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British PM David Cameron addresses Canadian Parliament
Harper sets priorities for G20 summit in Toronto
Prime Minister Stephen Harper delivered an anti-protectionist message to top officials representing the leaders of the G20 as he presented five priorities for their upcoming meeting in Toronto.
Stephen Harper’s ‘enlightened sovereignty’ and humanitarian agenda
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper urged nations to practice “enlightened sovereignty” in his keynote speech to the 2010 Wold Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Notions rooted in a narrow view of sovereignty and national self interest must be reconsidered. We cannot do business as though for one to have more, another must have less. That is not true, it is not just, and it cannot be the path we take.
Our ambition … must be a shared belief that the rising tide of recovery must lift all boats, not just some. This is the exercise of soverignty at its most enlightened.
- Stephen Harper
Related links:
- Stephen Harpers article in the Toronto Star: G8 agenda: Focus on human welfare
- Full video: Stephen Harper’s keynote address at the 2010 World Economic Forum
Ignatieff sides with China in diplomatic row
Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff took an unusual stance in support of China’s diplomatic rebuke of Stephen Harper made during his first visit to Beijing.
Harper urges Obama for ‘Buy American’ exemption
September 16 and 17, 2009 - Stephen Harper delivers an anti-protectionist message at meetings with President Obama in Washington and business leaders in New York.
We know that a dynamic market economy does require governance. Now we’re not going to create a world government, but we do have to have the countries of the world come together and look at global problems together, and look at the global economy as a system.
We have to start to look at things … from a more enlightened view of our national interest that understands that if we don’t think globally, and think about global solutions, if we all simply work on national solutions, we are going to continue to have these kinds of problems.
- Stephen Harper
“Mr. Harper, your time is up”
Michael Ignatieff says the Liberal Party no longer has confidence in the Conservative government, and they will work to trigger an election at their earliest opportunity.
Liberals say they will not negotiate, and there is nothing Harper can do to change their minds.
The game is up for this Conservative government … Mr. Harper, your time is up. We cannot support this government any further.
- Michael Ignatieff
Related videos:
- The Ignatieff Ultimatum (June 15, 2009)
- Tories and Grits cooperate on EI Reform (June 17, 2009)
Harper’s optimistic economic outlook
Stephen Harper predicts Canada will emerge from the global recession faster than other countries, and stronger than before.
Canada was the last advanced country to fall into this recession, we will make sure its effects here are the least severe, and we will come out of this faster than anyone, and stronger than ever.
- Prime Minister Stephen Harper
Barack Obama visits Canada
President Obama and Prime Minister Harper answer questions from the media during Obama’s first foreign visit to Ottawa.
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Harper, Bush and Calderon discuss the SPP, the Northwest Passage, Afghanistan and conspiracies
August 21, 2007 – President George W. Bush, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and Mexican President Felipe Calderon held a press conference to end this year’s Security and Prosperity Partnership meeting. The leaders answered questions about the SPP, conspiracy theories, Afghanistan, Canadian Arctic sovereignty and the Northwest Passage.
Harper, Bush, Calderon take questions
The SPP summit was held amid growing suspicions of a secret agenda, and accusations that police tried to incite violence by posing as protesters.
Union leader stops police provocateurs
Anti-globalization activists claim the SPP and other supra-national agreements threaten the sovereignty of Canada and other member states.
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