Mike Harcourt

He'll be back.

So, Am, when Mike Harcourt won, he said, "Let's boogie." What are you gonna say when you win?

Uh, when I say, I w- I will say the tribe has spoken.

See ya, Gordo.

There were a number of endorsements that came out in the last couple weeks.

There was this open letter from Mike Harcourt, Jeff Maggs, and Peter Ladner, whose endorsement for mayor was Rebecca Bly.

but then their council candidates was a mix of her council vote Vancouver, one city slate minus Caitlin Stockwell for some reason, and liberal Maura Stilwell.

I mean, I see why, like, I see why Moira Stovall got in there.

What do you think? There are some great examples of that.

We go back to 91, which is kind of the famous BC one, which is when Gordon Wilson, standing between Mike Harcourt and Rita Johnson, jabbed, this is why nothing gets done.

He didn't win that election, but he realigned politics in BC forever.

Or if you look at the 2015 campaign in Alberta, when Jim Prentice said to Rachel Notley, a skilled lawyer and a very talented person, I know math is hard.

Spontaneity, like Wilson's comment, are rare and dangerous.

Former Premier Mike Harcourt wished he could have done things differently.

The way that I was prepared was wrong.

I was prepared the day of the debate.

Uh, and probably, uh, the voices of people that aren't from the actual campaign, but someone who's endorsed them.

So Mike Harcourt, Brenda Bailey.

Mm.

Um, Tim Stevenson just came out today for Rebecca Bligh.

And, and in particular, I think when it is, you know, to a certain demographic.

To, to, uh, I would ...

Not to blanket statement, but the younger demographic perhaps isn't paying as much attention to a Mike Harcourt.

Mm.

Yeah.

Re- Rebecca Bligh got endorsed by Mike Harcourt, Peter Ladner, Geoff Meggs, Brenda Bailey.

Uh, over the course of the last week, you know, she's been in f- a solid fifth place of the five candidates that we talk about for a long time now.

Yeah.

Hey, we got a lot to talk about today, but before we do that, I just want to mark the passing of A major figure in B.C. politics, Colin Gableman, who is a former attorney general, longtime NDP MLA, elected two different times, once in North Vancouver in the Barrett years.

And then came back and served right through a lot of years in opposition, but the first term of Mike Harcourt's government.

Jeff, you knew him?

I did.

He had a huge number of people with him helping from the labor movement later as attorney general.

Uh, and he was not a lawyer.

So it was a bit of an eyebrow razor that Mike Harcourt made him an attorney general, but he, he, he's the father of a freedom of access and for access to information and a freedom of information and privacy in BC and also worked on, um, bubble zones that were created to protect uh legal abortion clinics from protesters who were really pressing in on people going to use those services so uh some very important uh decisions he made and a very very committed new democrat died at the age of 82 but um had been ill for six or seven months quite suddenly taken by by cancer so he'll never

heard a bad word about him be a big um certainly a gentleman and, um, had a chance to, to sit in a lawn chair next to him, uh, one summer day, a few years back and survey the entire landscape with him.

1991 provincial election televised leaders debate.

Mike Harcourt squaring off here with the leader of the Social Credit Party at that time, Rita Johnston.

And then Liberal leader Gordon Wilson comes in with the shot.

You're skating around it, but we want the numbers, Mike.