The Quotable Alberta Hansard

a very serious look at the dignified proceedings of the Alberta Legislature and the things said inside it.

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Question (period, aha) please: where do you get these quotes from? Is there a transcript of the legislature sessions?

Good question! Yes, there is. You can find them all here, going back to 1972, when Alberta's Hansard was created:

https://www.assembly.ab.ca/assembly-business/transcripts/transcripts-by-type

There are also Hansard transcripts for Legislature committees, though I don't post content from them as much.

Every province and territory, the House of Commons, and the Senate has a Hansard that you can look at if so inclined.

I do some light editing, like if I take a quote from the midst of someone's speech, I'll add their name before it, though in the transcript it only appears at the beginning. If I want to cut something down for length I'll put in ellipses, and I remove a lot of generic "Thank you, Mr. Speaker"s and the like, again, to keep post length relatively manageable.

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May 12, 2026

Ms Chapman: I also have a list of other awesome portmanteaus. I’m just going to give you my top three, and then I’ll get back into the bill. It’s hangry, frenemy, and spork. Those are the favourite ones of all time.

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May 12, 2026

Member Gurinder Brar: When this government talks about presenting both sides or enforcing neutrality through legislation, I have some serious questions. I want this government and this minister and this Premier to tell me: what are the both sides of residential schools? What are the both sides of genocide? What are the both sides of fascism? The role of education is not to sanitize the truth, Mr. Speaker. It is to teach the students how to face the truth. That is how we build a better future.

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May 12, 2026

Member Ceci: I can tell everyone here that the cheddar cheese appetizer at the Ranchmen’s Club is the very best cheddar cheese in the world.

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May 12, 2026

Mr. Getson: The opposition, however, doesn’t get it. They’ve called me a separatist, amongst other things, so to them: DILLIGAF.

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May 7, 2026

Mr. Schmidt: The only other thing that I want to say before I close is that I am personally very upset that we are adopting daylight saving time now because I was robbed of an hour of sleep this spring, and I will never get that hour back. You know, I know that the members opposite have an easy time catching up with the sleep that they lose while sitting here and not debating bills, but the rest of us are owed an hour of sleep, Mr. Speaker, and I wish the Premier would give us that back.

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May 7, 2026

Mr. Schmidt: Time began to be standardized in the modern world in the mid-1850s. Up until the 1850s, Madam Speaker, every community kept its own time by measuring when the sun was at its highest point overhead. That meant that if you were travelling from Edmonton to Calgary, for example, the time in Edmonton was slightly different from the time in Calgary because the time the sun is directly overhead on any given day is a different time in Calgary than it is in Edmonton. That was how humans kept time around the world, by directly observing . . .

Mr. Nally: Time change was World War I.

Mr. Schmidt: If the minister wants to continue to prove his wrongness, I guess he has the right to close debate at the end of this session. I would appreciate it if he kept his wrongness to himself for the next hour or so.

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April 23, 2026

Member LaGrange: What this legislation does is create an additional optional pathway, one that expands access, reduces wait times, and gives Alberta patients more choice. It recognizes that many Albertans want to take a more active role and responsibility in managing their health care.

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May 11, 2026

Mr. Dach: I’ve got a lot more points to talk about.

Mr. Williams: Will the member accept an intervention at this time?

Mr. Dach: As I mentioned, Madam Speaker, any form of opposition to the UCP is viewed as a threat. I mean, this government is so threatened that they apply time allocation to bills like this Bill 28, yet they still want to go ahead and try to use up our time, a limited-time debate, by intervening. That ain’t happening.

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May 11, 2026

Member Kayande: It also created some, like, really amazing conversations that I would have with some of my engineering colleagues when we would talk about the works of Jane Austen. Believe it or not, we actually did over lunchtime and talked about our favourite books and least favourite. Yeah. I mean, Mansfield Park is probably not something you need to read.

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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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May 7, 2026

Mr. Schmidt: When I was talking about the creation of time zones, the minister kept chirping: World War I, World War I. I’d be interested to know which side he was cheering for in World War I, but that’s a separate point entirely. What he was implying was that time zones weren’t actually created until World War I, but he was wrong on that point, as he is wrong on many points.

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May 7, 2026

Mr. Eggen: In regard to the municipal affairs bill, I didn’t get much of a chance to debate on it, but the part that I find most egregious about this – and it has not been debated sufficiently – is the minister’s ability to reach into libraries and to control what books are being used, to ban books, and to set regulation on libraries. Well, I can tell you, Mr. Speaker, that I use my library card every single week, and I make the choices of what books I am choosing to sign out and for my family and for my grandchildren as well. This is not a prop; this is a library card. Many of these ministers, many of these people over here probably don’t even know what it is because they haven’t darkened the door of a library except to go in and ban books.

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May 6, 2026

Mr. Schmidt: What was I saying, Madam Speaker? I don’t remember. You know, the fun thing about speaking in the Legislature is that everything is written down in Hansard, so when I ask myself what the heck was it that came out of my mouth last night, tomorrow morning I’ll be able to look it up on the Internet and find out and try to make any sense of this.

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May 6, 2026

Mr. Schmidt: What’s important for everybody to remember is that parliamentary secretaries are not automatically part of cabinet. They don’t participate in those governing positions. I remember my friend Brian Mason describing parliamentary secretaries, I guess, as hood ornaments on the car of government, and I haven’t seen anything from parliamentary secretaries here to dispel me of that understanding.

Mr. Nally: Ours actually work.

Mr. Schmidt: Well, I hear the Member for Morinville-St. Albert say that his actually do work. I would believe it, I guess, if I actually saw cabinet ministers doing work, but I have yet to see that from most of the cabinet ministers who are sitting across the way.

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May 6, 2026

Mr. Schmidt: I have seven minutes left, and I promise you that I’m not the only one who’s going to feel like this is an eternity, members, Madam Speaker. I’m going to make sure that all of us suffer as much as I do over the next seven minutes.

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May 5, 2026

Mr. Schmidt: I take issue with this bill labelling the new time zone that Alberta will be on as Alberta time. Nothing could be further from the truth. We will be on Saskatchewan time. For a government who has consistently and repeatedly stood up over the last seven years in this House and talked about how Alberta has a distinct and unique culture in Canada, for us to give up our own time zone to be on the Saskatchewan time zone is an affront to the people of Alberta. It’s disrespectful to the unique culture that we have in this province.

An Hon. Member: It’s about time you stand up for Alberta.

Mr. Schmidt: Yeah. I’m standing up for Alberta. I wish the members opposite would do so and keep Alberta on its own time zone rather than caving to the Saskatchewan time zone lobby.