Stephen Harper
Stephen Harper
Stephen Joseph Harper PC MPis a Canadian politician and member of Parliament who served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Canada, from February 6, 2006 to November 4, 2015. He was the first prime minister to come from the modern Conservative Party of Canada, which was formed by a merger of the Progressive Conservative Party and the Canadian Alliance...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth30 April 1959
CityLeaside, Canada
CountryCanada
They could knock the GST off of the excise tax. They could knock the GST off of gas above a certain price level. These are the things we propose.
The U.S. defends its sovereignty. The Canadian government will defend our sovereignty.
The Liberals bought a Pyrrhic victory, one that will sow the seeds of its own destruction,
The Liberal party thinks public money is a party election fund,
This House has lost confidence in the government.
All indications I've had to this point is that Mr. Layton still will not support a motion to bring down the government,
And I think the real problem that we're facing already is that the government doesn't accept that it got a minority.
All too often we hear stories of veterans who are ignored or disrespected by government. What a shameful way to treat men and women who risked their lives to defend Canada. This shame will end with the election of a new government.
I do think that all economies need a sense of fiscal discipline especially over the midterm and if you are in the middle of a debt crisis you can't borrow your way out of a debt crisis. That's logically impossible.
I'm not trying to be diplomatic. I'm trying to be more nuanced and realistic. I think there has to be a serious examination of the shortcomings of the Euro structure. Euro central institutions, whether it be fiscal policy, monetary policy, financial regulation, are simply not as robust as they are in a currency that has a national government behind it.
The media is tremendously important for all governments that are able to communicate through the it. It doesn't mean there is a balance of editorial opinion that favors what you are doing or that the opposition doesn't have its voice, but you have to be able to effectively communicate your story through the media.
If you want to diminish the number of abortions, you've got to change hearts and not laws.
There is a dependence in the region that breeds a culture of defeatism,
We got into a recession because the global economy went into the recession and we're a big exporting nation.