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
The continued increase in many crime indicators and the fact that the overall crime rate has not seen a marked decrease while the Liberals have been in power is a clear indication that the Liberal approach to combating crime, as on so many other issues, has failed.
Canada is big enough to make a difference but not big enough to threaten anybody. And that is a huge asset if it's properly used.
It's the government's obligation to look really to the third parties to get the support to govern.
The government can only be brought down because it alienates several parties in the House.
As I constantly remind Canadians, there isnt really a Canadian economy anymore. It is a global economy.
I will strive to make this not the highest-spending country in the world, but instead the lowest taxing o-ne.
I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome.
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.
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.
We came together as a party and now we will govern for all Canadians.
We're going to create a distinct organization through legislation.
The prime minister called me today to assure me that the new Governor General and her husband are federalists,
The prime minister intends to act just like (his predecessor) Jean Chretien,
The prime minister told the House in response that he had 'met the families and had long discussions.' The families told us afterwards that no such discussions took place,