Bill 7
Post-Secondary Learning Amendment Act, 2008
October 21, 2008, afternoon session

Mr. Chase: I have a degree of regret about the very slow progress associated with the urban campus. This is an area where myself and Roman Cooney could be dressed as cheerleaders with pompoms promoting the idea of that urban campus.

Ms Pastoor: Too visual. Too visual.

Mr. Chase: I know. I won't go further than that. [interjection] No, no. There are male cheerleaders, too. You know, we wear macho outfits, and our pompoms are very heavy and require a great effort.

Back in session!

The good folks at the Capital Notebook have scooped me (I'd been saving this one up all day! ALL DAY!), but it's too good not to keep sharing.

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Oil Sands Development Strategy
February 12, 2009, afternoon session

Mr. Stelmach: Mr. Speaker, again I just saw a complete disconnect from reality. There are 3 and a half million people in the province of Alberta. He wants Albertans – Albertans – to shoulder all of the blame, whatever it is, for greenhouse gas emissions and not look to the fact that 75 per cent of the emissions coming out of the States are coming from coal-fired generation. He wants us to pay for it? I don't think so. Let's get serious about this ongoing problem. The other thing – sorry, Mr. Speaker, to get going on this. However, let's invest in technology. Taking money out of the province, sending it to other countries in a kind of a wealth transfer – oh, by the way, giving the exchange . . . [interjection] Just selling the credits – remember, it's got to go through some authority – not able to even set the level of those credits. We're going to give it to the same bandits that put us into this economic recession? That's what he wants.