Stephen Harper: Trending quotes (page 2)

“we do not offer them a better health-care plan than the ordinary Canadian can receive. I think that’s something that new and old stock Canadians can agree with”

Stephen Harper

17 September 2015 according to 18 September 2015 article by Peter Edwards mentioning "the phrase “old stock Canadians” used by Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Thursday’s leadership debate." https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/09/18/old-stock-canadians-phrase-chills-prof-ignites-twitter.html
2015

Health , Thinking

“The Reform party is much closer to what you would call conservative Republican.”

Stephen Harper

1990s, Speech to the Council for National Policy (1997)

“We're very concerned about CRTC's decision on usage-based billing and its impact on consumers. I've asked for a review of the decision.”

Stephen Harper

From post made on http://www.facebook.com/#!/pmharper on 02/01/2011.
2011

Decision

“The predecessor of the Reform party, the Social Credit party, was very much like this. Believing in funny money and control of banking, and a whole bunch of fairly non-conservative economic things.”

Stephen Harper

1990s, Speech to the Council for National Policy (1997)

Money

“The party system that is developing here in Canada is a party system that replicates the antebellum period, the pre-Civil War period of the United States… [T]he dynamics, the political and partisan dynamics of this, are remarkably similar.”

Stephen Harper

1990s, Speech to the Council for National Policy (1997)

War

“The Reform party is very much a modern manifestation of the Republican movement in Western Canada; the U. S. Republicans started in the western United States.”

Stephen Harper

1990s, Speech to the Council for National Policy (1997)

“If Ottawa giveth, then Ottawa can taketh away… This is one more reason why Westerners, but Albertans in particular, need to think hard about their future in this country. After sober reflection, Albertans should decide that it is time to seek a new relationship with Canada. …Having hit a wall, the next logical step is not to bang our heads against it. It is to take the bricks and begin building another home – a stronger and much more autonomous Alberta. It is time to look at Quebec and to learn. What Albertans should take from this example is to become "maitres chez nous."”

Stephen Harper

National Post, December 8, 2000.
2000

Home , Thinking , Learning , Time

“Kyoto is essentially a socialist scheme to suck money out of wealth-producing nations.”

Stephen Harper

The Star, January 30, 2007.
2007

Money , Wealth

“Israel is the Middle East’s only legitimate democracy, surrounded by cadres, warlords and villains that do not respect democracy or human rights. These bellicose nations jealously regard Israel, envying its success, stability, and might. Israel faces an impossible calculus between defending itself and facing angry outcries or risking its own destruction.”

Stephen Harper

Stephen Harper, as quoted in " We Must Support Democracy in the Middle East http://www.thebarrieexaminer.com/2014/01/31/we-must-support-democracy-in-the-middle-east" (31 January 2014), The Barrie Examiner.
2014

Democracy , Success , Envy

“[W]e have a Supreme Court, like yours, which, since we put a charter of rights in our constitution in 1982, is becoming increasingly arbitrary and important. It is also appointed by the Prime Minister. Unlike your Supreme Court, we have no ratification process.”

Stephen Harper

1990s, Speech to the Council for National Policy (1997)

“I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome. …Atlantic Canada's culture of defeat will be hard to overcome as long as Atlantic Canada is actually physically trailing the rest of the country.”

Stephen Harper

New Brunswick Telegraph Journal, May 29, 2002.
2002

Thinking , Country

“These proposals included cries for billions of new money for social assistance in the name of “child poverty” and for more business subsidies in the name of “cultural identity. In both cases I was sought out as a rare public figure to oppose such projects.””

Stephen Harper

The Bulldog, National Citizens Coalition, February 1997.
1990s

Money , Business

“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.”

Stephen Harper

39th Canadian General Election 2006 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9mibZYpVPY - On October 31, 2006, barely ten months into the Conservative run minority Government of Canada, Canadian (Conservative) federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced a new 34% tax on income trust distributions.
2006

“I think I have been perfectly clear in saying that I hope Canadians do elect a majority government. I think this cycle of election after election, minority after minority is beginning to put some of the country's interests in serious jeopardy.”

Stephen Harper

2011 English Language Leaders' Debate, April 12, 2011, http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20110413/main-election-110413/20110413?s_name=election2011.
2011

Hope , Thinking , Country

“The Bloc Québécois is equivalent to your Southern secessionists, Southern Democrats, states rights activists. The Bloc Québécois, its 44 seats, come entirely from the province of Quebec. But even more strikingly, they come from ridings, or election districts, almost entirely populated by the descendants of the original European French settlers.”

Stephen Harper

1990s, Speech to the Council for National Policy (1997)

“This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based on focus groups. We will not take a stand based on phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of public opinion… In my judgment Canada will eventually join with the allied coalition if war on Iraq comes to pass. The government will join, notwithstanding its failure to prepare, its neglect in co-operating with its allies, or its inability to contribute. In the end it will join out of the necessity created by a pattern of uncertainty and indecision. It will not join as a leader but unnoticed at the back of the parade.”

Stephen Harper

Hansard, January 29, 2003: On the Iraq war.
2003

War , Failure , Indecision

“We support the war effort and believe we should be supporting our troops and our allies and be there with them doing everything necessary to win”

Stephen Harper

Montreal Gazette, April 2, 2003: On the Iraq war.
2003

War , Support , Effort

“The Liberal party is very much your northern Democrat, or mainstream Democratic party, a party that is less concessionary to the secessionists than the PCs, but still somewhat concessionary. And they still occupy the mainstream of public opinion in Ontario, which is the big and powerful province, politically and economically, alongside Quebec.”

Stephen Harper

1990s, Speech to the Council for National Policy (1997)

“Corruption is not a Canadian value!”

Stephen Harper

In response to former Prime Minister Paul Martin suggesting that Liberal Party values are Canadian values on April 10th, 2005. CTV News http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1113091097636_23/
2005

“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.”

Stephen Harper

Apology to Residential School victims, Parliament, June, 2008.: On Canada
2008

Children , Sadness , School , Family