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Stephen Joseph Harper (born April 30, 1959) is a Canadian politician who served as the 22nd prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015. He is to date the only prime minister to have come from the modern-day Conservative Party of Canada , serving as the party's first leader from 2004 to 2015.
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The premiership of Stephen Harper began on February 6, 2006, when the first Cabinet headed by Stephen Harper was sworn in by Governor General Michaelle Jean.Harper was invited to form the 28th Canadian Ministry and become Prime Minister of Canada following the 2006 federal election, where Harper led his Conservative Party to win a plurality of seats in the House of Commons of Canada, defeating ...
In the 2006 federal election in Canada, the Liberal Party of Canada used attack ads against Conservative Party of Canada leader Stephen Harper.The Liberals, trailing in polls during the last weeks of the campaign, resorted to strong and often questionable negative ads directed towards the Conservative party, by attempting to depict Harper as an extreme right-wing politician.
Stephen Harper intended to fund most of Canada's new infrastructure though Public-private partnerships. The city council of Saint John, New Brunswick was told by their local Conservative MP Rodney Weston that funding their new water treatment plant through a P3 was the only option. [ 135 ]
Stephen Harper, the former leader of the Canadian Alliance, was elected on the first (and only) ballot. Tony Clement , a former Ontario Progressive Conservative health minister, and Belinda Stronach , the former chief executive officer of Magna International , were the other candidates on the ballot.
The post Former NBA star Dwight Howard denies sexual assault lawsuit filed by Georgia man appeared first on TheGrio. Stephen Harper alleges that Howard and a man dressed as a woman and who used ...
The Harper government, with the support of veterans groups such as the Royal Canadian Legion, re-instituted a policy of lowering the national flag at military installations such as Department of National Defence headquarters only, drawing some criticism that the government was showing a lack of respect for the soldiers.