Stephen Harper

Stephen Harper wanted to become a politician to bring about conservative policies and changes in Canada. He was drawn to politics as a means to promote his vision for the country and implement his beliefs and values.

Stephen Harper the Prime Minister of Canada and is a member of the Conservative Party. The Conservative Party is not the opposition, it is the government.

The phrase "Opposition party" can mean two things. First, it can mean any party in parliament other than the Prime Minister's party. That is, any party that opposes the Prime Minister.

Second, it can mean the largest of those opposition parties. If you are talking about only the largest opposition party, you can say "the Official Opposition".

Right now, there are three opposition parties. The Official Opposition (the largest opposition party) is the Liberal Party of Canada. The other two are the Bloc Quebecois and the New Democratic Party.

Stephen Harper is not the Governor of Canada. The Governor General of Canada is His Excellency the Right Honourable David Lloyd Johnston. He was named Canada's Governor General Designate on July 8, 2010. His commission was issued by the Queen on September 3, 2010, and he took office on October 1, 2010. The Governor General is appointed, not elected.

Stephen Harper is the Prime Minister of Canada (Head of Government). He was appointed by then governor general Michaëlle Jean on February 6, 2006 to chair the federal Cabinet following the resignation of his predecessor. This was prompted by Harper's party, the Conservative Party of Canada, winning the most seats in the House of Commons in the 2006 federal election.

Not everyone hates Stephen Harper. Almost 40% of voters supported him. Of course, 60% of voters did not support him. Nevertheless, he heads a majority government.

Stephen Harper first represented an Ontario constituency as a Member of Parliament for the Reform Party of Canada in 1993. Later when the Reform Party merged with some members of the national Progressive Conservatives to become the Canadian Alliance under Stockwell

Day's leadership, Harper was aligned with that party. When the remaining group of national progressive Conservatives finally decided to join the Canadian Alliance, the party name became The Conservative Party of Canada. Stephen Harper became its leader and remains so. He became the Prime Minister of Canada in early 2006.

He is a University of Calagary alumnus

This question is broad - in what specific field? He's the Prime Minister of Canada, who has made a name for himself as a principled, strong leader both in Canada and abroad. Before that he was the Chief Policy Officer of the Reform Party of Canada, and before that he was an economist.

He's a horrible Prime Minister.

He was held in contempt and lost the confidence of the house of commons due to lying about how Canada was going to post surpluses and have no deficit. Which, without even being an economists everyone knew he was lying. Ironically, he gave us the worst deficit in Canadian history! 60 Billion dollars in one year.

He also single handedly tried to destroy democracy in our country by removing the subsidies designated towards the political parties. Which would have destroyed the opposition and any other party in Canada.

And not only that with Canada-China trade agreement, he has not spoken about it to the people and has decided not to allow parliament to debate the agreement. No single Canadian has the right to vote on the issue and there is a huge uproar over it not going into some sort of debate.

He also was the only one IN THE WORLD to allow asbestos not to be banned. Though I think he finally came around to it, but the fact that he stood up and said that it is perfectly fine because we produce it made me sick.

He also signed onto UNDRIP and has not actually followed what UNDRIP stands for.

He also decided to shut down the Fresh Water Researchers (which is quite important to keeping our fresh water...fresh) to save two million dollars a year, but it is going to cost him 50 million dollars to shut it down.

PLUS his government is (or was, I'm not quite sure the investigation ended, there's been no talk about it) being investigated for election fraud.

His stance was for an open and accountable government. He has yet to do either one, he likes to keep things controlled and silent.

"Steal from the poor and give to the rich."

Since February 2006.

No, he's an evangelical Christian.

He dropped out of University of Toronto after 2 months.

He is no longer allowed to sing John Lennon songs in public due to a protest from Yoko Ono.

His father was a high level accountant for Imperial Oil, where harper worked as a mail room clerk before becoming a career politician.

In total, the Royal Canadian Air Force have 77 fighter aircraft in active service, plus 16 fighter training aircraft. The fighter aircraft are all McDonnell Douglas CF-18 Hornets, while the training aircraft are all BAE Systems Hawks.

Stephen Harper grew up in Toronto, Ontario.

He's the Prime Minister of Canada. Before that he was an economist.

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Presumably that means Mr Harper is no longer an economist.

A profession is defined as "a vocation requiring knowledge of some department of learning or science." Politics does not qualify as a profession. At best, it might qualify as an avocation. Therefore, Mr Harper is not a member of any profession whatsoever.

Before becoming Prime Minister in 2006, Stephen Harper was the Member of Parliament for Calgary Southwest since 2002, and the MP for Calgary West from 1993-1997. He was one of the Founding Members of the Reform Party, and became the leader of its successor, the Canadian Alliance in 2002. The Canadian Alliance merged with the Progressive Conservative Party in 2003, forming the Conservative Party of Canada. Harper was elected leader of the Conservative Party in 2004.

In his young life, Harper worked at Imperial Oil, first in the mail room, then on the company's computer systems.

Yes, he has two siblings, and he's the oldest.

He isn't. He is the only prime minister in history to ever be held in contempt of Parliament. He lowered corporate taxes and for the rich, spent tax payers money poorly (wasting taxpayers money expanding prisons as crime rates fall and unnecessarily on the most expensive fighter jets as our Arctic Rangers use guns from 1911, troops require other NATO powers to transport them and submarines sit in dry docks), represented Canada terribly on the world stage (Because of his policies Canada was voted off the UN security council, declared an impediment in climate change talks and he is personally disliked by most other world leaders, with the only, former, exception being George W. Bush), and increased government corruption has arisen amongst his party's cabinet ministers and MP's while they have been in power.

The University of Calgary

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No. Laureen is his current wife and his only marriage.

He ran in Calgary in 1988 as Steve Harper and lost the election by a landslide. He was elected in the Reform Party's right-wing splitting upset over the PC's in 1993. In 2004 in his first election as leader of the Conservative party he lost with his party only receiving 4 million out of 13.5 million votes.