Stephen Joseph Harper (born April 30, 1959) is a Canadian <!--DO NOT add economist before consensus is established at Talk:Stephen Harper#Lead: Stephen Harper is a Canadian economist? per WP:CON-->politician who served as the 22nd prime minister of Canada<!--DO NOT capitalize prime minister, per WP:JOBTITLES--> from 2006 to 2015. Harper is the first and only prime minister to come from the modern-day Conservative Party of Canada, serving as the party's first leader from 2004 to 2015. Wikipedia