Even though Alberta MLAs are bound by a list of behavioural rules in the legislature, they’ve left a lot of juvenile insults on the official Hansard record.
Members have hurled some weird and wonderful snubs, from “skunk,” “scuzzball” and “gerbil,” to the “minister of gobbledygook.” They have called each other “jackasses,” “yahoos,” “idiots,” “liars” and “trained seals.”
Probably the most common point of order, the granddaddy of all insults, is to call a member a liar or imply lying. But even that rule haswiggle room. On Nov. 18, UCP house leader Jason Nixon said in one breath: “That member – I’m going to have to withdraw this in a moment – is a liar. Happy to apologize and withdraw.”
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