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May 11, 2026

Member Kayande: To the people of Alberta: most of us know, because most of us grew up under a world-class education system before this government tried to destroy it, that no, the world is not flat; yes, vaccines will save your life; yes, measles is dangerous. No, the world is not 5,000 years old, and it’s going to be very hard to learn to be a petroleum engineer if you thought it was.

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March 31, 2026

Member Kayande: The other thing that I would like to talk about is alcohol. This is, of course, not entirely within the control of the Alberta government. I understand that. However, we are the only province in Canada right now that still allows the sale of American bourbon and the import of American bourbon.

Mr. Nixon: Hear, hear.

Member Kayande: I’m hearing some hear, hears on the other side. Look, I like bourbon, too. I detest Trump trying to make us the 51st state more.

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November 25, 2025

Member Kayande: This is an act that allows hunting on elk farms. My God, hunting on elk farms.[interjections] My goodness. Lots of cheers on the other side for hunting on elk farms. I don’t know a single hunter who would be proud . . .

Mr. Hunter: Right here.

Member Kayande: . . . of bagging an elk on an elk farm. Oh, the Member for Taber-Warner is really fired up about that. He wants to walk into a fenced pen, shoot an elk, and take it home. I have limited time, so I’m not going to go into that.

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March 25, 2025

Member Kayande: Just from my experience of watching traders being managed – I have fortunately never ever had to manage traders; thank goodness – you know, like, they’re sitting around and they’re sitting at their computer terminals, and you ask them: hey, what’s going on here? “Oh, hedging. We’re just hedging. There’s nobody here but us hedgers. We’re certainly not taking speculative risk.” Okay. Maybe.

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November 29, 2023

Member Kayande: I’m pleased to join the debate here on Bill 6, the Public Health Amendment Act, 2023. I want to tell a personal story about how this pandemic has impacted my family, and I want to talk a little bit about my reliance on public health to work so that I can keep my family safe. The pandemic, as all members of this House are, I’m sure, one hundred per cent aware, is like a tornado. It left some houses completely untouched and completely flattened others. By no means was my household the worst impacted, but this is a fact that continues to impact what’s going on in my family today.

My daughter is an extremely, extremely high-performing teenager. In 2020, when the pandemic opened, she received an award in her junior high school for student of the year... And in 2020 is when I came home from a company ski trip and felt the sniffles. This was in early March. By late March the entire household was ill except for my youngest son, who was 10 years old at the time. We got better eventually – it took us a long time – but she did not. It took us about six months more to get a diagnosis of long COVID for her. You know, one of the hurtful things about a long-COVID diagnosis is that there are people who falsely believe that long COVID is a function of vaccine injury. I guess that my child is kind of in a – being possibly one of the longest long-COVID pediatric patients in the world right now, she could not possibly have been injured by vaccines because vaccines were not available when she got sick.

The impact of this disease on her has been absolutely devastating. You know, she has extreme brain fog, fatigue, does her best, remains high performing, but is now a grade 12 student who will not graduate this year, may graduate next year, has a dream of becoming an engineer, and I don’t know how that’s going to happen because it is not possible for her to attend school with any sort of regularity...

I want to be one of those people that take care of her. I am responsible for her getting sick because I was the one that brought the disease home into our household. And what I want from public health, like, what I need from public health is more than what maybe other families need. I need to know –because she cannot get COVID again. She can’t. So I have to keep her safe; that is my job. I did not keep her safe in 2020, and my job is now to keep her safe as best as I can, and to do that I need information. I need to know expert opinion. I need to know what the experts are saying at any point in time even though the world desires to move on from the pandemic.

Good Lord, I want to move on, too, more than anything else. I want to move on and have this not be an issue in my life anymore, and I need the help of public health and public health experts to make that happen. I need to know: how much COVID is in the environment right now? How many other respiratory diseases are in the city right now? What does the status of absenteeism in her school look like right now? Those are what allow us to make decisions to keep me and my family safe.

So when I think about, you know, Bill 6, the Public Health Amendment Act, and what it’s going to do to reduce the ability of public health officials to communicate the critically important information that I need, Mr. Speaker, I’m worried, and I’m scared for myself. I’m here, you know, as a legislator, in a position of incredible privilege, but I also want to make sure that families like me get what they need from the public health infrastructure, the enviable public health infrastructure that we have built in this province. I’m begging this House: please don’t take that away.

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March 9, 2022

Mr. Schweitzer: When I talk about web 3.0, one of the things as well that I don’t hear much from the opposition ever about is when it comes to DeFi, deregulated finance, and the opportunity there is for Alberta to lead in this space. We’re talking about the DeFi space right now. We’re going to be creating our regulatory sandbox. We referenced, you know, cryptocurrencies in our throne speech. There’s an opportunity for Alberta as well in this space to continue to grow. I didn’t hear the NDP ever – ever – talk about this area of opportunity in Canada.

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November 25, 2020

Mr. Bilous: At the moment we see that there’s been a $25 million investment. My question is: will that continue to be an incremental investment over years, or what is the time frame around the $175 million commitment?

Mr. Schweitzer: I mean, this is something, a word that may come up every now and again. You may hear somebody on our side use the term “socialist” every now and again to maybe describe somebody on the other side. But I’ve heard that on the other side they may even describe that member as the capitalist amongst the socialists over there. I don’t know if that’s a better burn than anything else. I don’t know if that’s helpful. He may want to clip this for social media. I’ve heard that he may be the capitalist on the other side.

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November 25, 2020

Mr. Schweitzer: When I first was asked to take on this new role three months ago, I went into my first department meeting, and when in government you kind of get to hear the terminology. They said, “Oh, yeah, our SMERG is doing this, and SMERG is doing that,” and I had to kind of stop them and ask them what a SMERG was. It sounded a little bit like The Hobbit; you’re dealing with Smaug versus SMERG. Apparently, this is our relaunch grant. You have to kind of interpret, you know, government lingo and the mannerisms that they have.