OTTAWA—A buoyant Prime Minister Stephen Harper, fresh off a majority election win, returned to Parliament Hill Wednesday declaring that the “Conservative party is Canada’s party.”
Welcoming the new crop of Tory MPs, Harper said their victories helped the party win a “third mandate, our biggest strongest mandate, a majority mandate.”
“I really don’t get tired of using that word,” Harper said, as he addressed his 166-member caucus.
With Parliament set to resume Thursday — a month after the election — Harper said he was making good on his election pledge to hit the ground running.
“Even as a majority government — especially as a majority government — we must keep working to earn the trust of our fellow citizens,” Harper said.
“We must continue practicing the lessons of the past five years, holding to our principles but also listening, caring and adapting,” he said.
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