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Redirect federal spending aimed at fulfilling the terms of the increasingly irrelevant Kyoto Protocol.

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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