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- He lost the election to the fresh-faced, energetic Justin Trudeau, and resigned as Conservative leader. Ten months later, he quit his seat in Calgary, signalling the end of his decades-long association with politics, to focus on business interests.
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Oct 20, 2015 · Stephen Harper is out, here's who might replace him: Chris Hall; LISTEN | Stephen Harper changed Canada in irreversible ways; He brought taxes down as he promised.
- Analysis After Stephen Harper, Who Will Lead The Conservatives
Stephen Harper is leaving as Conservative leader after...
- Analysis After Stephen Harper, Who Will Lead The Conservatives
In 2003, Harper negotiated the merger of the Canadian Alliance with the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to form the Conservative Party of Canada and was elected as the party's first leader in March 2004.
- Early Years and Personal Life
- Reform Party
- National Citizens Coalition (NCC) and Canadian Alliance
- Uniting The Right
- First Minority Government, 2006–08
- Second Minority Government, 2008–11
- Majority Government, 2011–15
- 2015 Election
- Accomplishments
- Criticisms
Stephen Harper grew up in the Toronto neighbourhood of Leaside and the suburb of Etobicoke. He is the oldest of three sons of Margaret and Joe Harper, an accountant. Stephen attended Richview Collegiate Institute. He was a member of the school’s Liberal club and competed on Reach for the Top. After graduating in 1978, he enrolled at the University ...
Although he was initially a Liberal supporter, Harper came to oppose Liberal actions and policies. In 1981, he went to work for Jim Hawkes, a Progressive Conservative (PC) Member of Parliament (MP) from Calgary. After Prime Minister Brian Mulroney’s victory in 1984, Harper spent a year working for Hawkes in Ottawa. However, he became disillusioned ...
One of Harper’s biggest concerns at the NCC was the federal government’s perceived lack of respect for the wealthy, oil-producing province of Alberta. His views were shared, and shaped, by a group of conservative academics from the University of Calgary. They were angry at federal intrusion in areas of provincial responsibility. (See also Distribut...
Since 1993, the Liberals had won a series of majority governments. This was due in part to the divided political right — the Alliance and the tattered remnants of the Progressive Conservative (PC) Party. As Alliance leader, Harper set out to mend fences. In 2003, he convinced PC leader Peter MacKay to form a united Conservative Party. Harper became...
With Paul Martin’s Liberal government under siege from the sponsorship scandal, and the unified political right supporting him, Harper won the federal election on 23 January 2006. He became the first westerner to be elected prime minister since Joe Clark in 1979. Harper secured 36.3 per cent of the popular vote and 124 of 308 seats — far short of a...
Harper ran two balanced budgets and a small deficit his first three years in office. This helped him establish a reputation as a sound economic manager. After the worldwide financial crisis in 2008 sparked a global recession, he called an early election. This circumvented Parliament’s 2007 law that established fixed election dates. Harper argued th...
On 25 March 2011, Parliament voted 156 to 145 to express non-confidence in the Harper government and cite it for contempt of Parliament for refusing to disclose information about the cost of its law-and-order agenda, corporate tax cuts and purchase of fighter jets. The contempt charge was the first levied against a federal government. But in the en...
After calling a long, 11-week election campaign, Harper immediately issued several tax breaks. He also sought to focus attention on his economic record and experience in government. However, the early weeks of the campaign were filled with news from the ongoing fraud trial of Senator Mike Duffy. It focused on whether Harper knew of a $90,172 cheque...
On economic issues, Harper and then-finance minister Jim Flaherty won wide praise for their actions to help Canada through the global recession that began in 2008. He expanded free trade with a variety of new partners, including an agreement with South Korea. He also drafted trade deals with the European Union and the Pacific Rim. Domestically, he ...
Canada’s resource-based economy recovered following the 2008 crisis. However, it suffered again in late 2014 and 2015 due to a worldwide decline in oil and commodity prices. This resulted in job losses in the West, particularly Alberta, and a severe drop in the Canadian dollar. This led to criticism that Harper’s focus on resource extraction had pu...
Aug 15, 2024 · Stephen Harper (born April 30, 1959, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian politician who served as prime minister of Canada (2006–15). Early life and start of political career. Harper was born in eastern Canada, where he spent his childhood.
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Aug 26, 2016 · After three election victories and 10 years leading the country, former Prime Minister Stephen Harper has left Canadian politics, upon which he left such an indelible mark. Born in Toronto ...
May 26, 2016 · As Stephen Harper officially began his exit from political life with a farewell speech to the Conservative Policy Convention in Vancouver, Maclean’s asked several former colleagues and advisors...
Oct 9, 2008 · Between dawn and dusk in a single day, Stephen Harper had reversed a half-decade's rhetoric on Canada's most important foreign-policy commitment; folded his tents on a central tactical position for this campaign; and given Jewish and Indian voters in Canada's largest city reason to notice him.
