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
Is it a nudge? A wink? Precisely what kind of sign is the government looking for?
Americans respect a prime minister who takes a strong position on issues of interest to Canada, but they're not going to respect a guy who insults them gratuitously.
The United States defends its sovereignty, the Canadian government will defend our sovereignty. ... It is the Canadian people we get our mandate from, not from the ambassador to the United States.
This party will not take its position based o-n public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based o-n focus groups. We will not take a stand based o-n phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of pubic opinion.
Our government will build a new and dynamic voice for federalism in Quebec.
Obviously, the first thing we have to have is the capacity to know who is in our waters. We obviously want and expect foreign countries to tell us when they're in our waters. They are currently not doing that.
I am waiting to hear somebody in the Prime Minister's Office put out some information that is contrary to what we're reading in the papers now,
How can we continue to prop up a government that is under criminal investigation?
The West has wanted in. The West is in now. Canada will work for all of us.
High-ranking Liberals cynically manipulated the sponsorship program to enrich their party and their friends, ... The Liberals are still in office; no Liberal is still in jail. Political accountability will have to rest with the voters.
This is the first government that couldn't control the flow of guns.
I've said for a long time that the Kyoto Protocol won't succeed in achieving its objectives and that this government, our Canadian government, can't achieve the objectives.
Anything is possible, isn't it... but people don't invest that amount of money on speculation about a government decision unless they have pretty good reason to believe it is going to occur.
Since most of these announcements aren't funded in any of the three budgets the Liberals tabled this year, why should anyone believe these promises,