Stephen Harper
  • The government can only be brought down because it alienates several parties in the House.

  • Whether Canada ends up as o-ne national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion.

  • Canadians 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.

  • First of all, I can't forget my first responsibility - which is to be the Leader of the Opposition and that's to provide an alternative government.

  • I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion.