Kim Campbell

There's this kind of interesting blurring of reality and mentioning Spielberg and even someone like Oliver Stone.

Do you hear yourself to now be the Canadian, you know, historical filmmaker? Like, are you ready for people to continue to ask you questions? Like, are you going to do like, you know, a Kim Campbell cameo short film or something like that, you know?

Well, yeah, I mean, that person already kind of existed in his name was Pierre Burton.

Do you know who that is?

Like, you know, people really had strong opinions about the guy.

And then, of course, his coalition fragmented and.

gave birth to the Reform Party, which becomes the Conservative Party we know today, and the Bloc Québécois, which is still with us, right? And of course, then after that, of course, Kim Campbell comes in to sort of, I don't know, carry the corpse to its burial spot.

But that was the end.

Allowing big private money to buy up chunks of our airports has been a long-held neoliberal dream in Canada.

Kim Campbell proposed it during her short-lived government, as did Justin Trudeau in 2017.

And they were both hoping to follow in the example of Margaret Thatcher's UK, which became the first Western nation to fully privatize their existing major airports back in 1987.

Since then, many European countries as well as Australia and New Zealand have followed suit with massive pension funds, often purchasing the airports outright or buying up long-term concessions to run them.