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Oct 19, 2026
Gavin TigheHOST
The Reform Party.
Stephen ThieleHOST
Yeah, well, and the Reform Party, the Canadian Alliance, with its certain stream of conservatism, which is a lot different than we see in Ontario.
Stephen ThieleHOST
So, you know, Alberta certainly has some tensions.
Stephen ThieleHOST
And, you know, I can certainly remember, you know, being a university student or maybe even in high school, wasn't Premier Lougheed at one point in time saying something to Eastern Canada, like let the Eastern bastards freeze in the dark.
Menaka Raman-WilmsHOST
In 2006, Harper was elected prime minister.
Menaka Raman-WilmsHOST
And we should just mention a little bit of the history here because, of course, he's leading the modern Conservative Party of Canada, which was created by merging two parties together, the Canadian Alliance, which was the newer iteration of the Reform Party, which you talked about earlier, Tyler, and merging that with the progressive conservatives.
Menaka Raman-WilmsHOST
So, Tyler, let's talk about Harper as prime minister here.
Menaka Raman-WilmsHOST
What happened to the separatist movement under his prime ministership?
Chantal HébertPANELIST
But I guess my, I guess my point was it's easy to say all that, but it's hard to imagine how you gather a consensus internally to elect a leader that has the moral, uh, capital to do that, uh, uh, a- and to get elected leader.
Chantal HébertPANELIST
Uh, Stephen Harper had that up to a point when he campaigned for the Canadian Alliance leadership against Stockwell Day, and told Canadian Alliance members, "If you pick me, I'm not gonna be doing the abortion thing." Um, so telling it to the people who will actually want it to happen, and winning anyways.
Chantal HébertPANELIST
But in the...
Chantal HébertPANELIST
I mean, I'm not a c- a- an insider to the conservative movement, but I do take Jason Kenney's word that, uh, uh, a f- serious majority of the people who would actually vote in a leadership campaign are of the persuasion that you describe, that actually makes the party more out of step with Canadians.
Ted MortonGUEST
So it seemed to me that 30 years later, leading up to this referendum, it's legitimate to ask, has the West gotten in? Has all the effort that...
Ted MortonGUEST
The Reform Party, the Canadian Alliance, the Conservative Party of Canada, my efforts, has that made a difference? And unfortunately, the conclusion I reached is no, that we are as vulnerable.
Ted MortonGUEST
That the last 30 years, we've continued to be very vulnerable to destructive and predatory federal policies.
Ted MortonGUEST
We've even lost ground.
Monte SolbergGUEST
So both my parents were entrepreneurs, and that obviously influenced me.
Tim QuerengesserHOST
Solberg was a federal MP for Medicine Hat with the Reform Party, then the Canadian Alliance, then the Modern Conservative Party from the 90s until 2008.
Tim QuerengesserHOST
He's now part of Vote to Stay, along with Jason Kenney and other conservatives.
Tim QuerengesserHOST
urging people to vote no to separation.
Dean AllisonGUEST
And so basically we started looking for property, found a place, and then moved down.
Dean AllisonGUEST
I ran for the Canadian Alliance in 2000 unsuccessfully.
Dean AllisonGUEST
No one blamed me for losing because the parties were split at the time, and I came very close, within 2,000 votes.
Dean AllisonGUEST
But I told people, c- we had a house there at the time, so we bought it in '98.
Jeremy HarrisonGUEST
Well, 04, actually, but yeah, just kind of like that journey though, Andrew, right? And you bring it up, that's funny, because you would remember, because Noah was, I think, running the NDP campus club or something like that at U of S.
Jeremy HarrisonGUEST
So whenever, like Jack, newly elected leader of the NDP, and I had been the Canadian Alliance observer at the NDP convention, right? that elected him leader.
Jeremy HarrisonGUEST
But he would stop at Noah's house because like we would basically host a reception every time Jack was in town.
Jeremy HarrisonGUEST
So that was, you know, really interesting.
Jeremy HarrisonGUEST
And it was kind of at that point, you know, probably less partisan, I think, than it is now.
Jeremy HarrisonGUEST
And we spent a lot of time with the kind of conservative Canadian Alliance youth and NDP youth and all of that.
Jeremy HarrisonGUEST
But yeah, there's a picture of me and Leighton like arm wrestling in the basement at like three in the morning.
Jeremy HarrisonGUEST
And I hope that picture never actually surfaces, but I know it's out there.
Jason LavigneHOST
He was elected to Alberta's legislature in 1986 and served in several cabinet positions, including Minister of Labor, Minister of Social Services, and provincial treasurer, as well as serving as acting premier.
Jason LavigneHOST
In twen- in 2000 he became the leader of the Canadian Alliance and subsequently leader of the official opposition in the House of Commons.
Jason LavigneHOST
He later served federally as Minister of Public Safety, Minister of International Trade, and President of the Treasury Board.
Jason LavigneHOST
Tonight, Stockwell Day will make the case for stay, that Alberta should remain part of Canada.
Tom KmiecGUEST
It's like a social club, and it was kind of like that for myself as well.
Tom KmiecGUEST
I started volunteering for the Canadian Alliance back in 2000, and I would door knock to get over my natural shyness and to meet a lot of young people.
Tom KmiecGUEST
Just, just meet people.
Tom KmiecGUEST
That was kind of, like, the big impetus to do it.
Dimitri SoudasGUEST
And I, I always remember during the first leadership race, not, not, no.
Dimitri SoudasGUEST
So the first leadership was for the Canadian Alliance.
Dimitri SoudasGUEST
The second leadership, leadership race, excuse me.
Dimitri SoudasGUEST
I asked Prime Minister Harper, who was opposition leader then, I said, "How do we win this leadership race, and then how do we form government?" And I remember what he told me to this day.
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