Stephen Harper Birthday: We Ask Twitter What You Would Get Our Prime Minister? #HarperBirthday

The Huffington Post Canada  |  Posted: 04/30/2012 3:27 pm Updated: 04/30/2012 5:25 pm

Stephen Harper Birthday
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)

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Nadine Lumley
unseatHarper circle ca
05:39 PM on 05/13/2012
repost from: Jim Cohoon 12:29 PM on February 22, 2011

It does look like a real possibility most Canadian citizens could soon learn the hard way why a stubborn ignorance and apathy about their nation and its federal Harper Reform Government could come back to haunt them, and their children.

We have had it so (relatively) good in Canada for so long most of us have let our guard down.

Now our democratic practices are being deliberately corrupted and the once healthy well being of our civil society is being deliberately poisoned.
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Nadine Lumley
unseatHarper circle ca
05:19 PM on 05/13/2012
Why Canada can't afford Stephen Harper

It’s a good time to debunk the biggest Stephen Harper myth there is: “We are good economic managers”. Repeating a lie does not make it true.

We need to spend $15 billion on jails because unreported crimes are rising? Don't believe them. We need to stop the long-form census, because the census-takers are going to send you to jail? Don't believe them. We need to kill the long-gun registry, because the police are leading a cult conspiracy to take away everybody's guns? Don't believe them. We awarding a $19 billion untendered contract for new jets because the Russians are coming? Don't believe them. This is a government that is counting on fear, driven by lies, to earn the votes it needs to win again.

http://www.vancouverobserver.com/blogs/civicvoices/2010/12/19/why-canada-cant-afford-stephen-harper
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Nadine Lumley
unseatHarper circle ca
05:19 PM on 05/13/2012
Indicative of the surreptitious way checks and balances are subverted in the system was another story last week on how the cabinet very quietly handed itself the power to overrule the National Energy Board on projects such as the Northern Gateway. A National Post columnist was so affronted at this new outbreak of “institutional duplicity” that he accused the Tories of treating Canadians “like fools,” while knowing they could get away with it.

http://www.ipolitics.ca/2012/04/27/lawrence-martin-is-this-still-a-democracy-you-be-the-judge/
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Greg YanickThompson
05:29 PM on 05/01/2012
as a gift ! A label of treason , ship him to China as that is who the guy works for anyway !! and the rest cant be said here with out it being censored .. !!
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MissHtoA
Bad Religion is my gospel.
04:29 PM on 05/01/2012
Brown contents in a flaming paper bag, dropped at his door stop
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colpy
05:15 AM on 05/01/2012
A copy of "How to Win Friends and Influence People"...... :)
02:44 AM on 05/01/2012
I'd give him a pink slip. He has earned it.
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Atim-moot Tugayak
Sun News is Dark and Hateful.
02:02 AM on 05/01/2012
A book on ethics but failing that, a personality cuz stiff and boring is un-Canadian.
11:31 PM on 04/30/2012
I got his gift a little early this year...Tom Mulcair!
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Barron
09:37 PM on 04/30/2012
How about a sense of decency? Or a book of science for idiots.
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fromdnorth
OK I checked my micro-bio (didn't know I had one
09:30 PM on 04/30/2012
What would I get? Out
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Kenneth T Tellis
07:50 PM on 04/30/2012
I would buy Prime Minister Stephen Harper a very good pen for his birthday, so that he could write me a cheque for a million dollars!
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DirkNeptune
I love raspberry pie, damn it.
06:57 PM on 04/30/2012
I'd give him what he's given Canada with his dismantling of environmental controls...

...a glass of sludge and a dead fish.
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06:54 PM on 04/30/2012
How about a letter of termination for severely lacking "wisdom".
06:53 PM on 04/30/2012
Replacement MP`s for McKay. Woodworth, Oda and Toews