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Stephen Joseph Harper, né le 30 avril 1959 à Toronto, est un homme d'État canadien. Il est Premier ministre du Canada du 6 février 2006 au 4 novembre 2015.

Il représente la circonscription de Calgary Heritage à la Chambre des communes de 2015 à 2016, après avoir représenté Calgary-Ouest de 1993 à 1997, puis Calgary-Sud-Ouest de 2002 à 2015. Membre fondateur du Parti réformiste, il quitte le Parlement temporairement pour diriger la Coalition nationale des citoyens, un groupe de pression conservateur qui milite en faveur d'une réduction des impôts et du rôle du gouvernement. Après la démission de Stockwell Day de son poste de chef du parti, en 2002, Harper est élu chef de l'Alliance canadienne. En 2003, il réussit à conclure un accord avec Peter MacKay, chef du Parti progressiste-conservateur, pour fusionner les deux partis. Le 20 mars 2004, Harper est élu chef du nouveau Parti conservateur et il le reste jusqu'au 19 octobre 2015.

Le 23 janvier 2006, il remporte les élections fédérales face au Premier ministre sortant Paul Martin. Il est assermenté avec son gouvernement le 6 février 2006, formant un gouvernement minoritaire et mettant un terme à plus de douze ans de gouvernement du Parti libéral. Le 14 octobre 2008, il est réélu comme Premier ministre pour un deuxième mandat, dans un gouvernement minoritaire renforcé. Le 27 novembre 2008, son gouvernement dépose un énoncé économique jugé inacceptable par les partis d'opposition, qui s'unissent quelques jours plus tard afin de défaire le gouvernement. Le 5 décembre 2008, le Premier ministre demande à la gouverneure générale Michaëlle Jean de proroger la session parlementaire afin d'éviter un vote de confiance prévu par les partis d'opposition. Il est finalement renversé par une motion de censure pour « outrage au Parlement » en mars 2011. À la suite d'élections fédérales anticipées en 2011, il obtient la majorité absolue et est réélu pour un mandat de quatre ans.

Bien que Harper soit réélu lors des élections fédérales de 2015, les conservateurs sont battus par le Parti libéral. Son chef Justin Trudeau accède ainsi au poste de Premier ministre. Le 25 mai 2016, Stephen Harper fait savoir qu'il quitte la vie politique et démissionnera de son mandat de député avant la reprise des travaux parlementaires ; sa démission est effective le 26 août 2016. Wikipedia  

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“Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack o­n our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society…It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.”

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BC Report Newsmagazine, January 11, 1999.
1990s

“I think people should elect a cat person. If you elect a dog person, you elect someone who wants to be loved. If you elect a cat person, you elect someone who wants to serve.”

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Interview with Kevin Newman, Global National April 5th, 2006.
2006

“In terms of the unemployed… don't feel particularly bad for many of these people. They don't feel bad about it themselves, as long as they're receiving generous social assistance and unemployment insurance.”

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

“There is an important caveat to its liberal social values. For historic reasons that I won't get into, the Liberal party gets the votes of most Catholics in the country, including many practising Catholics.”

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

“Now I know it’s unfashionable to refer to colonialism in anything other than negative terms. And certainly, no part of the world is unscarred by the excesses of empires. But in the Canadian context, the actions of the British Empire were largely benign and occasionally brilliant…This genius for governance shown by the mother country at the time no doubt explains in part why Canada’s path to independence was so long, patient and peaceful.”

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Address to the Canada-UK Chamber of Commerce July 14, 2006 http://pm.gc.ca/eng/media.asp?category=2&id=1247 : On Canada
2006

“In fact, before the Reform Party really became a force in the late '80s, early '90s, the leadership of the Conservative party was running the largest deficits in Canadian history.”

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

“Canada is a vast and empty country.”

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2006 Leaders' Debate, December 15, 2005.
2005

“While [Montreal] it is a French-speaking city – largely – it has an enormous English-speaking minority and a large number of what are called ethnics: they who are largely immigrant communities, but who politically and culturally tend to identify with the English community.”

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

“I think there is a dangerous rise in defeatist sentiment in this country. I have said that repeatedly, and I mean it and I believe it.”

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Ottawa Citizen, June 3, 2002: About Canada
2002

“But the Progressive Conservative is very definitely liberal Republican. These are people who are moderately conservative on economic matters, and in the past have been moderately liberal, even sometimes quite liberal on social policy matters.”

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

“[The Reform Party] also has some Buchananist tendencies. I know there are probably many admirers of Mr. Buchanan here, but I mean that in the sense that there are some anti-market elements in the Reform Party.”

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

“In the last Parliament, [the Liberal Party] enacted comprehensive gun control…”

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

“Out security agencies work with each other and with others around the globe to track people who are threats to Canada and to watch threats that may evolve. I think though, this is not a time to commit sociology, if I can use an expression. It’s time to treat this- these things are serious threats. Global terrorist attacks, people who have agendas of violence—deep and abiding threats to all the values that our society stands for.”

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In response to an alleged plot to attack a VIA Rail passenger train, Toronto Star, April 25, 2013, http://www.thestar.com/news/2013/04/25/stephen_harper_terror_threats_are_no_time_for_apos_sociology_apos_.html
2013

“a light of freedom and democracy in what is otherwise a region of darkness
will always have Canada as a friend”

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describing Israel in December 2013 ("last month") according to 18 January 2014 article from Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/why-is-stephen-harper-one-of-israels-staunchest-supporters/
2013

“Mr. Speaker, I am sure the picture of the hon. member of the NDP [Svend Robinson] is posted in much more wonderful places than just police stations.”

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Hansard, October 23, 2002.
2002

“Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status.”

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National Post, Dec. 8 2000 p. A18.
2000

“If you look at the surviving PC support, it's very much concentrated in Atlantic Canada, in the provinces to the east of Quebec. These are very much equivalent to the United States border states. They're weak economically. They have very grim prospects if Quebec separates. These people want a solution at almost any cost.”

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

“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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The Report newsmagazine, January 22, 2001.
2001

“There is a continental culture. 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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Report Newsmagazine January 7, 2002.
2002

“Let me say a little bit about the Reform party because I want you to be very clear on what the Reform party is and is not… The Reform party is very much a leader-driven party.”

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

“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”

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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

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

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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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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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."”

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National Post, December 8, 2000.
2000

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

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The Star, January 30, 2007.
2007

“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.”

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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

“[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.”

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

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