The first time I met Stephen Harper was when I interviewed him on television. As we left the studio, he asked me how old I was. I told him. "Oh," he said, "we're the same age. Odd, you look much older." In other words, personal charm is not always the strong point of the Conservative Canadian prime minister and arguably the sole Western leader with a sensible, intelligent and consistent foreign policy. Harper is a relatively anonymous man from a relatively anonymous country — everybody knows Canada is there, but most people outside the second largest country in the world know very little about it.
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