Stephen Harper

Paul Well’s book The Longer I’m Prime Minster shows that while Stephen Harper was an effective political leader in the beginning of his political career towards the latter part of his career Harper’s leadership began to falter. Harper was not a popular or likeable leader, but nevertheless during his time as leader of the Conservative Party and eventually when he was prime minister of Canada for ten years he displayed strong leadership skills. While he was prime minster Harper’s leadership was evident

With his announcement on August 2, 2015 Prime Minister Stephen Harper set in motion a 78-day election campaign, one of the longest and quite possibly the most expensive in Canadian history (Maloney, 2015). The structural constraints posed by the first-past-the-post electoral system, and the institutional constraints of the parliamentary system and campaign spending legislation were all potentially beneficial to Harper and the Conservative Party, but his underestimation of strategic voting and the

in Canada as a Problem Population In August of 2014, Tina Fontaine, a 15-year-old from the Sagkeeng First Nation in Winnipeg, was murdered. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s response was not to regard it as a sociological phenomenon but as a crime against an individual that should be investigated (Canadian Press, 2014). Harper is virtually alone in this. Those demanding an inquiry and the treatment of this singular murder as part of the larger concern of

constructed, and shaped our country. Canada has shaped as a nation politically, economically and socially through many consequences we have faced and many moments we have celebrated. Events such as the women's suffrage, Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope, and Stephen Harper apologizing to aboriginal people regarding what happened with the Residential School System have had a lasting impact on our country. Their significance to Canadian history is evident through the impact they have had on many of our citizens. They

In the book ”Amusing ourselves to death” Neil Postman is making an argument about the fact that humans could amuse themselves to death in their lives.Even if when we think of death we think at something terrible,in his book this particular term is asociated with ”amusament” which is a quite unusual asociation of terms.At the beggining of the book the author is making a paralel between Orwell and Huxley.What is quite known about these two is the fact that their ideas were different and the book ”Amusing

under the guidelines of the TPP in foreign policy. The election of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of the Liberal Party of Canada on October 14th, 2015 defined a political shift in the power of the Conservative Party under Stephen Harper in foreign affairs. In contrast to the Harper Administration, PM Trudeau seeks to implement a more efficient plan for military intervention on a

CIVICS PORTFOLIO ESSAY DUE: JUNE 6TH 2011 Teacher: Mr. Griem Should the Canadian Senate be left alone, reformed or abolished? By: Shakir M. Lakhani SECTION 4 Final Civics Essay June 6th, 2011 Shakir M. Lakhani Topic: Senate Reform Do you feel your government is fair? Does it manage the issues properly, with careful thought, and an open, objective mind? Is it effective? Do you feel that the Senate is a “sober chamber of second thought?” Do you feel that the best interests

longer has the reputation as a peacekeeper due to its lack of contribution. Along with Canada’s lack of contribution, Canada’s political figures do not consider Canada a peacekeeper. The previous Prime Minister Stephen Harper had his own opinion of Canada and peacekeeping. Stephen Harper says “(Canada) out of the peacekeeping business”. The fact that the Prime Minister explicitly stated that Canada has no relevance to peacekeeping is mind boggling considering how relevant Canada used to be. When

Despite Stephen Harper having been a former Prime Minister of Canada, he nevertheless remains a notable example of justice obstruction through means of political influence. While the federal government admittedly holds a dark history of losses towards major cases

Introduction In October 2016, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau named Nova Scotia’s Wanda Thomas Bernard as one of Canada’s nine non-partisan senators (Williams, 2016). According to Semansky (2016), Dr. Bernard, “who serves as the university’s special advisor, diversity and inclusiveness, [is] the first African Nova Scotian woman to serve in the Senate Chamber” (para. 2). In response to the news, Bernard has stated that “equity for all is [her] primary goal in life. To be able to enter the Senate