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  1. Stephen Joseph Harper PC CC AOE (born April 30, 1959) is a Canadian politician who served as the 22nd prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015. He was the first, and to date, only prime minister to come from the modern-day Conservative Party of Canada, serving as the party's first leader from 2004 to 2015.

  2. Sep 28, 2024 · Stephen Harper (born April 30, 1959, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian politician who served as prime minister of Canada (200615). Early life and start of political career. Harper was born in eastern Canada, where he spent his childhood.

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  3. Jan 18, 2012 · Stephen Harper is Canadas longest-serving Conservative prime minister since Sir John A. Macdonald. He helped found the Reform Party and served as head of the National Citizens Coalition and leader of the Canadian Alliance Party .

  4. Stephen Joseph Harper is a Canadian entrepreneur, economist, retired politician, and former Prime Minister of the country. The 22nd person to hold the office, he is the longest-serving Conservative Prime Minister of Canada since Sir John A. Macdonald.

  5. Oct 21, 2015 · After nine years and eight months in office, Stephen Harper finally turned off too many voters. Soon, he'll be hurling his political obituaries across the room.

  6. As the host leader of the 2010 G-20 summit in Toronto, and as an economist by training, Prime Minister Harper helped shape financial reform frameworks, implemented a sustainable approach to fiscal stimulus, and led the call for open markets and pragmatic, growth-oriented economic policy.

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  8. Jun 21, 2005 · Even as the Liberals slog through the muck, Canadians still don't seem ready to leap to the Tory alternative. Harper has long been quicker to reject Canada's ruling elite than the average voter, at least since he swung from the Tories to Reform in the mid-1980s.