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February 24, 2026 Member Gurinder Brar: Let me visualize what fishing actually looks like. Imagine you’re opening the door, walking into the room, and seeing your favourite dish hanging. You try to eat it, and the hook gets stuck in the upper side of your mouth and pulls you up. While you are being pulled up, you are unable to breathe. A sharp knife is waiting outside to peel off your skin. This is how cruel fishing is, Madam Speaker, yet nobody speaks against it. You know why? Because no one can hear the screams of that fish because fish do not have vocal cords. Similarly, Madam Speaker, we as elected members are not just politicians. We are the vocal cords of the society, and this government motion is the chain that will strangle the vocal cords of this Assembly.

December 1, 2025 Mr. Kasawski: Rising with another opportunity to address Bill 11, American-style Health Statutes Amendment Act. Flipping through the pages, it was really great to get to page 43, charges and fees. Charges and fees: that’s what this bill is about. Do you pay, or do we pay together? With the UCP you always pay. That’s what you can count on. That’s a UCP guarantee.

November 25, 2025 Mr. van Dijken: We must remember that the notwithstanding clause is not an attack on the courts, nor is it a rejection of the important role judges play in interpreting our laws. Rather, it is a constitutional safeguard written intentionally into our Charter to ensure that ultimate decision-making power in a democracy remains with the people. The people choose the elected people to represent them. Judges are appointed; legislators are elected. Judges interpret the law; legislators create it. Both roles matter, but only one is ultimately answerable to the voters. The notwithstanding clause protects that balance. … Mr. Sabir: I’m a student of law, and that’s the first time I’ve heard that explanation, that this clause was put in the Constitution so that politicians can keep the judiciary in check. That’s the first time I’ve heard this explanation. I went to school for four years, three years of law school, articled after that for a year, and practised for three years. Never once did any legal scholar, anybody, ever mention that novel understanding of section 33. No one is better off listening to that explanation.

February 24, 2026 Ms Ganley: Mr. Speaker, they say they are bringing these in to make things more orderly because we had to sit for so long last time. It was six weeks. I mean, really, apparently this government considers doing their jobs a deep inconvenience to their lives. Six weeks: it’s nothing. And they brought in a bill because, again, they hadn’t done their jobs. They hadn’t gotten it drafted. They introduced it the Thursday before that last week, so that bill was before the House for three days. That’s how long we got to debate it. Not even. Two and a half days, basically. And that was a bill that slanted the playing field in favour of a separatist referendum that took rights away from other Albertans trying to have their referendum heard, that gave the Minister of Justice immunity from behaving unethically, and much, much more. I don’t want to belabour this point, but, Mr. Speaker, this is a government that fundamentally are trying to hide their actions from the public because they are embarrassed of their behaviour, as well they should be, and they want to limit debate. They want to have absolute power. They don’t want to have to hear from the legislative branch. They don’t want to have to hear from the judicial branch. They feel that they should get to rule as queens, and that is totally inappropriate. Checks and balances exist in our system for a reason.

December 1, 2025 Mr. Shepherd : The fact is that this is a government that, in the words of the Member for Cypress-Medicine Act, “replaces dialogue with dogma.” He claims that “under this government you’ll never be compelled to adopt an ideology as a condition of your livelihood.” Talk to anybody working in the public service under this government. Ask them how free they feel to express their opinion.

December 1, 2025 Ms Lovely: It seemed as though the entire world was against us. Those were dark, dark times, times Albertans will never forget in our collective memory. But in those difficult circumstances Albertans came together, as we always do.

February 24, 2026 Mr. Nenshi: Well, I’m excited, Mr. Speaker. In our first question period we got the Premier’s greatest hits. She blamed Trudeau, she blamed Rachel Notley, and now her latest: she’s blaming immigrants for everything, even for their own poverty.

December 1, 2025 Member Ceci: Motion 505; shrinkflation. I want to thank the MLA for Calgary-Buffalo for this motion. It’s evident that the MLA for Calgary-Buffalo – no, not Calgary-Buffalo; that’s me.

December 1, 2025 Ms Lovely: Just three years ago our province was in the midst of a tumultuous political storm that threatened Alberta’s very economic and social fabric. At the time the federal NDP-Liberal coalition government in Ottawa, led by then Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his friend NDP leader Jagmeet Singh, were doing all they could possibly do to choke off and ultimately destroy our province’s energy and agriculture sectors.

December 3, 2025 Mr. Kasawski : Thank you, Madam Chair. The tone of debate, thanks to your leadership and guidance of this House, is going exceedingly well. I expect it will maintain for moments more. On Bill 8, the Utilities Statutes Amendment Act, I have another amendment that I’d like to offer. The Chair: Hon. member, I should point out that flattery will get you everywhere … An Hon. Member: Just approve the amendment. The Chair : … and I will approve the amendment to be debated.

December 1, 2025 Ms Armstrong-Homeniuk : They can see that the government is focused on Albertans, not on winning favour with the intellectual class roaming the halls of UBC.

November 27, 2025 Mr. Jean: We have a goal of doubling our oil production by 2035, and that’s good for the planet.