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It`s all part of the pattern. This is a story of scandal and corruption, investigations, refusals to take responsibility. If this government continues in office, this will continue.

Stephen Harper

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Stephen Harper
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 30
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Stephen Joseph Harper
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Our relationship with nature is more one of being than having. We are nature: we do not have nature.
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We've got to see a state where the Afghan government can handle its own day-to-day security.
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Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy.
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Redirect federal spending aimed at fulfilling the terms of the increasingly irrelevant Kyoto Protocol.
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If we are willing to be still and open enough to listen, wilderness itself will teach us.
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The treatment of children in Indian residential schools is a sad chapter in our history... Two primary objectives of the residential schools system were to remove and isolate children from the influence of their homes, families, traditions and cultures, and to assimilate them into the dominant culture.
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Our government has been in a surplus position up until this year. We should be able to recover to a surplus position shortly, as quickly as the economy recovers. So, we're able to do the kind of stimulus that you see in the United States without deteriorating our debt position in the long-term.
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If Ottawa giveth, then Ottawa can taketh away.
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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.
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