Stephen Harper Quotes
Canada has a choice when it comes to defending our sovereignty in the Arctic; either we use it or we lose it.
Other nations also claimed rights to the Arctic.
Stephen Harper, Canadian Prime Minister (Conservative), Canadian Conservative Party Leader, Speech, Esquimalt, Canada, July 9, 2007
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His definition of Russian territory included any area that the Czars claimed which included Poland, the Baltic States, the Ukraine, the Caucuses, but at the time of the speech, Russia was fighting to keep its existing territory.
French Canadian separatists had begun a movement for an independent Quebec. The area that was to be an independent nation, however, included the land of several Indian tribes including the Cree. They insisted on the same right of self-determination within Quebec as the French Canadians claimed within Canada. Their opposition among others led to the failure of the Meech Lake Accord.
Arguing that the Arabs will never agree willingly to a Jewish state:
This is a very important quotation in that there are some who believed—then and now—narrowly that self defense is limited to responding to only physical attacks on the United States per se. Kellogg made it clear that it includes attacks on the United States and any of its possessions. Most important it allows response to any “danger” to the United States. By this definition, for example, if Saddam had been developing weapons of mass destruction in the Iraq war, the pre-emptive attack would have been self-defense. Since the claim of weapons development was bogus, it was not self defense. The key variable a reasonable danger. Nations determine that by what others do and say. In 2011, if Iran were developing nuclear weapons the U. S. could attack as an act of self defense because the Iranian highest level officials have called for “death to the United States”. When they just had the intention to harm us, there was no danger. But when they add the means to harm us to the intention, that is a danger. Likewise other nations may act in self defense if a potential enemy threatens to endanger them and has the means to carry out the threats or desires.
See {627882} for one of the incidents that caused international repercussions. Thailand is a totally food self sufficient country and so is not subject to foreign pressure as much as if it were a food importer and not an exporter.
Southern intellectuals at the beginning of the Civil War were convinced of their invincibility. They misjudged both the effect of the industrial and technological might and the moral intensity of the North.
Stephen Joseph Harper PC CC is a Canadian politician who served as the prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015, the 22nd since Confederation. Harper won three mandates during his nearly decade-long tenure, and is the first and only prime minister to come from the modern-day Conservative Party of Canada, serving as the party's first leader from 2004 to 2015.
