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1/ Poilievere is Harpers sock puppet. He follows and shares the same ideology. Here are some famous Harper quotes, many before being elected.
"If Ottawa giveth, then Ottawa can taketh away."
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2/ "My own views on abortion, I'm not on either pole of that and neither of the interest groups on either end of this issue would probably be comfortable with my views."

3/ "We'll support the government on issues if it's essential to the country but our primary responsibility is not to prop up the government, our responsibility is to provide an opposition and an alternative government for Parliament and for Canadians."

4/ "As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions."

5/ "I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage."
"Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever been."

6/ "What the government has to do, if it wants to govern for any length of time, is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it."

7/ "I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage."

8/ "There is a Canadian culture that is in some ways unique to Canada, but I don't think Canadian culture coincides neatly with borders."

9/ "Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff."

10/ "But I've been very clear in this campaign - I don't believe the party should have a position on abortion"

11/ I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions."

12/ "After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question."

13/ "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 pubic opinion."

14/ "I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome."

15/ "If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people."
"The government can only be brought down because it alienates several parties in the House."

16/ "We're not going to scrap the budget and make up some totally new platform the day after the election. So it's certainly willingness to compromise but we're not going back on the fundamental things we're running on in this campaign."

17/ "Canada is in budgetary deficit now only because of the recession, only because of stimulus measures, and we will come out of it. We will go back into surplus position when the economy recovers. So there is no need in Canada to raise taxes."

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