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.

Point of Order: Allegations Against A Member
October 29, 2008, afternoon session

The Speaker: If this hurts the feelings of other members, then I want other members to know that when a member gets up and says that a minister doesn't care, if you take the same principle of application, then I'd have to rule that kind of a statement out because some minister would come to me and say their feelings are hurt, and they're sensitive. Or: the minister should resign. Well, holy mackerel. Do you think that minister doesn't feel sensitive about that and go home at night and kick the door in? Would I have to then lead to ousting the member who raised it in the House? Or: the minister is out of touch. I mean, if you're going to talk sensitivity in here, okay. Fair game. You know, I'm a teddy bear and a cuddle of love, but we can have a lot of sensitivity. Let's understand that there sometimes . . . [interjection] Yeah. Thank you very much. You sit down.

There are always going to be times in here, and we also all know what depending on the day of the week and whatever circumstances happen and whatever the issue is that the person is raising the question on or whatever the issue is that the person is responding to the question on, there may be motivations in there that none of us are appreciative of. Human beings are human beings. It doesn't hurt to have a little emotion sometimes, too, as long as you don't hurt anybody with respect to that emotion.

Appropriation (Supplementary Supply) Act, 2008
December 1, 2008, evening session

Mr. Mason: Thanks very much, Mr. Speaker. I’m happy to stand and speak to second reading of Bill 51.

An Hon. Member: Put it in a poem.

Mr. Mason: Yeah. Before I leave this place, you know, Mr. Speaker, I’ll rap something but not in the meantime. It’s a good way to embarrass your son in front of his friends.