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Stephen Harper: How Much Do You Really Know About Canada's Prime Minister (QUIZ)

The Huffington Post Canada   First Posted: 11/16/11 04:29 PM ET   Updated: 11/16/11 04:56 PM ET

Stephen Harper has been Canada's Prime Minister since 2006 and will be until at least 2015, by which time he will have become the sixth longest serving PM in our nation's history, behind William Lyon Mackenzie King, Sir John A. Macdonald, Pierre Trudeau, Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Jean Chrétien — illustrious company.

However, while Harper has without doubt been the most important figure in 21st century Canadian politics so far, many citizens still know little about him. Harper's Facebook page has just 67,208 likes, compared to more than 24 million likes for Barack Obama. Even if you factor in relative populations, Obama has roughly 36 times as many Facebook followers as Harper. And the lack of interest doesn't stop with Facebook.

Harper has around 180,000 followers on Twitter. Obama has 11.1 million.

A search for "Stephen Harper Biography" on Amazon.ca yield 26 results. The same search for Obama? 362 results.

If this all seems like poppycock to you, take our quiz and prove us wrong.

How much do you really know about Stephen Harper?
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Stephen Harper has been Canada's Prime Minister since 2006 and will be until at least 2015, by which time he will have become the sixth longest serving PM in our nation's history, behind William Lyon ...
Stephen Harper has been Canada's Prime Minister since 2006 and will be until at least 2015, by which time he will have become the sixth longest serving PM in our nation's history, behind William Lyon ...
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CanadaStan
Cogito ergo spud, I think, therefore I yam
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06:25 PM on 11/17/2011
My my, just listen to all the hate filled 'progressives' venting here!
What was that Velvet Jack was saying about love being better than hate?
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CanadaStan
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06:20 PM on 11/17/2011
12/12. in 1:55
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YankeeCanuck
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04:48 PM on 11/17/2011
I know he is our PM and that is a horrific piece of knowledge.
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gx5000
Life's too short, be happy..
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03:04 PM on 11/17/2011
In a speech to an American think tank called us a Welfare State...and worse.

A few years later he got elected.
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CanadaStan
Cogito ergo spud, I think, therefore I yam
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06:21 PM on 11/17/2011
No, he called us a northern European welfare state, and he was right,
Notice any troubles in Europe lately?
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gx5000
Life's too short, be happy..
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06:32 PM on 11/17/2011
Man you, you make me laugh so....this was in 1997...

"Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it. Canadians make no connection between the fact that they are a Northern European welfare state and the fact that we have very low economic growth, a standard of living substantially lower than yours (US), a massive brain drain of young professionals to your country, and double the unemployment rate of the United States."

- Conservative leader Stephen Harper, then vice-president of the National Citizens Coalition, in a June 1997 Montreal meeting of the Council for National Policy, a right-wing American think tank.

"In their own words" has a collections of wonder Harper comments, well worth looking up since they get taken down quite often.
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12:40 PM on 11/17/2011
Give me a list of the organizations that Mr. Harper belongs to, and I will have a good idea
of the man himself.
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Thelonius
Lived in Middle East for
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11:39 AM on 11/17/2011
http://commonground.ca/iss/238/cg238_olson.shtml

"My Tory nightmare Tossing and turning with Harper at the helm"

By Geoff Olson (eminent Canadian journalist).

EXCERPTS:

"For decades, he has belonged to the Alliance Church, a body that won’t ordain women, denounces homosexuality, strongly opposes abortion and divorce and believes Christ will return during the Apocalypse. Evangelical Christians recognize the PM as one of their own, but there’s no political capital to be made by admitting his religious beliefs explicitly since that would alienate the majority of voters."

"Then there’s his position on Israel – on bended knee. From the attacks in the occupied territories to Israel’s 2006 bombing raids in Lebanon, his friends in the Mideast can do no wrong."

Thankfully for Canadians, Harper is his own worst enemy.
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john frodo
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09:01 AM on 11/17/2011
The worst thing to ever happen to Canada, I doubt the country will survive his wedge politics.
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CanadaStan
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06:22 PM on 11/17/2011
It survived the NEP...
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08:57 AM on 11/17/2011
My goal as a photographer is to take the first ever photo of Harper not looking goofy. A monumental task, I know.
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seanmagee
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08:03 AM on 11/17/2011
He's an alright guy I guess. Not the best, but not the worst.
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billybob7
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08:19 AM on 11/17/2011
arguably!
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Thelonius
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12:34 PM on 11/17/2011
History will judge him as one of the very worst prime ministers Canada has ever had.
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yer
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11:16 PM on 11/16/2011
He's separated from his wife and likes cats. You missed those (and many more)
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CanadaStan
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07:50 PM on 11/19/2011
Really?
Got any proof of that?
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Monster Mash
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10:30 PM on 11/16/2011
The real question is how much do I really care about Harper?

I'll give you a hint, it ranges from 0 and .01
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pinnsy
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10:04 PM on 11/16/2011
'How much do you know about Stephen Harper" The question should have been how much do you want to know about Stephen Harper?
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Phreaked
In Brightest Day, In Blackest Night
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09:07 PM on 11/16/2011
For all those who say i know nothing about Harper in which to judge him i scored 11/12 (who knew he liked the leafs?)
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10:08 PM on 11/16/2011
Not bad! I got 10/12.....the Leafs and...Stevie?????
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11:19 PM on 11/16/2011
that one threw me also. And I could not remember which Beatles song he sang in that rare moment he was human. I suppose it was because it was fleeting.
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10:48 PM on 11/16/2011
I got 9 of 12. Steve Harper. The Liberals? I suppose the Leafs are a logical choice seeing he grew up in TO.
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IranianDude
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08:36 PM on 11/16/2011
All we need to know about him is that he doesn't believe in democracy and is enamored with implementing a fascist society government by a cabal of Jes-s freaks and oil/gas corporate CEOs.

I'm utterly disgusted every time I see him
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10:09 PM on 11/16/2011
I'd seek treatment for that, were I you.....
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sunnyokanagan
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04:18 AM on 11/17/2011
The treatment is a vote in the next election.
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gx5000
Life's too short, be happy..
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03:06 PM on 11/17/2011
Yes, there are Meds to help you deal with reality when beer and wine fail...
Colpy, look around you, and back four decades, THEN decide...
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gwinegarden
She's an Arctic Wolf
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07:23 PM on 11/16/2011
Actually, way more than I want to.
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