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I don't know if for sure in absolute terms if Jim Flaherty is the best Finance Minster in the world, but I am sure that he is the best Finance Minster per inch in the world.

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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We've got to see a state where the Afghan government can handle its own day-to-day security.
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You don't defend national sovereignty with flags, cheap election rhetoric, and advertising campaigns.
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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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After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question...
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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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Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took.
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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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I think the way to change it is to handle issues individually when it's essential to do so.
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We'll support the government on issues if it's essential to the country but our primary responsibility is not to prop up the government, our responsibility is to provide an opposition and an alternative government for Parliament and for Canadians.
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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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It's past time the feds scrapped the Canada Health Act.
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When Ralph Goodale tried to tax Income Trusts they showed us where they stood, they showed us their attitude towards raiding Seniors hard earned assets and a Conservative government will never allow either of these parties to get away with that.
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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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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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We're not going to scrap the budget and make up some totally new platform the day after the election. So it's certainly willingness to compromise but we're not going back on the fundamental things we're running on in this campaign.
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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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I don't know all the facts on Iraq, but I think we should work closely with the Americans.
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There is a Canadian culture that is in some ways unique to Canada, but I don't think Canadian culture coincides neatly with borders.
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I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion.
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We got into a recession because the global economy went into the recession and we're a big exporting nation.
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