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Profile: Stephen Harper, ex-prime minister of Canada

His measured campaign messages clearly hit home, and with the Conservatives' political rivals failing to challenge them in the polls, Mr Harper was able to secure the majority that had previously eluded him.

Under Mr Harper the party took 54% of the seats in parliament, securing a third consecutive term and transforming their minority government into a majority.

Mr Harper ran a tightly focused campaign concentrating largely on his government's record in managing the economy, which had emerged from a recession as one of the strongest among the G7 group of countries.

But four years later, it's the economy that proved his Achilles heel, with the country officially entering recession at the start of the election campaign.

He was under fire for his low spending, low taxes policies, and was at odds with his political opponents over the bombing campaign against Islamic State in Syria.

A lone gunman attack on the parliament building in Ottawa proved to be a pivotal moment. Mr Harper pushed through Bill C-51, which

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Biography

The Rt. Hon. Stephen J. Harper is Chairman and CEO of Harper & Associates, a global consulting and strategic advisory business founded in 2016. Mr. Harper is also Chairman and co-founder of Vision One, a value-oriented investment fund based in Miami, Florida. He serves as a Director of Colliers International Group Inc., Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc., and Recover Inc., and President of the Advisory Committee of Awz Ventures, a technology focused Canadian-Israeli venture capital firm. He is also the author of “Right Here, Right Now: Politics and Leadership in the Age of Disruption”, and a frequent speaker on geopolitical trends, populism, and business.

For nearly a decade Mr. Harper led Canada through the world’s most complex geopolitical, economic and security challenges as the country’s 22nd Prime Minister. He created the modern Conservative Party of Canada, won three successive national elections, and was the longest serving Conservative Prime Minister since Canada’s founding Prime Minister in 1891.

In 2004, Mr. Harper co-founded the modern Co

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The Right Honourable Stephen J. Harper PC, CC, D.Phil. (Hon.), FRCGS

“I believe very strongly that in this world you have to have values and you have to stand up for your interests and if you don’t do those things you’re not going to get anywhere.”

The Right Honourable Stephen J. Harper of Bragg Creek is an economist, politician and author who served as Canada’s 22nd prime minister from 2006 to 2015. He transformed the country’s political landscape by uniting the previously divided right into the modern Conservative Party of Canada. He went on to win three consecutive national elections, leading Canada through a decade of complex geopolitical, economic and security challenges. His leadership had a profound impact on the nation and Alberta.

Stephen Joseph Harper was born April 30, 1959, in Leaside, Ontario, to Joseph Harris and Margaret Frances (Johnston) Harper. Stephen is the eldest of three boys. He was the academic gold medallist in Richview Collegiate Institute’s graduating class of 1978. After a brief enrolment in the University of Toronto, he headed west to work wit