Ministers: Prime Minister Stephen Harper

Prime Minister Stephen Harper: Probably the most difficult job, you know, practical difficult thing you have to learn as a prime minister and ministers, our ministers as well, is dealing with the federal bureaucracy, Harper told the CBCs Rex Murphy in 2007, about a year after taking office, according to The Star. Harper, of course, has chosen to first write a book about hockey , which is due out in November and Prime Minister Stephen Harper once said he could write a book on what he had learned about the often-tense relationship between politicians and public servants. Its walking that fine line of, of being a positive leader of the federal public service, but at the same time pushing them and not becoming captive to them . . . I could write a book on that one. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.