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Mr. Schow: Mr. Speaker, the member is right. An apology is owed but to the public for the calibre, the poor calibre, of opposition that His Majesty has in this Chamber. This is the level of questions that come across here.

Member Tejada: Right? One of my favourite characters on that show, Don Draper, has a great quote. Curiously, this show is also set in the ’60s, around the time of the civil rights movement, when folks in the United States were organizing to get the vote and to not be disenfranchised despite the many movements around them to do it. In this quote Don Draper is referring to how entities can manipulate audiences and groups of people away from what they care about and from what they’re facing in the moment by distracting them, and that quote is: if you don’t like what’s being said, change the conversation. This government is certainly trying very hard to change the channel on what Albertans are asking for.

Member Tejada: I’m happy to speak to Bill 204. I will say that I think the only government overreach here is what is proposed in this bill. What this bill does is interfere with and sabotage the work that’s being done by communities calling for national park urban designation. In the long history of this government making sticking it to Trudeau a personality, what this bill proposes is more performative heel-digging as grandstanding when it comes to the federal government.

Ms Renaud: That’s not true. That is incorrect. The Member for Calgary-Klein thinks it’s a good idea that they changed the payment dates and actually believes, according to his heckle, that they did change the payment dates to help Albertans, when we know it is not true.

Mr. Jeremy Nixon: Colleagues, Albertans are noticing. If you take a moment to remove yourself from this building, the media circus, the petty political nonsense, you will hear Albertans sending messages of approval of the direction of this government. Albertans approve of moving beyond COVID. They approve of our pro-growth, pro-enterprise economic agenda. They approve of our fiscal prudence. The opposition won’t want to hear this, but if an election were held today, the United Conservative Party would be re-elected with a majority. Friends, if we stay the course, if we remain united and we continue to focus on the priorities of Albertans, this momentum will continue through to 2023, and Albertans will reward this government with a renewed mandate to continue to build this province.

Ms Sweet: Well, you know, windmills aren’t bad. They’ve been in Pincher Creek for a really long time, way before us. If the hon. member likes to cut comments, I’d love to see him stand up and actually say something on the record about what he believes diversification in his government would look like instead of just, you know, commenting across the floor because the reality of it is that Albertans are hurting right now. As much as I appreciate that the government likes to think that it’s great to heckle about that, the reality is that nothing has been done. My neighbours can’t pay their mortgages right now; 1 in 5 Albertans can’t pay their mortgages right now, and we’re standing here talking about $4.7 billion to corporations. What are you doing for Albertans besides heckling the opposition?  

Ms Hoffman: . . . when it’s clearly failed the people of this province. And the Member for Calgary-Klein continues to yell, “Hear, hear.” He’s so proud of the fact that under his watch the government has cost Albertans, including Albertans living in Calgary-Klein, 50,000 full-time jobs prepandemic and, we know, many, many more since the pandemic.

Mr. Jeremy Nixon: There is a line in the movie Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2: he may have been your father, boy, but he wasn’t your daddy. We can’t be parents in name only. We need to be there with our kids, in the highs and the lows, to expose the lie of isolation that drives so many of our kids into self-destructive paths.