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What we clearly need is experimentation with market reforms and private delivery options [in health care].

Stephen Harper

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Stephen Harper
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 30
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Prime Minister Of Canada
City of Toronto
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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