Happy Birthday Stephen Harper. What would you get our Prime Minister?
Happy Birthday Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Our PM turns 53 today. And we thought it'd be polite to wish him a happy birthday.
His wife, Laureen Harper, came by the office and gave the prime minister a cake, according to Harper's spokesperson.
Now that the PM has a strong, stable, Conservative majority government we're really not sure what to get him. So we asked Huffington Post Canada readers on Twitter what they would give our fearless leader.
Here are some of your responses:
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Michael Davis
Brian C
Kate MacKay
Sean M. Kelly
Lynn Orzel
Tiana McPhee
Marci
Rasta
Bernadette Wagner
Francesca Stranges
Bernadette Wagner
David Paterson
Book_Knerd©
How old were Canada's Prime Ministers when they took power? A look back:
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How Old Were Our Prime Ministers?
Here's a look at how old each Prime Minister was on the day he or she was sworn in.
Sir John A. Macdonald - 52
(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Prime_Ministers_of_Canada" target="_hplink">Wikimedia</a>)
Sir Alexander Mackenzie - 51
(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Prime_Ministers_of_Canada" target="_hplink">Wikimedia</a>)
Sir John Abbott - 70
(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Prime_Ministers_of_Canada" target="_hplink">Wikimedia</a>)
Sir John Thompson - 47
(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Prime_Ministers_of_Canada" target="_hplink">Wikimedia</a>)
Sir Mackenzie Bowell - 70
(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Prime_Ministers_of_Canada" target="_hplink">Wikimedia</a>)
Sir Charles Tupper - 74
(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Prime_Ministers_of_Canada" target="_hplink">Wikimedia</a>)
Sir Wilfrid Laurier - 54
(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Prime_Ministers_of_Canada" target="_hplink">Wikimedia</a>)
Sir Robert Borden - 57
(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Prime_Ministers_of_Canada" target="_hplink">Wikimedia</a>)
Arthur Meighen - 46
(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Prime_Ministers_of_Canada" target="_hplink">Wikimedia</a>)
William Lyon Mackenzie King - 47
(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Prime_Ministers_of_Canada" target="_hplink">Wikimedia</a>)
R. B. Bennett - 60
(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Prime_Ministers_of_Canada" target="_hplink">Wikimedia</a>)
Louis St. Laurent - 66
(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Prime_Ministers_of_Canada" target="_hplink">Wikimedia</a>)
John Diefenbaker - 61
(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Prime_Ministers_of_Canada" target="_hplink">Wikimedia</a>)
Lester B. Pearson - 65
(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Prime_Ministers_of_Canada" target="_hplink">Wikimedia</a>)
Pierre Trudeau - 48
(CP)
Joe Clark - 39
(CP)
John Turner - 55
(CP)
Brian Mulroney - 45
(CP)
Kim Campbell - 46
(CP)
Jean Chrétien - 59
(CP)
Paul Martin - 65
(CP)
Stephen Harper - 46
(CP)
The Huffington Post Canada | Posted: 04/30/2012 3:27 pm Updated: 04/30/2012 5:25 pm