The journalist and former BC finance minister Carole Taylor discusses her new CHEK television program BC Legends, her career in public service, and more, with Joseph Planta.

Text of introduction by Joseph Planta:

I am Planta: On the Line, in Vancouver, British Columbia, at TheCommentary.ca.

Carole Taylor is one of those guests who needs no introduction. She’s well-known in this city, this province, and perhaps across the country too, serving with a number of organisations and institutions (BC’s minister of finance 2005-2008, chancellor of Simon Fraser University, and Victoria College, the University of Toronto), and was elected to Vancouver’s City Council twice, and to the British Columbia Legislature. All this, and the number of boards she’s chaired (Vancouver’s Port Authority, Vancouver Board of Trade, the CBC/Radio Canada, BC Business Council, the Federal Economic Advisory Council, the Trilateral Commission), she’s chaired have yielded a C.V. that anybody would want for themselves. All this after a successful career at the CBC and CTV, where she was one of the first hosts of Canada AM. She’s returned to broadcasting this fall with a new series on CHEK, BC Legends. It’s a 26-part series of interviews she’s conducted with notable, memorable, and important figures in the province. Among them, Rick Hansen, the late Joe Segal, Iona Campagnolo, Shushma Datt, and Beverly McLachlin. It was while watching on a Thursday night a few weeks back that I wondered aloud on the Twitter, why she should be interviewed, being a legend herself. And thanks to her son Chris Taylor, senior correspondent with Reuters, he helped get us together for this interview we taped last week. We talk about the new show, interviewing, and just a few of the aspects of her storied life and career, and more. BC Legends is on Thursday nights at 9.30 pm, and it’s available on the CHEK+ app. Please welcome to the Planta: On the Line program, Carole Taylor; Ms. Taylor, good morning.

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