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LINK: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/05/23/305012/pmharpermustresign-goes-viral-on-twitter/ #PMHarperMustResign" is the message countless Canadian Twitter users have been projecting this week. The Hashtag has proliferated across the twitter landscape, at one point trending as the most popular Hashtag among Canadian twitter users. Critics say that with the failure of the mainstream media in Canada to live up to its responsibility to adequately expose the blunders of the government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, that working class Canadians are forced to turn to alternative media such as twitter in order to express their anger at what they see as the Harper regime's flagrant violations of human rights and of elementary democratic principles. People tweeted "#PMHarperMustResign" for different reasons. The main stimuli however appears to have been the admission by the Prime Minister's, now former, Chief of Staff Nigel Wright, that he cut a cheque for $90,000 to re-pay the fraudulent expense claims of a Conservative senator, impropriety which many Canadians feel Stephen Harper himself would have undoubtedly known about. Apart from drawing attention to the ruling Conservative Party's election fraud, abuse of aboriginal peoples and senate expense scandals, Twitter users condemned the Harper government for its one-sided support for Israel. One twitter user slammed the Prime Minister: "For putting the interests of Israel before those of Canada". Another critical tweet accused Harper of "showing total disregard to Palestinian's rights and freedoms and supporting Israel's Human rights abuses".