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
Tonight friends, our great country has voted for change, and Canadians have asked our party to take the lead in delivering that change.
We were committed at the time of the convention, and through the last debate, to put a free vote to the next Parliament on this issue, ... It will be a genuinely free vote when I am prime minister. I will not whip the cabinet; cabinet can vote as they want.
I think Mr. Martin is making a mistake talking about issues no one wants to talks about ... and instead not telling people why they should vote for his party.
We're not going to try to force a vote unless we think we can win it.
I'm willing to face the voters any time. I'm confident that we'll do well,
If you want your taxes to go down, you have to vote for it. If you want a government that actually does something about crime, you have to vote for it. If you want to fix health care, you have to vote for it. If you want choice in child care, you have to vote for it. And the only way to get that is to vote for a new Conservative government.
If you want your taxes to go down, you have to vote for it.
I want the best people in my cabinet. And I want to broaden the base of our party beyond those who voted for it.
I don't think any federalist leader should be urging people to vote for the Bloc.
I don't think we can ever be sure we will have Mr. Layton's votes unless he is in on the motion itself. And to this point he's indicated no willingness to do that.
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.