"This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based on focus groups. We will not take a stand based on phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of public opinion… In my judgment Canada will eventually join with the allied coalition if war on Iraq comes to pass. The government will join, notwithstanding its failure to prepare, its neglect in co-operating with its allies, or its inability to contribute. In the end it will join out of the necessity created by a pattern of uncertainty and indecision. It will not join as a leader but unnoticed at the back of the parade."
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Prime Ministers of CanadaLeaders of the Official Opposition (Canada)Non-fiction authors from CanadaChristiansPoliticians from Toronto
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Hansard, January 29, 2003: On the Iraq war.
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Stephen Harper (born April 30, 1959, in Toronto, Ontario) was the Prime Minister of Canada. Harper was leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, a party created from the merger of the Canadian Alliance Party (formerly the Reform Party) and the Progressive Conservative Party.
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