Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper An iPod User
In his annual year-end interview with CTV News's Lloyd Robertson and Robert Fife, Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper mentioned that he has an iPod, loaded mainly with classic rock tunes from the '60s, '70s, and '80s, beyond which his musical knowledge peters out.The Harpers are actually an Apple family. The Prime Minister's wife, Laureen Teskey-Harper, 44, is by profession a graphic artist and photographer who used to run a thriving design firm in Calgary, where she met the her future husband when she was a member of and working for the Canadian Reform Party, of which Stephen Harper was a Member of Parliament for in the 1990s.
(For readers unfamiliar with Canadian politics recently, the Reform Party morphed into the Canadian Alliance Party, of which Stephen Harper became leader in 2002, and which merged with the former Progressive Conservative Party in 2003 to form the Conservative Party of Canada which won a minority government mandate in Canada's federal election on January 23, 2006. Harper was elected Conservative party leader in 2004.)The blonde and attractive Ms. Teskey Harper has traveled extensively in Africa and is also a motorcyclist. Her volunteer efforts involve computer work for Rockcliffe Elementary School's annual book sale and the local library in Ottawa. She also offers her home to the Ottawa SPCA as a foster home for kittens.
According to political correspondent and commentator extraordinaire Mike Duffy of CTV News, who has visited the Harpers. Ms. Teskey-Harper does her graphic design work on Apple Macintosh computers, and is a BIG Mac fan.
Charles W. Moore
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