy to hire temporary foreign workers. Foreign workers are now employed by 33,000 companies across Canada and not just in the agricultural area but also in the