member_of_political_party michael l. macdonald
Michael L . Macdonald ( born May 4 , 1955 ) is a Canadian politician and a Conservative member of the Canadian Senate . He was appointed on the advice of Stephen Harper to the Senate on January 2 , 2009 . The ___MASK10___ , formally the Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance , was a conservative and right - wing populist federal political party in Canada that existed from 2000 to 2003 . The party was the successor to the ___MASK19___ and inherited its position as the Official Opposition in the House of Commons and held it throughout its existence . The party supported policies that were both fiscally and socially conservative , seeking reduced government spending on social programs and reductions in taxation . The ___MASK82___ , colloquially known as the Tories , is a political party in Canada . It is positioned on the right of the Canadian political spectrum . The party ' s leader from 2004 to 2015 was Stephen Harper , who served as Prime Minister from 2006 to 2015 . Stephen Joseph Harper ( born April 30 , 1959 ) is a Canadian retired politician who served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Canada , from February 6 , 2006 to November 4 , 2015 . He was the first prime minister to come from the modern ___MASK82___ , which was formed by a merger of the Progressive Conservative Party and the Canadian Alliance .