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...ELECTED. STEPHEN HARPER, 46, leader of the Conservative Party of Canada; as the nation's 22nd Prime Minister, ending the 13-year rule of the Liberal Party; in Ottawa. Harper moderated his reputation as a humorless right-winger, joking on the campaign trail about his lack of charisma, and was aided by voter discontent over incumbent Paul Martin's scandal-ridden party. Harper's government is expected to improve relations with the U.S., but will need help from the political opposition to pass legislation because the Conservatives failed to win a House of Commons majority...
ELECTED. STEPHEN HARPER, 46, economist and leader of the Conservative Party of Canada; as the nation's 22nd Prime Minister, ending the 13-year rule of the Liberal Party; in Ottawa. Harper, with his wife and children on election night, above, moderated his reputation as a humorless right-winger, joking on the campaign trail about his lack of charisma. He made ethics in government a plank in his platform, capitalizing on voter exhaustion with incumbent Paul Martin's scandal-ridden Liberals. But because the Conservatives failed to win a House of Commons majority, Harper's government, which is expected...
...Canada may not be quite what it used to be. Polls indicate that despite the anti-U.S. attacks, Conservatives are likely to be the big winners in the Jan. 23 federal vote. That would make Harper, 46, Canada's first Conservative Prime Minister since...
During the last federal election, in June 2004, the Liberals successfully painted the Toronto-born Harper as a far-right ideologue out to shred Canada's social fabric. Harper never effectively fought back. But he has since repositioned himself. While he originally supported the Iraq war and promotes such traditional Tory issues as tax cuts and a tougher stance on crime, he is also pushing such centrist initiatives as tax credits for people who buy mass-transit passes. Harper has vowed to revisit the issue of same-sex marriage, which is now legal in Canada, by putting...
...Harper's shrewdest move has been to distance himself from the U.S. After a Dec. 2 Op-Ed piece in the Washington Times said Harper's election would "put a smile on President George W. Bush's face," Harper wrote a letter to the editor pointing out the differences between his policies and those of the Bush Administration. And when the Liberals released the TV spots playing up Harper's supposed love affair with U.S. conservatives, the Tories returned fire, issuing a press release that chided their opponents for resorting to "American-style" campaign tactics. Canada's conservatives have learned...