Stephen Joseph Harper (born April 30, 1959) is a Canadian politician who served as the 22nd prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015. He is to date the only prime minister to have come from the modern-day Conservative Party of Canada, serving …

Jan 22, 2025 · Harper was elected to represent the Calgary West riding in the Canadian House of Commons in 1993 as a member of the Reform Party, which had been founded in the 1980s to express both a distinctive role for the western provinces in the Canadian federation and conservative views on social policy.

Jan 18, 2012 · Stephen Harper is Canada’s longest-serving Conservative prime minister since Sir John A. Macdonald. He helped found the Reform Party and served as head of the National Citizens Coalition and leader of the Canadian Alliance Party.

Oct 21, 2015 · Conservative Leader Stephen Harper addresses his supporters in Calgary after a Liberal majority government is elected.

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 …

Stephen Joseph Harper (born April 30, 1959) served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015. He was the first and only Prime Minister to come from the modern-day Conservative Party of Canada, which he led from 2004 to 2015.

Jan 24, 2019 · Prime Minister Stephen Harper first led his party to power 16 years ago, when a trip to the polls led to a reversal of fortune in Ottawa. The election of Jan. 23, 2006 saw the Conservatives win...

The Right Honourable Stephen Harper served as Canada’s 22nd Prime Minister from 2006 to 2015, the longest-serving Conservative Leader to hold this office since Canada’s founding Prime Minister in 1891.

Harper’s new party eventually eclipsed the old Progressive Conservatives, but in order to avoid splitting the right-wing vote he negotiated a union of the two in 2003, and became first leader of the new merged party, the Conservative Party of Canada.

May 29, 2018 · Stephen Harper (born 1959), an often-underestimated Canadian politician, became his country's first conservative prime minister in 13 years when he led his party to victory in January of 2006. Harper got into politics as part of a conservative revolt against Canada's traditional center-right party, then rethought his movement's strategy and ...