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Stephen Harper

Former Prime Minister of CanadaWikipedia

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Sep 13, 2026

Amanda GalbraithPANELIST
12:18
But the Conservative Party historically has not been super disciplined in being like, "You know what? Let's leave our leader sticking around for a long time so we can, we can figure out if he can pull it together." Like, we're not like, like, we're not like that.
Amanda GalbraithPANELIST
12:29
We haven't been like that since Harper founded it, right? Since Harper lost in 2015, it's one and done.
Amanda GalbraithPANELIST
12:35
Um, this is the longest I've seen a leader kind of post sort of hang around in this kind of environment.
Amanda GalbraithPANELIST
12:41
Uh, but I do think if, if...
David ColettoPANELIST
16:43
I m- and we're gonna have numbers out this week.
David ColettoPANELIST
16:45
We did this really deep dive in Alberta to explore kind of public opinion around the referendum, and I can't recall a time when Albertans were more likely to say their country was headed in the right direction and their province wasn't.
David ColettoPANELIST
16:57
Maybe, you know, if there was, and there wasn't, but if there was an overlap, I think there was maybe a few months overlap between, like, when Stephen Harper was prime minister and Rachel Notley [laughs] was, was premier of Alberta.
David ColettoPANELIST
17:06
There was a few months, I think, overlap.
Lee EvansHOST
47:12
All the former living British prime ministers were there.
Lee EvansHOST
47:14
I think Stephen Harper, the prime minister of Canada, was there.
Lee EvansHOST
47:18
Dick Cheney was there.
Lee EvansHOST
47:19
It was a distinguished crowd, really quite unusual for prime ministerial funerals.
Tom ThompsonHOST
28:17
And I've done, I actually did a three hour solo episode where I exposed him and Mark Carney as pretty much the same.
Tom ThompsonHOST
28:22
And Stephen Harper, cause Stephen Harper signed us onto agenda 2030 and So it's like these people that are like hoping that there's some sort of savior figure in a politician.
Tom ThompsonHOST
28:31
These people would never go to the front lines for you.
Tom ThompsonHOST
28:34
They would never put themselves at risk.
Geoff MeggsGUEST
17:36
I think they're wondering that too, because they thought they had kind of, okay, collapsed across the finish line.
Geoff MeggsGUEST
17:42
Caroline Finley, well, whatever, she was in cabinet, you know, Stephen Harper kind of connection.
Geoff MeggsGUEST
17:46
But it's been, uh, one disaster after another.
Mike McDonaldGUEST
17:49
Well, and I think the context too is, you know, uh, the caucus got rid of John Rustad last December because they felt they needed a better chance to win the election.
Ezra LevantHOST
6:51
Do they mean just people who advertise on Rebel News? Cabinet ministers of the government of Canada organizing a boycott of a news company's advertisers because we have a difference of opinion? Think about that for a minute.
Ezra LevantHOST
7:03
Imagine if Stephen Harper's cabinet ministers had signed a letter telling Canadians to boycott the Toronto Star's advertisers.
Ezra LevantHOST
7:11
It's crazy.
Ezra LevantHOST
7:12
I'll go on a bit.
Cory MorganHOST
32:18
Joe Mills pointing out if the Liberals rescinded any anti-oil and gas policies.
Cory MorganHOST
32:23
No, but Stephen Harper didn't get that much for pipelines built either.
Cory MorganHOST
32:27
The mess that came with Trans Mountain, for example.
Cory MorganHOST
32:30
That was already bunged up in red tape and a bunch of battles before Justin Trudeau got in there and really screwed it up and made it worse because Harper didn't want to get up and say, look, this is federal jurisdiction.
Nora LoretoHOST
18:26
Anyway, Alex Koch notes that currently the only way to have citizenship revoked is if someone was found to have engaged in fraud or false representation to get citizenship.
Nora LoretoHOST
18:36
Though the law was briefly expanded by Stephen Harper for people who are convicted of treason, terrorism or espionage.
Nora LoretoHOST
18:43
Trudeau revoked this change in 2017.
Nora LoretoHOST
18:46
Sija did not respond to requests for comment, but I think we can all see pretty easily how Israel, through Sija, is trying to create harsher punishment for people who they can say are Hamas.
Leigh CuryerGUEST
1:13
And we love that because we are about developing an environmentally elite project.
Leigh CuryerGUEST
1:21
We are finally into construction and yes we had a wonderful event on August the 13th attended by Premier Scott Moe, former Prime Minister Mr Stephen Harper, Buckley Ballinger who's the Secretary of State on behalf of the Federal Government and local Indigenous leaders including Glen McCullum who's the president of Métis Nation Saskatchewan.
Leigh CuryerGUEST
1:49
Incredible turnout.
Leigh CuryerGUEST
1:49
We also had around 40 community members who'd come up the night before and stayed at our camp, participated in the groundbreaking ceremony.
Mark CrippsPANELIST
11:49
And e- every time Trump says something like, you know, "Canada relies on us for military protection," he's absolutely fucking right.
Mark CrippsPANELIST
11:55
Like we have, we have been laggards, and it goes back to, you know, the worst of the worst was Stephen Harper.
Mark CrippsPANELIST
12:02
Sorry, conservatives, but he cut the defense budget down to the lowest it ever was in the history of the post-Second World War.
Mark CrippsPANELIST
12:10
Then, you know, the liberals came in.
Mike Le CouteurHOST
29:30
Zita Astravas, the former advisor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and now the vice president of Wellington Advocacy.
Mike Le CouteurHOST
29:36
Jamey Ellerton, principal at Conaptus, and he worked for Minister Jason Kenney during the years of the Harper government.
Mike Le CouteurHOST
29:43
We also have former interim national director of the NDP, Karl Bélanger.
Mike Le CouteurHOST
29:47
He's here in studio with us.

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Mike Le CouteurHOST
46:20
They, they can, uh, and I'm going, and I mean this pun, they can bridge that gap, Gordie Howe Bridge, where of course there's a vulnerability there for the prime minister in where he was and, and wasn't forthcoming with it.
Mike Le CouteurHOST
46:31
But Zita, to the point that, um, Marie's making, this is a coalition that has been, the Conservatives are, that, that has been difficult to keep together.
Mike Le CouteurHOST
46:39
Stephen Harper successfully did it.
Mike Le CouteurHOST
46:41
Uh, we've seen that, you know, uh, Andrew Scheer had a hard time keeping everybody in line.

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