Canadians evidently are smarter than Americans. And Canadians don't have the gun culture which causes most normally intelligent people to vote for politicians they wouldn't invite into their house as long as they keep any gun restriction legislation out of US laws.
Harper cut funding to climate and environmental scientists and put a gag order on everyone involved.
Canadians finally had enough and kicked his party so far to the curb in the last election that even garbage collection refused to pick them up.