Stephen Harper
Former Prime Minister of CanadaWikipedia
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Oct 31, 2026
Jas JohalHOST
Dimitri Pantazopoulos is one of the sharpest strategists and pollsters in the country.
Jas JohalHOST
He steered winning campaigns for Stephen Harper, for Christy Clark, for Jason Kenney, for Doug Ford.
Jas JohalHOST
And this time he was inside the B.C. conservative war room.
Jas JohalHOST
Today he takes us behind the curtain to find out what really happened.
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Jas JohalHOST
He is president of Yorkville Strategies, one of the chief strategists behind the B.C. Conservatives.
Jas JohalHOST
He worked the war room.
Jas JohalHOST
He has also worked in many war rooms and steered campaigns for Stephen Harper, Christy Clark, Jason Kenney, and Doug Ford.
Jas JohalHOST
A big, big election, of course, on Saturday with repercussions.
Danny JonesHOST
They don't control the territory, but the government in Canada has given them access to extract the resources.
Kevin AnnettGUEST
It's called the Harper government, the Tory government under Stephen Harper, and then the Liberal government under Justin Trudeau, all... signed into law this thing called the Foreign Investment Protection Act, FIPA.
Kevin AnnettGUEST
And FIPA allows China to buy up the whole economy.
Kevin AnnettGUEST
It removes all limits on Chinese investments.
Brad GushueGUEST
And yeah, so he's into politics.
Brad GushueGUEST
He's the next Stephen Harper, I guess.
Brad GushueGUEST
But yeah, funny story.
Brad GushueGUEST
Yeah.
Brad GushueGUEST
Stephen Harper, his office called our team right after we had been presented our Olympic gold medal, or actually just before, I should say.
Brad GushueGUEST
And I got a call and I guess his assistant said, can you hold for Prime Minister Stephen Harper? And I said, absolutely.
Brad GushueGUEST
And he came on and he knows a lot about curling.
Brad GushueGUEST
He's a curling fan.
TwosHOST
He had some great thoughts.
Alan AdamSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I call upon the Carney government that if you continue to go down this reckless path of the Harper's Animas bills, Because we, the people, have spoken in 2015, when the ominous bill was passed, that we no longer hold the Conservative government here in power.
Alan AdamSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
If this is the course that the liberal government wants to go, then we will start sitting down and talking about changes in the regime again.
Alan AdamSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And maybe we will go nationwide with NDP first time in history.
Alan AdamSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Because we, the people, have spoken in 2015 when the ominous bill was passed.
TwosHOST
The ominous bill.
TwosHOST
So this guy didn't like Stephen Harper and his ominous bills.
TwosHOST
Okay.
Jamil JivaniGUEST
But part of it is there's a generational change.
Jamil JivaniGUEST
There are people who want us to continue being the party of the Mulroonies, the party of Stephen Harper.
Jamil JivaniGUEST
That was over a decade ago.
Jamil JivaniGUEST
Things have changed.
Jamil JivaniGUEST
I'm 38 years old.
Jamil JivaniGUEST
I was not a cabinet minister in the Harper days.
Jamil JivaniGUEST
In fact, I could barely vote when Stephen Harper started in politics, right? So I have a different view of this country and a different set of hopes for what our future might look like.
Carmen ChaiHOST
But having said that, is there room in the tent for all those types of conservatives? Or where do you see that going? Is there different? What comes of that?
Lisa RaittGUEST
I don't criticize him for wanting to expand, diversify and reshore relationships with Europe and different trading partners.
Lisa RaittGUEST
I mean, my government under Stephen Harper, we negotiated a lot of those trade deals and Justin Trudeau's government put them into place.
Lisa RaittGUEST
And now Carney actually wants to action on them.
Lisa RaittGUEST
And I'm okay with that, but that doesn't mean we're replacing the trade with the United States.
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Paul McLeodHOST
And I don't, that doesn't sound that good to an American ear, but it's a very different system in Canada with multiple parties.
Paul McLeodHOST
Like to put that in perspective.
Paul McLeodHOST
Our last couple prime ministers, Justin Trudeau and Stephen Harper, they were winning majority governments and none of them even got to 40%, let alone 50%.
Paul McLeodHOST
So Kearney is in extremely comfortable territory right now.
Mike SmythHOST
Okay, Rachel Siegel on the line.
Mike SmythHOST
Rachel is a former director in the Stephen Harper government, former senior director of the B.C.
Mike SmythHOST
Liberals, also a longtime political strategist in B.C. Rachel, thank you.
Rachael SegalGUEST
Thanks, Mike.
Sean SpeerHOST
The similarities between Trudeau era policies on one hand and the E.B. government's kind of posture and preferences on the other hand make made former Premier Eby a kind of useful stand-in for former Prime Minister Trudeau.
Sean SpeerHOST
And in that sense, one of the reasons you see so much enthusiasm, more enthusiasm for the incoming Dirksen government, at least amongst conservatives than I've seen, you know, almost since 2006 when Stephen Harper was first elected, reflects something bigger and more fundamental, like that there's almost a kind of cosmic justice that they were able to finally prosecute and win the case against, call it Trudeauism, or in the BC context, Ebyism.
Sean SpeerHOST
Does that line of thinking resonate at all, Amanda?
Amanda GalbraithPANELIST
I don't know if I buy the prosecuting Trudeau stuff.
Pam PalmaterGUEST
It's like, let's just wipe out the Indian Act.
Pam PalmaterGUEST
Harper era.
Pam PalmaterGUEST
We want to speed up resource extraction.
Pam PalmaterGUEST
Hey, Let's pass legislation to abolish the Indian Act.
Desmond ColeHOST
And I'm going to quote him here.
Desmond ColeHOST
The suggestion of reforming, potentially abolishing, and fully modernizing governance is that a process co-developed needs to be put in place, and the federal government is open to that process.
Desmond ColeHOST
So Pam, getting rid of the Indian Act and casting aside Indigenous and treaty rights obligations has long been a goal of the Canadian government, but it hasn't been openly talked about since Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper's day.
Desmond ColeHOST
Why do you think Carney is entertaining Wabkanu's idea?
John MooreHOST
All I'm telling you is the conservatives laughed when he became the leader, they laughed at the prospect of him actually leading the Liberals into an election, and then he cleaned their clocks.
John MooreHOST
And then he disposed, after having disposed of Stephen Harper, he churned his way through two leaders.
John MooreHOST
And frankly, even though Pierre Polyev was going to eat him for breakfast, when Justin Trudeau left, he sealed the deal for Pierre Polyev's future possible insignificance.
John MooreHOST
The people who hated Chow or continue to hate Chow never actually process the fact that she could win reelection and do it by with, you know, more than 50 percent of the vote.
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