Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes a speech in Whitehorse, Northern Canada. In an unexpected move, Stephen Harper said on Monday in Whitehorse, Capital of Yukon that he will ask the Governor General to prorogue Parliament, which was scheduled to resume in September, until October. Harper, who is currently on his week-long eighth annual summer tour in Canada's north, told reporters that his Conservative government will introduce the next speech from the throne, a speech outlining the government's agenda for the coming session of Parliament. It will be the third time since Harper took office in 2006 that he has sought prorogation, a move accused by the opposition parties of trying to evade accountability on recent scandals related to the ruling party.

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