Posted AT 11:17 PM EDT on 14/12/05
Old speech returns to haunt Harper
Ottawa — An eight-year-old Stephen Harper speech, which praises American conservative values, disparages Canada as a "welfare state" and says the jobless aren't worried because they have generous benefits, could provide fresh ammunition to his critics.
The speech was delivered to a 1997 Montreal meeting of the Council for National Policy, a little-known right-wing American think tank.
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