“In terms of the unemployed, of which we have over a million-and-a-half, I don't feel particularly bad for many of these people.”

— Stephen Harper

Speaking in Montréal, 1997. Sourced from Rebel Youth magazine, Fall-Winter Edition 2006.
1990s

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