Bush’s Pal
One way to determine who Prime Minister Harper is (and isn’t) would be to listen to what others say about him…
President George W. Bush
“I’m impressed by his leadership style…We talked about—well, we talked about a lot of subjects, and that’s what you’d expect friends to do…And I’m proud to have allies like Steve who understand the stakes of the 21st century.”
Patrick Basham, director of the Democracy Institute and Cato Institute adjunct scholar
“Stephen Harper’s foreign policy has fulfilled the hopes of American conservatives. As prime minister, Mr. Harper has validated my prediction during the last campaign (notoriously referenced in a Liberal attack ad) that he would become George W. Bush’s new best friend internationally.”
“Considering both Mr. Harper’s policies and the respective departures from office of Britain’s Tony Blair and Australia’s John Howard, there is no doubt that, in the twilight of the Bush presidency, the Canadian prime minister is George Bush’s best foreign friend.”
Al Gore on Prime Minister Harper’s Conservative Party climate change plan
“I’m hearing that a reduction in intensity is going to be presented to the Canadian people as a legitimate policy. In my opinion it is a complete and total fraud that is designed to mislead the Canadian people.”
Rajendra Pachauri – head of the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
“This particular government has been a government of skeptics. They do not want to do anything on climate change[.]”
Enele Sopoaga, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Tuvalu to the United Nations and vice-chair of the Alliance of Small Island States
“I am extremely frustrated by the double standards of industrialized nations. Canada criticizes other countries about their human rights policies or about the death penalty while they are playing with the lives of island people and the Inuit.”
Click on the options below to learn more about Stephen Harper as…
- A salesman for Big Oil who never met a dirty oil project he didn’t like.
- A denier of climate change.
- A Conservative Canadian Prime Minister near election time looking for a boost from being photographed with President Obama.
- Someone who George Bush thinks “understands the stakes of the 21st century”.
