Stephen Harper: Then and Now

The hair’s much greyer, the children are older. See if you can spot more subtle differences that marked Stephen Harper’s near-decade as prime minister.

Stephen Harper delivers the federal budget on Parliament Hill with finance ministers Jim Flaherty in 2007 and Joe Oliver in 2015

Patrick Doyle/Reuters and Fred Chartrand/CP

On the campaign trail in 2006 and 2015

Mark Blinch/Reuters and Tom Hanson/CP

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Harper’s first (2006) and one of his last (2009) meetings with a U.S. President

Larry Downing/Reuters and Tom Hanson/CP

Swearing in his first (2006) and last cabinet (2011)

Chris Wattie/Reuters

Getting his kicks at the Quebec Winter Carnival (2007, 2015)

Paul Chiasson/CP and Jacques Boissinot/CP

Celebrating first electoral victory (2006) and conceding defeat (2015)

Fred Lum/Globe and Mail/CP and Jeff McIntosh/CP

The Harper family Christmas cards (2006, 2013)

Sean Kilpatrick/CP and Fred Chartrand/CP

After his first leaders debate (2004) and his last (2015)

Shaun Best/Reuters and Adrian Wyld/Pool/Reuters