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
I think things are looking up, but you don't know until people actually go into the voting booth.
I'm not sure anything has changed .... Mr. Layton is not happy with the proposals he's had. He's not been happy with them for a while. And I'm not sure what his next move is, but it seems to me that he's still looking for leverage to get more out of the government rather than let the Canadian people have their say,
I'm really looking for a clear signal that in fact he wants to defeat the government,
Is it a nudge? A wink? Precisely what kind of sign is the government looking for?
When Paul Martin comes after us, as he will - when he comes after me, as he's already planning - take that as proof we are on the right track,
Why is the government not suing the Liberal party to recover the money that was lost or stolen?
What really needs to happen is this culture of waste and mismanagement and corruption that the Liberal Party practices must end,
Even the United States, an allied government, is currently making incursions into our territorial waters without even notifying us, let alone seeking permission.
The government will join, notwithstanding its failure to prepare, its neglect in co-operating with its allies, or its inability to contribute. In the end it will join out of the necessity created by a pattern of uncertainty and indecision. It will not join as a leader but unnoticed at the back of the parade.
You can't come to Toronto without talking about new Canadians. New Canadians are hardworking. They pay their taxes. They play by the rules.
We will improve Canadians' faith in our public institutions by making government more accountable and effective.
We will honor your trust, we will deliver on our commitments.
We will have to put much higher emphasis in exploiting the growing demand of China, India and others for our natural resource sectors - options that did not exists in the 1980s (when free trade was negotiated.)
We know that governing in a minority is not going to be easy. But we have our legislative and governmental priorities and we will work together with others to find shared goals and common ideas.