How Did Stephen Harper Affect Canada

Stephen Harper is an important Canadian as he had help Canada in many ways during his years serving as Prime Minister. Stephen Harper was a the conservative party leader and had served as Prime Minister in 2006 to 20015 and he was in politics in 1981. Even tho his reputation in overall good his has also been called the worst Prime Minister. Some of his many good deeds were him apologizing to the Chinese about the head tax and to the Aboriginals as they were also mistreated. Some of his actions were deemed bad as he served as Prime Minister the government denied multiple scientist to speak freely about their research. Over all Stephen Harper is one of the most significant people in the world as not only did he affect Canada in many ways he had
“Combatting crime and terrorism became watchwords of the Harper government” (Andrew Mcintosh 01/27/2016) that had lead to the Canadian government in help other country such as Afghanistan. Another reason Stephen Harper was one of the greatest Canadians is because “he became the first sitting prime minister to visit the front lines of a combat operation when he went to Ma’sum Ghar, Afghanistan in May 2007.”(Andrew Mcintosh 01/27/2016), that meant that he had not only helping Afghanistan he was directly helping them. He then helped Afghanistan enforce the police force in Afghanistan as he had extended Canada’s combat role in Feb 2009 to to Dec 2011 (Andrew Mcintosh 01/27/2016). The Canadian government had also created worse/longer punishment for those who break the law by having longer sentences as such (Andrew Mcintosh 01/27/2016) During his second run as Prime Minister he had “Harper’s government then delivered $45 billion in federal stimulus spending between 2009 and 2012. This resulted in the first federal deficits in a decade but assisted Canada in emerging from the financial crisis” this made Canada on its steady legs after the oil prices have decreased