James Moore
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3,438 appearances
16 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 15 Sep
James Moore’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He said, yeah, for all the obvious political reasons.
um to your to your question peter um examples of of positive stewardship and federalism i'll i'll inverse it we've been i've been we've been poking at premiers but here's a here's a good example of a premier gordon campbell and i don't think he gets nearly as much um praise for this and he's you know outside of british columbia and those who knew his stewardship of the provinces province former mayor of vancouver he ran for premier lost and he ran in one so he learned a lot more in the loss than he did in the victory he came back
He was elected in 2001, three majorities in a row.
But in his time as Premier of British Columbia, he worked with three different very personalities and very different political dynamics.
The dying days of the Jean-Claude Chies government, the shift of Paul Martin and the rise and fall of Paul Martin, and also dealing with Stephen Harper.
And throughout all three of them, there were minority and majority federal governments.
And dealing with very different prime ministers at very different stages of their political life cycles, managed to focus and say, how do I get along with this prime minister?
Through most of British Columbia's history, it was always good politics to just British Columbia, like Alberta is typically when there's a liberal federal government.
almost all of our history is just a fight with Ottawa.
Fighting with Ottawa is good politics.
Gordon Campbell, I think, probably permanently reversed that in the sense that he just found a way to get along with Creccia and Martin and Stephen Harper.
And it was a creative to be seat for the 2010 Olympics, massive new infrastructure projects, expanding SkyTrain to the airport and rebuilding the Coquihalla Highway and all kinds of projects that are beneficial because a premier decided that
goals-oriented politics, regardless of political team, is what the public really cares about.
And he was rewarded with back-to-back-to-back majority governments.
Yeah, all true.
Now, it's easy for me to say this as a British Columbia because we haven't had quite the same relationship with Ottawa that the province of Alberta has.
Alberta is right to be angry.
They're right to be frustrated.
They're right to be disappointed, in my view, that they have a product that enriches all of Canada, not just Alberta.
They're net payers massively to the federal treasury on a per capita basis than anybody else by a massive margin.
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