Stephen Harper Speaks

Posted August 30, 2008

"It's past time the feds scrapped the Canada Health Act." - Stephen Harper, in 1997, as Vice-President of the National Citizens Coalition

"For taxpayers, however, it's a rip-off. And it has nothing to do with gender. Both men and women taxpayers will pay additional money to both men and women in the civil service. That's why the federal government should scrap its ridiculous pay equity law." - Stephen Harper on pay equity, 1998

"Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... I find this is very scary stuff." - Stephen Harper in 1999

"You have to remember that west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from Eastern Canada; people who live in ghettos and are not integrated into Western Canadian society." - Stephen Harper in 2001

"Kyoto is essentially a socialist scheme to suck money out of wealth-producing nations." - Stephen Harper in 2002

Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it. - Stephen Harper to a conservative American lobby group, in 1997