Quotes About Stephen Harper

As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.

But I've been very clear in this campaign - I don't believe the party should have a position on abortion.

The fact is, no modern president, Democrat or Republican, has shown the level of contempt for taking questions from the media that Stephen Harper has demonstrated.

We got into a recession because the global economy went into the recession and we're a big exporting nation.

Since taking office, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party have transformed the Temporary Foreign Worker Program - which was originally designed to bring in temporary workers on a limited basis when no Canadian could be found - into one that has brought in a large pool of vulnerable workers.

There's a lot I'd like to be able to talk about with relation to Stephen Harper, particularly why is he afraid to debate in English?

I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion.

Stephen] Harper had said he would use all legal means, and what [John] Baird suggested was an option the prome minister was considering. If the governor general had refused his request, he could have replaced her with a more compliant one, making the case to the Queen that the people of Canada were opposed in great numbers to a coalition replacing his government.

Some people have come to admire Stephen Harper's style because he's standing at the top of the pyramid - that's not leadership to me.

Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy.

The damage that Stephen Harper has managed to inflict on so many aspects of Canadian democracy in just a few short years is frightening. That we have failed to stop it from happening, even more