Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it.
Stephen HarperBut the Progressive Conservative is very definitely liberal Republican. These are people who are moderately conservative on economic matters, and in the past have been moderately liberal, even sometimes quite liberal on social policy matters.
Stephen HarperCanadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession, problems in mortgage markets, the problems in the banking sector, the problems in government finance in countries like Greece, none of those problems were in present Canada.
Stephen HarperRedirect federal spending aimed at fulfilling the terms of the increasingly irrelevant Kyoto Protocol.
Stephen Harper