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Stephen Joseph Harper, PC, MP (born April 30, 1959) is the 22nd and current Prime Minister of Canada, and leader of the Conservative Party. Harper became Prime Minister after his party won a minority government in the 2006 federal election. He is the first Prime Minister from the newly reconstituted Conservative Party, following a merger of the Progressive Conservative and Canadian Alliance parties, and the leader of the first government in Commonwealth history to lose the confidence of the House of Commons on the grounds of Contempt of Parliament.[2][3]
Harper has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Calgary Southwest in Alberta since 2002. Earlier, from 1993 to 1997, he was the MP for Calgary West. He was one of the founding members of the Reform Party, but ended his first stint as an MP to join, and shortly thereafter head, the National Citizens Coalition.[4] In 2002, he succeeded Stockwell Day as leader of the Canadian Alliance (the successor to the Reform Party) and returned to Parliament as Leader of the Opposition. In 2003, he reached an agreement with Progressive Conservative leader Peter MacKay for the merger of their two parties to form the Conservative Party of Canada. He was elected as the party’s first non-interim leader in March 2004.
Harper’s Conservative Party won a stronger minority in the October 2008 federal election, showing a small increase in the percentage of the popular vote and increased representation in the Canadian House of Commons with 143 of 308 seats. The 40th Canadian Parliament was dissolved in March 2011 after a no-confidence vote was passed by the opposition parties, finding Harper and his cabinet in contempt of Parliament.[5]
Early life
Harper was born in Toronto, the first of three sons of Margaret (née Johnston) and Joseph Harris Harper, an accountant at Imperial Oil.[6] He attended Northlea Public School and, later, John G. Althouse Middle School and Richview Collegiate Institute, both in Central Etobicoke. He graduated in 1978, and was a member of Richview Collegiate’s team on Reach for the Top, a television quiz show for Canadian high school students.[7] Harper then enrolled at the University of Toronto but dropped out after two months. He then moved to Edmonton, Alberta, where he found work in the mail room at Imperial Oil.[8] Later, he would advance to work on the company’s computer systems. He took up post-secondary studies again at the University of Calgary, where he completed a bachelor’s degree in economics. He later returned there to earn a master’s degree in economics, completed in 1993. Harper has kept strong links to the University of Calgary, and often lectured there. He is the most recent prime minister since Joe Clark without a law degree.
Political beginnings
Harper became involved in politics as a member of his high school’s Young Liberals Club.[9] He later changed his political allegiance because he disagreed with the National Energy Program (NEP) of Pierre Trudeau’s Liberal government.[10] He became chief aide to Progressive Conservative MP Jim Hawkes in 1985, but later became disillusioned with both the party and the government of Brian Mulroney, especially the administration’s fiscal policy[9] and its inability to fully revoke the NEP until 1986. He left the PC Party that same year.[11]
He was then recommended by the University of Calgary’s economist Bob Mansell to Preston Manning, the founder and leader of the Reform Party of Canada. Manning invited him to participate in the party, and Harper gave a speech at Reform’s 1987 founding convention in Winnipeg. He became the Reform Party’s Chief Policy Officer, and he played a major role in drafting the 1988 election platform. He is credited with creating Reform’s campaign slogan, “The West wants in!”[12]
Harper ran for the Canadian House of Commons in the 1988 federal election, appearing on the ballot as Steve Harper in Calgary West. He lost by a wide margin to Hawkes, his former employer. The Reform Party did not win any seats in this election, although party candidate Deborah Grey was elected as the party’s first MP in a by-election shortly thereafter. Harper became Grey’s executive assistant, and was her chief adviser and speechwriter until 1993.[13] He remained prominent in the Reform Party’s national organization in his role as policy chief, encouraging the party to expand beyond its Western base and arguing that strictly regional parties were at risk of being taken over by radical elements.[14] He delivered a speech at the Reform Party’s 1991 national convention, in which he condemned extremist views.[15]
Harper’s relationship with Manning became strained in 1992, due to conflicting strategies over the Charlottetown Accord. Harper opposed the Accord on principle for ideological reasons, while Manning was initially more open to compromise. Harper also criticized Manning’s decision to hire Rick Anderson as an adviser, believing that Anderson was not sufficiently committed to the Reform Party’s principles.[16] He resigned as policy chief in October 1992.
Harper stood for office again in the 1993 federal election, and defeated Jim Hawkes amid a significant Reform breakthrough in Western Canada. His campaign likely benefited from a $50,000 print and television campaign organized by the National Citizens Coalition against Hawkes, although the NCC did not endorse Harper directly.[17]
Reform MP
Harper emerged a prominent member of the Reform Party of Canada caucus. He was active on constitutional issues during his first term in Parliament, and played a prominent role in drafting the Reform Party’s strategy for the 1995 Quebec referendum. A long-standing opponent of centralized federalism, he stood with Preston Manning in Montreal to introduce a twenty-point plan to “decentralize and modernize” Canada in the event of a “no” victory.[18] Harper later argued that the “no” side’s narrow plurality was a worst-case scenario, in that no-one had won a mandate for change.[19]
Although not associated with the Reform Party’s radical wing, Harper expressed socially conservative views on some issues.[20] In 1994, he opposed plans by federal Justice Minister Allan Rock to introduce spousal benefits for same-sex couples. Citing the recent failure of a similar initiative in Ontario, he was quoted as saying, “What I hope they learn is not to get into it. There are more important social and economic issues, not to mention the unity question.”[21] Harper also spoke against the possibility of the Canadian Human Rights Commission or the Supreme Court changing federal policy in these and other matters.[22]
At the Reform Party’s 1994 policy convention, Harper was part of a small minority of delegates who voted against restricting the definition of marriage to “the union of one man and one woman”.[23] He actually opposed both same-sex marriage and mandated benefits for same-sex couples, but argued that political parties should refrain from taking official positions on these and other “issues of conscience”.[24]
Harper was the only Reform MP to support the creation of the Canadian Firearms Registry at second reading in 1995, although he later voted against it at third reading stage. He said at the time that he initially voted for the registry because of a poll showing that most of his constituents supported it, and added that he changed his vote when a second poll showed the opposite result. Some accused him of manipulating the second poll to achieve the result he wanted.[25] It was reported in April 1995 that some Progressive Conservatives opposed to Jean Charest’s leadership wanted to remove both Charest and Manning, and unite the Reform and Progressive Conservative parties under Harper’s leadership.[26]
Despite his prominent position in the party, Harper’s relationship with the Reform Party leadership was frequently strained. In early 1994, he criticized a party decision to establish a personal expense account for Preston Manning at a time when other Reform MPs had been asked to forego parliamentary perquisites.[27] He was formally rebuked by the Reform executive council despite winning support from some MPs. His relationship with Manning grew increasingly fractious in the mid-1990s, and he pointedly declined to express any opinion on Manning’s leadership during a 1996 interview.[28] This friction was indicative of a fundamental divide between the two men: Harper was strongly committed to conservative principles and opposed Manning’s inclinations toward populism, which he saw as leading to compromise on core ideological matters.[29]
These tensions culminated in late 1996 when Harper announced that he would not be a candidate in the next federal election. He resigned his parliamentary seat on January 14, 1997, the same day that he was appointed as a vice-president of the National Citizens Coalition (NCC), a conservative think-tank and advocacy group.[30] He was promoted to NCC president later in the year.
In April 1997, Harper suggested that the Reform Party was drifting toward social conservatism and ignoring the principles of economic conservatism.[31] The Liberal Party lost seats but managed to retain a narrow majority government in the 1997 federal election, while Reform made only modest gains.
Out of Parliament
1997–2000
Soon after leaving Parliament, Harper and Tom Flanagan co-authored an opinion piece entitled “Our Benign Dictatorship”, which argued that the Liberal Party only retained power through a dysfunctional political system and a divided opposition. Harper and Flanagan argued that national conservative governments between 1917 and 1993 were founded on temporary alliances between Western populists and Quebec nationalists, and were unable to govern because of their fundamental contradictions. The authors called for an alliance of Canada’s conservative parties, and suggested that meaningful political change might require electoral reforms such as proportional representation. “Our Benign Dictatorship” also commended Conrad Black’s purchase of the Southam newspaper chain, arguing that his stewardship would provide for a “pluralistic” editorial view to counter the “monolithically liberal and feminist” approach of the previous management.[32]
Harper remained active in constitutional issues. He was a prominent opponent of the Calgary Declaration on national unity in late 1997, describing it as an “appeasement strategy” against Quebec nationalism. He called for federalist politicians to reject this strategy, and approach future constitutional talks from the position that “Quebec separatists are the problem and they need to be fixed”.[33] In late 1999, Harper called for the federal government to establish clear rules for any future Quebec referendum on sovereignty.[34] Some have identified Harper’s views as an influence on the Chrétien government’s Clarity Act.[35]
As National Citizens Coalition (NCC) leader, Harper launched an ultimately unsuccessful legal battle against federal election laws restricting third-party advertising.[36] He also led the NCC in several campaigns against the Canadian Wheat Board,[37] and supported Finance Minister Paul Martin’s 2000 tax cuts as a positive first step toward tax reform.[38]
In 1997, Harper delivered a controversial speech on Canadian identity to the Council for National Policy, a conservative American think tank. He made comments such as “Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it”, “if you’re like all Americans, you know almost nothing except for your own country. Which makes you probably knowledgeable about one more country than most Canadians”, and “the NDP [New Democratic Party] is kind of proof that the Devil lives and interferes in the affairs of men.”[39] These statements were publicized and criticized during the 2006 election. Harper argued that the speech was intended as humour, and not as serious analysis.[40]
Harper considered campaigning for the Progressive Conservative Party leadership in 1998, after Jean Charest left federal politics. Among those encouraging his candidacy were senior aides to Ontario Premier Mike Harris, including Tony Clement and Tom Long.[41] He eventually decided against running, arguing that it would “burn bridges to those Reformers with whom I worked for many years” and prevent an alliance of right-wing parties from taking shape.[42] Harper was skeptical about the Reform Party’s United Alternative initiative in 1999, arguing that it would serve to consolidate Manning’s hold on the party leadership.[43] He also expressed concern that the UA would dilute Reform’s ideological focus.[44]
2000–01
When the United Alternative created the Canadian Alliance in 2000 as a successor party to Reform, Harper predicted that Stockwell Day would defeat Preston Manning for the new party’s leadership. He expressed reservations about Day’s abilities, however, and accused Day of “[making] adherence to his social views a litmus test to determine whether you’re in the party or not”.[45] Harper endorsed Tom Long for the leadership, arguing that Long was best suited to take support from the Progressive Conservative Party.[46] When Day placed first on the first ballot, Harper said that the Canadian Alliance was shifting “more towards being a party of the religious right”.[47]
After Pierre Trudeau’s death in 2000, Harper wrote an editorial criticizing Trudeau’s policies as they affected Western Canada. He wrote that Trudeau “embraced the fashionable causes of his time, with variable enthusiasm and differing results”, but “took a pass” on the issues that “truly defined his century”.[48] Harper subsequently accused Trudeau of promoting “unabashed socialism”, and argued that Canadian governments between 1972 and 2002 had restricted economic growth through “state corporatism”.[49]
After the Canadian Alliance’s poor showing in the 2000 election, Harper joined with other Western conservatives in co-authoring a document called the “Alberta Agenda”. The letter called on Alberta to reform publicly-funded health care, replace the Canada Pension Plan with a provincial plan and replace the Royal Canadian Mounted Police with a provincial police force. It became known as the “firewall letter”, because it called on the provincial government to “build firewalls around Alberta” in order to stop the federal government from redistributing its wealth to less affluent regions.[50] Alberta Premier Ralph Klein agreed with some of the letter’s recommendations, but distanced himself from the “firewall” comments.[51]
Harper also wrote an editorial in late 2000 arguing that Alberta and the rest of Canada were “embark[ing] on divergent and potentially hostile paths to defining their country”. He said that Alberta had chosen the “best of Canada’s heritage—a combination of American enterprise and individualism with the British traditions of order and co-operation” while Canada “appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country [...] led by a second-world strongman appropriately suited for the task”. He also called for a “stronger and much more autonomous Alberta”, while rejecting calls for separatism.[52] In the 2001 Alberta provincial election, Harper led the NCC in a “Vote Anything but Liberal” campaign.[53] Some articles from this period described him as a possible successor to Klein.[54]
Harper and the NCC endorsed a private school tax credit proposed by Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government in 2001, arguing that it would “save about $7,000 for each student who does not attend a union-run public school”. Education Minister Janet Ecker criticized this, saying that her government’s intent was not to save money at the expense of public education.[55]
Day’s leadership of the Canadian Alliance became increasingly troubled throughout the summer of 2001, as several party MPs called for his resignation. In June, the National Post newspaper reported that former Reform MP Ian McClelland was organizing a possible leadership challenge on Harper’s behalf.[56] Harper announced his resignation from the NCC presidency in August 2001, to prepare a campaign.[57]
Canadian Alliance leadership
Stockwell Day called a new Canadian Alliance leadership race for 2002, and soon declared himself a candidate. Harper emerged as Day’s main rival, and declared his own candidacy on December 3, 2001. He eventually won the support of at least 28 Alliance MPs,[58] including Scott Reid, James Rajotte[59] and Keith Martin.[60] During the campaign, Harper reprised his earlier warnings against an alliance with Quebec nationalists, and called for his party to become the federalist option in Quebec.[61] He argued that “the French language is not imperilled in Quebec”, and opposed “special status” for the province in the Canadian Constitution accordingly.[62] He also endorsed greater provincial autonomy on Medicare, and said that he would not co-operate with the Progressive Conservatives as long as they were led by Joe Clark.[63] On social issues, Harper argued for “parental rights” to use corporal punishment against their children and supported raising the age of sexual consent.[64] He described his potential support base as “similar to what George Bush tapped”.[65]
The tone of the leadership contest turned hostile in February 2002. Harper described Day’s governance of the party as “amateurish”,[66] while his campaign team argued that Day was attempting to win re-election by building a narrow support base among different groups in the religious right.[67] The Day campaign accused Harper of “attacking ethnic and religious minorities”.[68] In early March, the two candidates had an especially fractious debate on CBC Newsworld.[69] The leadership vote was held on March 20, 2002. Harper was elected on the first ballot with 55 percent support, against 37 percent for Day. Two other candidates split the remainder.
After winning the party leadership, Harper announced his intention to run for Parliament in a by-election in Calgary Southwest, recently vacated by Preston Manning. Ezra Levant had already been chosen as the riding’s Alliance candidate and initially declared that he would not stand aside for Harper; he subsequently reconsidered.[70] The Liberals did not field a candidate, following a parliamentary tradition of allowing opposition leaders to enter the House of Commons unopposed. The Progressive Conservative candidate, Jim Prentice, also chose to withdraw.[71] Harper was elected without difficulty over New Democrat Bill Phipps, a former United Church moderator. Harper told a reporter during the campaign that he “despise[d]” Phipps, and declined to debate him.[72]
Harper officially became Leader of the Opposition in May 2002. Later in the same month, he said that the Atlantic Provinces were trapped in “a culture of defeat” which had to be overcome, the result of policies designed by Liberal and Progressive Conservative governments. Many Atlantic politicians condemned the remark as patronizing and insensitive. The Legislature of Nova Scotia unanimously approved a motion condemning Harper’s comments,[73] which were also criticized by New Brunswick Premier Bernard Lord, federal Progressive Conservative leader Joe Clark and others. Harper refused to apologize, and said that much of Canada was trapped by the same “can’t-do” attitude.[74]
His first 18 months as opposition leader were largely devoted towards consolidating the fractured elements of the Canadian Alliance and encouraging a union of the Canadian Alliance and the federal Progressive Conservatives[citation needed]. The aim of this union was to present only one right-of-center national party in the next federal election. In undertaking the merger talks, PC leader Peter MacKay reversed his previous agreement with leadership opponent David Orchard not to merge with the Alliance. After reaching an agreement with MacKay in October 2003, the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada officially merged in December, with the new party being named the “Conservative Party of Canada”.[75]
Harper is reported to have attended the 2003 meeting of the Bilderberg Group.[76]
In March 2003 Harper and Stockwell Day co-wrote a letter to The Wall Street Journal in which they condemned the Canadian government’s unwillingness to participate in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.[77]
Yeah, I’m not voting Conservative this election.
1) I don’t agree with most of their policies.
2) Stephen Harper is kind of a jerk.
I’ll skirt the campaign websites over the weekend and see what they’re offering for platforms.
This may help. It’s sort of a strategic voting guide if you are of the Anybody but Harper mind set. It doesn’t really go into the platforms but it does tell you who has the best chance against the Conservatives in each riding.
http://www.projectdemocracy.ca/
don’t succumb to strategic voting; don’t let the government TELL YOU how to vote! we have more than 2 parties for a reason!
TL;DR
ditto
Yup
Silly Lotisque thought he could avoid an Ordinal by being html savvy?!?!?
Ha HA!!! How delightfully amusing…
Stephen Harper looks like he would have gotten beaten-up a lot in school
Doesn’t he still?
Even more so.
I beat he did… That’s the type that usually wins in the end by being a slimy thief…
Kind of like those guys who become cops just so they can power trip on people and get revenge on everyone who ever did anything to them.
Oh my… my heart literally skipped when I saw Putin’s picture.
I knew when i saw that that you ladies would be all atwitter about him.
I think I’ve been twitterpated…
^-^
I know! I may need to retire to my bunk early.
His eyes are… just damn.
Shmexy is a word. Isn’t it?
Vlad the Cossack:
The lewd old woman pushed a cup of vodka toward Vlad as his eyes strayed to the young nun weeping and praying in the corner of the hut. Vlad eyed the cup of vodka. “Mother I cannot take what is yours. It is enough that you share your shelter with us.” The old woman leered some more and said, “I have other ways to warm you up. That sniveling fool in the corner does not know how to warm a man but I kept my man warm for forty-five years with no complaints on either side.” Vlad could not help but smile at the old woman. “Mother you honor me but my wife is waiting I must leave as soon as the lightening passes. The old woman caressed his thigh. The young nun prayed and wept louder. “I must comfort my horse.” Vlad almost ran out the door and around the hut to the shelter where his horse was sleeping oblivious to the lightening overhead. Vlad brushed him anyway and watched for the first break in the storm.
LOOK I ALREADY APOLOGIZED FOR NOT WRITING MORE OKAY? WHAT DO YOU EXPECT ME TO DO, ACTUALLY WRITE MORE?
While I truly admire your delightful prose, my mischievous nature considers the amusing situation with the horse…
My Horse is Amaziiiiiing
Oh my I am tired. I guess I might just call it an early night perhaps sit in the hot tub for forty-five minutes or so.
He is surprisingly dreamy.
zOMG I know! I always assumed that he was one of those guys who got better with age. Unh … speechless …
Agreed.
I find that most men become more attractive when they’re older. They grow into their ears and aren’t as annoyingly c0cky.
But Vlad just matured from alluringly sexy to terribly handsome.
Wow! The Admin Gods finally read my c0cky post!!!
I thought the ModeratorBot had eaten it for forever and ever…
*swoon* ^-^
oh my indeed! the motherland is beckoning..
My faith was so much stronger then
I believed in fellow men
And I was so much older then….
When I was young.
*applauds*
*bows*
One of my favorites oldies.
Excuse me for saying this, but our nation’s president is FINE
Really? Where do you live?
I assume you are in the US. Please, please please do not say you are from Canada or Britain. If you are from Canada or Britain you may lie and say you are from the US or Russia just to save face.
Whether you like his policies or not Obama is an attractive man, not my type but attractive enough. Putin wins in the great smiles department.
Not sure why you would assume that…
Anyone else think young Vlad looks like Draco Malfoy?
yes!
Just what I thought, actually!
I knew he looked like some kind of villain.
ooh, young vlad looking good
No kidding! He is hawt!
Not too bad as an old guy, but that picture, whoa!
What is it about Slavic men? They are absolutely dishy when young and oh so yeck when older. Is this adaptive? They get in all the sex and baby making early – then again, Slavic women also have the same problem.
Wow! Putin’s a babe!! Those damn piercing eyes…
Where’s the eye-candy for the straight blokes? Margaret Thatcher was a bit of a saucy minx in her younger days the Queen ain’t half bad either, I can’t think of any other others. (And not Palin, pleh)
I completely agree.
Make that three!! Let’s see the ladies!
Some one say let’s see the ladies?
http://echoworld.com/B04/B0402/Belinda-Stronach.jpg
Couldn’t find a picture of her younger.
Don’t know if you really need to…
Isn’t there an elected official in Italy who was once a famous pr0n star? (I’d rather not google that one at the office…)
She’s a pretty lady at any age.
Vladimir <3
Stephen Harper had lips! Who woulda guessed!
He had to have them removed so he could fit his head up his own a$$.
Speaking of Canucks and such —
I don’t usually follow hockey, but… GO FLYERS!! FLY ON!!
The Canucks have swum to the next round as well! Go Nucks!!!
DOH!! Any chance for a NW / Central East Face Off?
Only in the finals. Though I’m personally hoping for a Montreal Canadiens vs. Vancouver Canucks final, just as a “Fvck you” to Gary Bettman (the commissioner of the NHL) who tends to put expansion teams in places where hockey has no business being, like Tampa Bay, Phoenix, etc. while neglecting the northern markets. No team that’s in the Stanley cup finals should have to be selling tickets at $20 each to get people in the stands and still not be selling out (see Tampa Bay 2004 Finals). /rant
Sorry I’m not even really a sports fan and I get rabid come this time of year.
You have a problem with the San Jose Sharks and the Anaheim Ducks?
The California teams seem to work, but I think that’s because the LA Kings have been around for quite a while, so this strange California hockey culture has developed, I still don’t completely agree with them being put there in the beginning but they both seem to have a good fan base, possibly due to the large Canadian ex-pat population in California. I think that giving franchises to sun belt areas before traditional hockey areas, or moving them (Winnipeg to Phoenix) is wrong and is just bad business. The NHL shouldn’t be trying to move into areas where there is virtually no desire for another professional sports team least of all hockey, instead they should be moving into areas where there is an under served fan base, Portland comes to mind.
I think you might be surprised where you will find hockey fans. I was born and raised in CA with no hockey teams anywhere in sight, but very much enjoyed watching the game (no ice rinks anywhere nearby to let me play it). Does this make me a CA Hockey Hipster?
Yes you are a hockey hipster.
I know there are hockey fans everywhere, but it’s more a matter of a critical mass that can sustain a team without it being propped up by an owner who just wants a sports team but all of the other sports were taken in their area.
Now bow your head and pray with me…
Our Father,who art in GM Place,
hockey be Thy name,
Thy will be done,
GOLD to be WON
on ICE as well as IN THE STANDS.
Give us this day, our hockeysticks
and forgive us our penalties,
as we forgive those who crosscheck against us.
Lead us not into elimination
but deliver us to victory,
in the name of the fans,
CANADA
and the HOLY PUCK.
AMEN
TBH, though, the Northeast is pretty saturated with teams, unless you want to give one to Maine. There’s the Boston Bruins, NY Islanders (snerk), NY Rangers (snerk snerk), NJ Devils, Philly Flyers, etc.
And Tampa was given the Lightning as a way to try to shut up the people that were clamoring for a baseball or basketball team. I know, doesn’t make much sense to me either, and I lived there at the time.
By more northern I was more referring to the northern mid-western states. I agree the Northeast US has a saturation of teams but it also has the fanbase to support it. A team in Maine would be perfect, people from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick could more easily go see a game, it would be a situation much like Windsor, Ontario, where you have more Detroit fans then Toronto fans because of proximity.
Comrade Putin has hardly aged at all.
holy crap Vladimir was HAWT!
also as a canadian i think its HILARIOUS that harper is wearing lumberjack plaid LOL
Harper and Cameron are two hot daddies
Harper looks like the sort who should be dragged out behind the butt lounge and get “filled in”, so to speak…
Obama was one cool motherf***ker
+1
was?
God, even when Harper was young, he looked like a psycho…
http://en.for-ua.com/files/blogfoto/Putin-young.jpg
Heh, I dunno about whoever that is up top, but Vlad was looking pretty sharp even back in the day….
Holy hot DAY-UM Putin looks good!
Vladimir Putin was and still is a total hottie.
Vladimir Putin… y u attractive in my eyes?
Huh. Harper Kinda looked like Ringo Starr when he was younger. Might just be the angle though.
Bugger me, Vlad is fit! I’m going to invent a time machine for the sole purpose of going back in time and bedding him. Or just try and bed him now… Whichever works.
But Cameron is still a prat though.
Is it just me, or did Stephen Harper look like a young Ringo Starr?…
I’m dragging through all 87 comments to check, but young Putin looks like Draco Malfoy, just saying.