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April 28, 2025
Member Ceci: “This act binds the government of Canada.” You know, I don’t think that’s accurate. I don’t think the government of Canada can be bound by a bill that’s here and won’t be bound by a bill that’s in this Legislature because they supersede the Legislature in regard to issues that are in their purview.
April 21, 2022
Member Ceci: Many northeast residents who didn’t have hail insurance got no help from the UCP, and the residents who did have that insurance got the runaround from their insurance companies for months. There are families and businesses in northeast Calgary, we’ve just heard, who still haven’t gotten their claims paid out two years later. Of course, the UCP took the side of their friends in the insurance industry. Premiums are soaring even while some families are repairing the damage out of their own pockets. Why did this Premier and the UCP government refuse to help the people of northeast Calgary and choose, instead, to help their wealthy friends in the insurance industry?
Mr. Kenney: What in the world is he talking about, Mr. Speaker? People buy insurance. When they incur damage, it’s validated, and they get their payments. They get their benefits. That’s exactly the legal obligation of the insurance firms. Is the member now suggesting that the taxpayer should be forced to insure losses for people who do not acquire insurance? Then why would anybody buy insurance? It’s called moral hazard. It would impose billions of costs, of dollars on taxpayers. I guess that’s the socialist way.
March 9, 2022
Member Ceci: Last year the Premier ducked responsibility for public health decisions and said, quote, these decisions are better taken locally. In fact, he encouraged municipalities to implement their own public health measures due to the diverse needs across the province. Now the UCP government is contradicting themselves and taking the decision-making power away from municipalities through their changes to the Municipal Government Act. To the minister: why the flip-flop?
Mr. McIver: Well, Mr. Speaker, COVID has been going on for two years, and we just heard the NDP admit that they haven’t learned a thing in the last year and a half. On this side of the House we have, and consequently new information leads to new ideas. The fact is that there wasn’t 90 per cent of people vaccinated a year and a half ago, there wasn’t 65 per cent of people with two vaccinations a year and a half ago. This is ending. The only people I know unhappy that COVID might be ending are the folks across the aisle. The rest of Alberta can’t wait. Get onboard, folks.
March 9, 2022
Member Ceci: Given that this government has repeatedly shown disdain for municipalities, their democratically elected leaders, the voters who elected them – and, in fact, the Member for Lac Ste. Anne-Parkland recently described municipalities as, quote, the children of the province and said that it’s time for someone to get spanked – and given that this is the same government that constantly warns of federal government overreach but is now doing the exact same thing they accused Justin Trudeau of doing, why does this government constantly contradict itself at every step, providing further proof that Albertans just can’t trust them?
Mr. McIver: We do listen to municipalities. I’m going to blow my horn here, and I might regret this, but in fact, Mr. Speaker, I was the one called talented and lovely by the municipal leaders this morning. I was the one called their BFF several times in the bear-pit session. Now, I am far from perfect, but I can assure you that we listen to municipalities.
Municipal Affairs Minister Ric McIver got an icy reception when he spoke at a conference for local leaders on Wednesday.
November 30, 2021
Member Irwin: We didn’t get good explanations when it came to the deindexing of AISH. We didn’t get good explanations when it came to the cuts to SFAA. In fact, we got denial and deflection and – what’s the word? I won’t point because that’s not parliamentary, but, you know . . .
Member Ceci: Run around?
Member Irwin: Run around: that’s not quite the word I was looking for. If it comes to me I’ll . . .
Ms Pancholi: Obfuscation?
Member Irwin: Obfuscation: that’s a very good one. Obfuscation. Impressive. You must be good at Scrabble. Obfuscation.
June 2, 2021
Mr. Madu: Sadly, there was a time in this province where the NDP were elected because we allowed ourselves to be divided. That would not have happened. . .
Mr. Sabir: That was the democratic decision of Albertans.
Mr. Madu: . . . if we had not divided ourselves. The NDP would not have had the opportunity to govern this province.
Member Ceci: You weren’t here.
Mr. Madu: But this is a matter that we – I can understand why they are heckling right now. They don’t like to hear that. The Member for Calgary-Buffalo and the Member for Calgary-McCall are heckling me. They don’t like to hear that, but that is the blunt truth of what happened in 2015. That is why I have committed my time to making sure that that doesn’t happen again. Oh, yes, I am confident. I trust the people of Alberta. I am confident about that, that the people of Alberta will not entrust their government to a government that would pursue interests that are against their own interests. It won’t happen.
March 23, 2021
Member Ceci: Given that an Albertan wrote, “Your MLAs travelling outside of Alberta during a public health emergency proves there is no emergency,” and given that another Albertan wrote asking, “Why wear masks . . . when MLAs put their toes over the cliff edge?” to the Premier: do you see now how your actions of your own members have undercut the public health orders at a critical period when we need the community to buy in to stop the spread? The vast majority of Albertans understand and follow public health orders. Why did your MLAs and staff choose not to?
Mr. Jason Nixon: Mr. Speaker, again, it’s extremely rich coming from the Official Opposition, the NDP, trying to say that the government isn’t being transparent about an issue when the Premier had a press conference about it. That member is part of a caucus that is still hiding, admitted to by their leader, the results of a sexual harassment investigation. Is that member part of that investigation? Is the Member for Edmonton-Beverly-Clareview part of that investigation? Which member is part of that investigation? [interjections] If you want transparency inside the House – I see they’re very upset about it – stand up and tell us who was being investigated and what the results of it were. [interjections]
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Hoo boy. Okay, let's talk about this. This is a subject that Jason Nixon likes to yell about whenever someone starts asking questions that he really doesn't like. First of all, this is blatantly making allegations against other members, or getting pretty darn close. At the very least it's language of a nature likely to cause disorder. And the Speaker says nothing about it, as usual. So two NDP MLAs had complaints of sexual misconduct levelled against them in and possibly after 2015 ("since 2015" is the confusing wording that I've seen used). They were investigated by two external lawyers, recommendations were implemented, but the MLAs weren't named in order to protect the privacy of the complainants (which is a valid concern and one that the name-and-shame crowd often forgets). There are Edmonton Journal stories about it here and here . I've never heard anything to suggest that the matter wasn't resolved or that it wasn't taken seriously. I don't run in party circles, though, so I'm going by what I read in the news. Anyway, my point is that this is a serious issue that WAS (as far as I know) taken seriously, and it's in the public knowledge. Jason Nixon trying to use it to desperately distract from his government's own failures is really fucking gross, and he does it all the time, though this was the first time I've seen him attempt to pin blame on specific members, which in my opinion is clearly crossing a line, but hey, I'm not the Speaker. Meanwhile it never seems to come up that a former UCP/Wildrose MLA was charged with and convicted of sexual interference, resigning his seat when the charges became public. You can read about that here . At least one party seems to understand that dealing with sexual harassment of any kind is not fodder to be flung across the Chamber floor. TL/DR Jason Nixon is a shitty person and the Speaker should do something about his antics.
June 10, 2020
Member Ceci: You know, the first thing I’d like to start with is that I think this bill is misnamed. I think it should be called Not a Fixed Date for Budget and a Lack of Transparency in Delivering the Budget because that’s what we’re really seeing here.
