#rob miyashiro

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May 6, 2025

Member Miyashiro: I ask the minister: was anyone consulted prior to making the decision to cut funding, or was it just another deliberate, unilateral decision to inflict pain on people with disabilities and their families?

The Speaker: I just want to provide a caution to the hon. member. In the last two questions you made an allegation that the government would intentionally bully people, that they would inflict pain on people. I think that’s getting very close to the level of a point of order.

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May 14, 2025

Member Miyashiro: Given that high-wall mining involves mining coal seams of an open-pit mine, meaning there needs to be an open pit before high-wall mining can begin ... to the minister: if there’s no open-pit mining and there’s no technical way to extract eastern slopes coal without it, does he agree that there cannot be any open-pit coal mining on the eastern slopes?

Mr. Jean: We’re going to do a great job on protecting Albertans, the water, the air, the animals, human life.

But what Albertans want to know is – he started off with Calgary, then he went to Edmonton, then he went to Winnipeg; he went Liberal, he went NDP, then he went Liberal, maybe Alberta Party in there, Mr. Speaker. Now, apparently, if you go orange, purple, and red, it makes this yucky-looking brown colour. I’m just concerned about that generally, and I think Albertans want to know: what does he actually stand for? We just want to know before going into the summer break, and I’d really like to know, too.

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May 14, 2025

Member Miyashiro: This government claims Alberta’s coal modernization initiative will ban open-pit mining in the foothills and keep selenium out of our water. It will prohibit mountaintop removal mining and require that any new mining must use techniques that prevent adding selenium to waterways. Albertans remain skeptical. They’ve seen the realities with Teck in B.C., who spent billions to remove selenium from water and failed. They know the coal is under the mountaintops and the best way to get at it is to dig it out. To the minister of energy: what is the difference between mountaintop removal mining and open-pit mining?

Mr. Jean: I thank the member for the question, Mr. Speaker. Albertans are very curious and are concerned, and that’s why they know that this government is going to do a better job than the former NDP government was trying to do and certainly better than the B.C. government is doing with coal mining in B.C.

What Albertans really want to know is: where is No-show Nenshi, Mr. Speaker? They’ve been looking everywhere for him. You know, we’ve seen him in the past. He’s been wearing a Calgary jersey, he’s been wearing an Edmonton jersey, and now he’s wearing a Winnipeg jersey. We don’t know where he is. We’re asking if he could actually show up for work because I know Albertans need him.

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April 21, 2026

Member Miyashiro: Hey, let’s look at something first. Let’s talk about these 91 seats that the members opposite keep throwing out. They keep saying: well, this person said we need 91, and this person said we need 91, and this person said we need 91. Ninety-one is, like, the new six seven for them.

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April 15, 206

Member Miyashiro: Cheater: a person that acts dishonestly or acts unfaithfully to gain an unfair advantage or deceive others. Gerrymandering: the manipulation of electoral boundaries so as to favour one party or class. While the judge and chair of the boundaries commission appointed by the Premier performed like a judge, in a fair and unbiased way, it seems that two of the three UCP-selected members of the commission are cheaters engaging in gerrymandering. Let’s look at Lethbridge.

The Speaker: Hon. member, I’m going to let you start your statement over again without accusing somebody of breaking the law. You need to start over.

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March 30, 2026

Member Miyashiro: Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Given that this government’s excessive increases to the education property tax effectively limits the ability of municipalities to increase property taxes as necessary, because property owners mainly look at the bottom line of their tax invoice and will blame the municipality for large increases in the education tax . . .

Some Hon. Members: Hmm.

Member Miyashiro: . . . and given that Municipal Affairs’ goal is to explore ways to limit excessive property tax increases, when it comes to property tax increases, does the minister hold municipalities to a different standard than their own provincial government?

The Speaker: We don’t need the music.

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December 3, 2025

Member Miyashiro: These are agencies that serve hundreds of people with disabilities, and they’re afraid to speak out against ADAP because they’re afraid of the vindictiveness of the government across the aisle. You know, Madam Speaker, I don’t want to say this because I know that the Government House Leader will get angry about it, so I’m not going to say it the way I wanted to.

Mr. Schow: That’s a point of order right there, Madam Speaker, because he’s presupposing what I may or may not do, under 23(h), (i), and (j).

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November 24, 2025

Member Miyashiro: After hearing the last two debates from my colleagues across the aisle, I just kind of threw my stuff out the window because I just want to address a few things. Where do I start? I have limited time. One of the interesting things is that the Member for Calgary-Glenmore, that is proposing this amendment, actually is an expert in renewable energy, but you know, let’s just call that down and make fun of that. She actually has expertise in this bill, which she authored.

Ms de Jonge: Do you want to hire her boss?

Member Miyashiro: Oh, yeah. Yeah. Sure. Why don’t you have a debate with her personally? Let’s see who wins that one. It would be pretty ugly.