Stephen Harper

Impediments Dept: So, unfettered, he delivered big time for big business and carved a path for a resource-based economy shorn of impediments for years to come, according to The Star. Anyone who lays pipe hit the gusher and anyone who mines hit the motherlode in this budget crafted by a government that sees old-style resource riches as the path to 21st century prosperity and oTTAWA Stephen Harper, finally freed of the constraints of the minority years, had no need to deliver anything in his 2012 budget to placate his political opponents. He has stacked the deck in favour of resource exports at the expense of environmental opponents, the so-called radicals who have been in his crosshairs, and now largely kicked to the curb. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.