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The government can only be brought down because it alienates several parties in the House.

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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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Whether Canada ends up as o­ne national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion...
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The world is now unipolar and contains o-nly o-ne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower.
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It's past time the feds scrapped the Canada Health Act.
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I don't know all the facts on Iraq, but I think we should work closely with the Americans.
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I think the way to change it is to handle issues individually when it's essential to do so.
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You don't defend national sovereignty with flags, cheap election rhetoric, and advertising campaigns.
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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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I believe very strongly that in this world you have to have values and you have to stand up for your interests and if you don't do those things you're not going to get anywhere.
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I think first and foremost everybody should understand that Canadians are strongly committed to the system of universal health insurance, to the principle that your ability to pay does not determine your access to critical medical service.
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There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept.
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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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If we are willing to be still and open enough to listen, wilderness itself will teach us.
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Withdraw from the Canada Pension Plan... Collect our own revenue from personal income tax... Resume provincial responsibility for health-care policy. If Ottawa objects to provincial policy, fight in the courts... [E]ach province should raise its own revenue for health... It is imperative to take the initiative, to build firewalls around Alberta.
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If you want to diminish the number of abortions, you've got to change hearts and not laws.
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A transition is taking place in Egypt. In my judgement, there is no going back. I think the old expression, They're not going to put the toothpaste back in the tube on this one.
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You've got to remember that west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from eastern Canada: people who live in ghettoes and who are not integrated into western Canadian society.
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Everybody makes money when times are good. It's when times are not so good that the groundwork is laid for the next generation.
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