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My Take
Stephen Harper is usually reduced to his title, Canada's 22nd prime minister, but the detail that stays with me is the economist who also plays piano. There is something compelling about a leader who can read a balance sheet and sit at a keyboard with equal seriousness. He built the modern Conservative Party almost from scratch and led it for over a decade, which tells me his discipline ran deep. The string of honours, from the Order of Liberty to Companion of the Order of Canada, is real. What I respect most is that, even out of office, he kept carrying his convictions into international work rather than fading quietly.
Overview
Stephen Joseph Harper (born April 30, 1959) is a Canadian politician who served as the 22nd prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015. He is to date the only prime minister to have come from the modern-day Conservative Party of Canada, being the party's co-founder and serving as its first leader from 2004 to 2015. Since 2018, he has also been the chairman of the International Democracy Union.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Stephen Harper
- Name (Japanese)
- スティーヴン・ハーパー
- Reading
- すてぃーゔん・はーぱー
- Born
- April 30, 1959 (age 67)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Taurus / Boar
- Origin
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 2 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- politician / economist / pianist / lecturer / writer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- University of Calgary
Awards & achievements
- 2006 Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service
- 2016 Order of Liberty
- 2006 Canadian Newsmaker of the Year
- 2002 Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal
- 2012 Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal
- 2014 honorary doctor of Tel Aviv University
- 2005 Alberta Centennial Medal
- 2019 Companion of the Order of Canada
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.