WHO SAID IT? TAKE THE 2017 ALBERTA POLITICS YEAR-IN-QUOTES QUIZ

With 2017 coming to a close, let’s take a look over our shoulders with this year-in-quotes quiz. Graham Thomson provides the quotes and you figure out who said it and why. Answers are below (no peeking).

“I guess the lesson is we shouldn’t be fooled by good-looking Liberals.”

“It was the best summer job I ever had.”

“I do, however, believe parents have a right to know what’s going on with their kids in the schools unless the parents are abusive.”

“I have never suggested that notification be mandatory.”

“Mark my words, that pipeline will be built.”

“The deficit elimination plan remains on track.”

“We’ll have plenty of time to beat the crap out of each other in the coming weeks and months.”

“I’m a flawed man, and I can do better.”

“I’m going to make sure that the fiscal wreck we inherited from the former government is set right in a balanced and responsible way.”

“This NDP government knows that they are living on borrowed time.”

“This is basically a second Alberta Liberal Party and it’s a party with apparently fewer than 500 members that is polling about six per cent, the same place it was 18 months ago, that raised $79,000 in the first nine months

of this year. That’s the political equivalent of a phone booth.”

“There is not a school, hospital, bus, road, bike lane or port that doesn’t owe something to a strong energy industry.”