Prime Minister Stephen Harper

Prime Minister Stephen Harper: With the Conservative government at the mid-point in its tenure, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has announced he will close Parliament briefly to give him the chance to lay out a new set of policies to carry his party into the 2015 election, according to The Star. His staff gave him a stamp with the single word No on it and I intend to use it a lot in the next few months, Flaherty remarked on the sidelines of a two-day private think-tank meeting with selected business executives, bankers and other prominent Canadians and OTTAWA Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says Canadians shouldnt expert any goodies in the way of tax breaks or new spending programs when the government overhauls its agenda in advance of a throne speech next month. But Flaherty, who is determined to eliminate Ottawas $18-billion budget deficit by the next election, told reporters Wednesday its unlikely the Conservatives new agenda will involve any significant spending initiatives. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.