Category:Stephen Harper: Difference between revisions

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| name = Stephen Harper

| image = StephenHarper.jpg

| image_size = 200px

| birth_name = Stephen Joseph Harper

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1959|04|30}}<!-- Some sources say April 20, but parliament website biography says April 30 [http://pm.gc.ca/eng/pm.asp?featureId=7&pageId=27] -->

| birth_place = [[:Category:Toronto|Toronto]], [[:Category:Ontario|Ontario]], Canada

}}

In 1997, Harper delivered a controversial speech on [[Wikipedia:Canadian identity|Canadian identity]] to the [[:Category:Council for National Policy|Council for National Policy]], a conservative American [[Wikipedia:think tank|think tank]]. He made comments such as "Canada is a Northern European [[Wikipedia:welfare state|welfare state]] in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it", "if you're like all Americans, you know almost nothing except for your own country. Which makes you probably knowledgeable about one more country than most Canadians", and "the [[Wikipedia:New Democratic Party|NDP]] [New Democratic Party] is kind of proof that the Devil lives and interferes in the affairs of men."<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20051213/elxn_harper_speech_text_051214/20051214/ | title = Full text of Stephen Harper's 1997 speech | publisher = CTV.ca | date = December 14, 2005 | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20060228031756/http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20051213/elxn_harper_speech_text_051214/20051214/ | archivedate = December 13, 2005}}</ref> These statements were made public and criticized during the [[Wikipedia:Canadian federal election, 2006|2006 election]]. Harper argued that the speech was intended as humour, and not as serious analysis.<ref>Susan Riley, "Harper's suspect evolution", December 16, 2005, pg. A18</ref>

==Notes==

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==External links==

*[https://canadians.org/fr/node/3820 Are you Willing to Die for Public Health Care; Harper is Willing to Bet you Aren't], May 20th, 2011, The Council of Canadians.

*[https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Stephen_Harper Stephen Harper], RationalWiki.

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