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198 Alberta Hansard February 26, 2004 Doomsday Scenarios February 26, 2004 Alberta Hansard 189 Legislative Assembly of Alberta the icy roads this morning, and I hope that they’ll all be safe going back home. Would you please rise and receive the warm welcome Title: Thursday, February 26, 2004 1:30 p.m. of the Assembly. Date: 2004/02/26 [The Speaker in the chair] The Speaker: The hon. Member for Edmonton-Castle Downs. head: Prayers Mr. Lukaszuk: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. With a great deal of pleasure I want to introduce two ladies that are visiting our Legisla- The Speaker: Good afternoon, and welcome. ture today. Actually, one is a temporary resident of the constituency Let us pray. As we conclude for this week our work in this of our Economic Development minister, and the other one is visiting Assembly, we renew our energies with thanks so that we may all the way from Poland. Their names are Teresa Chipiuk and Ms continue our work with the people in the constituencies we repre- Monika Grzybowska. I would ask them to rise and accept the warm sent. Amen. welcome of this Assembly. Please be seated. Thank you. head: Introduction of Guests The Speaker: The hon. Member for Edmonton-Calder. The Speaker: The hon. Minister of Seniors. Mr. Rathgeber: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It’s certainly a pleasure Mr. Woloshyn: Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I am very for me to rise and introduce to you and through you 16 adult pleased and honoured to introduce a group of 17 grade 6 students students from the Yellowhead Tribal College located in the from Seba Beach school. They are here on the normal visits to the Edmonton-Calder constituency. They’re from the adult upgrading Legislature. They are accompanied by their teacher, Mr. Dave program and the university/college transfer program along with their Hardman. I’d ask them all to stand and receive the warm welcome instructor, Linda Anderson. We met previous to the proceedings of the Assembly. today, and they had good questions regarding health care and regarding student financing, so I’m sure that they will find their visit The Speaker: The hon. Minister of Human Resources and Employ- here today instructive and very valuable. They are in the public ment. gallery. I’d ask them to rise and receive the warm welcome of this Assembly. Mr. Dunford: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We have today in the members’ gallery members of our ministry, all from the Human The Speaker: The hon. Member for Edmonton-Beverly-Clareview. Resources and Employment department. As I announce their names, I would ask them to stand, and then I would hope that you would Mr. Yankowsky: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise to introduce to join me in providing a warm welcome to all of them. First is you and through you unto this Assembly four constituents. This is Shannon Marchand, Darren Campbell, Cathy Clement, Percy a mother and her three daughters. The mother was here earlier in the Cummins, Cynthia Bourque, John Vellacott, Alice Leung, and Tina week with a school class and indicated that she would like to come Dragon. They’re here investigating what it is that we do over here back and bring her daughters to watch the proceedings of the House, in this building. So let’s give them a warm welcome. so they are here today. Kim Militsala and her daughters Aleia, Tara, and Tennille are here, seated in the public gallery. I would like them The Speaker: The hon. Minister of Revenue. to stand at this time and receive the very warm welcome of this Assembly. Mr. Melchin: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Along with my colleague it’s a pleasure of mine to introduce 11 guests from Alberta Revenue The Speaker: The hon. Member for Edmonton-Centre. who are visiting with us here today to also observe the proceedings of the Legislature and come to know better this part of the policy- Ms Blakeman: Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I’m just making within our administration. All are members of the invest- delighted today to introduce to you and through you to all members ment administration division, and I’d like them to stand as their of the Assembly two constituents and a special guest of theirs. names are read. Donna Kowal, Ivan Kupchenko, James DuBarry, Seated in the public gallery we have John and Bettie Zyp, who are Bev Campbell, Mercinth Campbell, Doreen Chandra, Rene Schmied, constituents, and with them today is Jonas Coyes, and that’s their Juliana Nash, Frank Marr, Yueyang Qiu, and Louise Shepherd. If grandson. He’s in grade 4, and he’s very interested in the political we could all give them a warm welcome. process. So I would ask them to please rise and accept the warm welcome of the Assembly. The Speaker: The hon. Member for Airdrie-Rocky View. The Speaker: The hon. Member for Edmonton-Rutherford. Ms Haley: Thank you so much, Mr. Speaker. It’s a real pleasure for me to be able to introduce to you and through you to members of the Mr. McClelland: Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Through you Assembly a group of individuals from my constituency. You know, to members of the Assembly it’s my pleasure to introduce Mr. I don’t often have visitors from my constituency, so it’s really neat Michael Ivey. Michael is a grade 11 student at Harry Ainlay high to have them here. The Airdrie Koinonia Christian school tries school, and he is here spending the day at the Legislature on a job every year to send a group of students up to Edmonton when we are shadow. I happen to have the privilege of having Michael shadow in session so that they can observe the Legislature and do a tour. me today. I would ask him to rise and accept the warm welcome of This year it’s a group of grade 10 students, and they are accompa- the members of the Assembly. nied by Mr. Dean Hughes. It’s just a small group; there are 14 students and Mr. Hughes with them. They managed to survive on The Speaker: The hon. Member for Edmonton-Manning. 190 Alberta Hansard February 26, 2004 Mr. Vandermeer: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today it’s my honour ly they go up. God, I can remember when the price of oil went down to introduce to you and through you to members of this Assembly to – what? – about $8 a barrel. Now it’s up to in excess of $30 a three people that are near and dear to me. I’d like to ask them to barrel. So things do come down, but incrementally and over the stand as I call out their names. The first one is my lovely wife, course of history . Instead of spending millions of taxpayers’ Trish; my fine eldest son, William; and for the time being my dollars FOIPing to find out whether we spent $2.70, he should youngest son, Samuel. I know you’re sitting there wondering where maybe do some research in the incremental increases in power my daughter is. Currently, her French class is in Quebec on a prices, gas prices, oil prices, wheat prices, barley prices. student exchange program. The Speaker: The hon. member. head: Oral Question Period Mr. MacDonald: Thank you. There’s a lot of inflation in this The Speaker: First Official Opposition main question. The hon. House. Member for Edmonton-Gold Bar. Is Dr. West’s first job with this government to correct bad public policy and to once and for all unplug electricity deregulation? Is that Electricity Deregulation his first job? Mr. MacDonald: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This government has Mr. Klein: No. Dr. West’s first job is to make sure that the policies blown $8 billion on trying to make electricity deregulation work. of the government are fulfilled. Dr. West is not involved in policy Now the Premier admits that he doesn’t know, quote, if prices will development. I can understand their concern about Dr. West being ever go down. This is no comfort to consumers in this province. To the chief of staff. the Premier: why has this Premier blown $8 billion on an electricity deregulation scheme that will never, never work to benefit consum- Mrs. Nelson: Snap you like a twig. ers? Mr. Klein: Oh, absolutely. So when they launch these frivolous Mr. Klein: Mr. Speaker, only the Liberals say it will never, never requests, spending millions of taxpayers’ dollars to determine work. The Liberal critics say that the deregulation has caused higher whether we spent $2.70 on a glass of orange juice, Steve West will power bills and that the increased generation brought about since make sure that, indeed, any requests for information are legitimate, deregulation would have happened anyway. That is nonsense. The and he will keep their feet to the fire. Mr. Speaker, I suspect we will fact is that Alberta has gained over 3,000 megawatts of new power see their rear ends pucker. generation, a 30 per cent increase to Alberta’s energy supply, and those who say that new generation would have come about anyway The Speaker: Second Official Opposition. The hon. Member for are wrong. Edmonton-Gold Bar. Mr. Speaker, relative to rate increases, certainly on the retail side, the consumer side, a lot of work has been done to protect the Mr. MacDonald: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Premier has turned consumer from sloppy billing, from gouging, improper pricing of the Public Affairs Bureau into the marketing wing of the electricity electricity.
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