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I don't know all the facts on Iraq, but I think we should work closely with the Americans.

Stephen Harper

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Stephen Harper
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 30
Economist
Pianist
Politician
Prime Minister Of Canada
City of Toronto
Stephen Joseph Harper
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Buying pollution credits is folly it doesn't help the environment. Instead of using tax dollars to buy credits overseas, we'll use them at home.
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I know economists will say well, we could run a small deficit but the problem is that once you cross that line as we see in the United States, nothing stops deficits from getting larger and larger and spiralling out of control.
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The government can only be brought down because it alienates several parties in the House.
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Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status.
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Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession, problems in mortgage markets, the problems in the banking sector, the problems in government finance in countries like Greece, none of those problems were in present Canada.
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As I constantly remind Canadians, there isnt really a Canadian economy anymore. It is a global economy.
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Redirect federal spending aimed at fulfilling the terms of the increasingly irrelevant Kyoto Protocol.
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Having hit a wall, the next logical step is not to bang our heads against it.
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It's the government's obligation to look really to the third parties to get the support to govern.
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We want to see oil and gas regulations on a continental basis given the integrated nature of this industry, with the current conditions in the oil and gas sector, this government will not consider unilateral regulation.
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My own views on abortion, I'm not on either pole of that and neither of the interest groups on either end of this issue would probably be comfortable with my views.
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But I'm very libertarian in the sense that I believe in small government and, as a general rule, I don't believe in imposing values upon people.
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