2004:
We’re getting beat up for trying to help. You people should be talking about how to get the borders open. I’ve had enough of this crap.
Alberta Premier Ralph Klein to reporters, on allegations $400 million in government mad cow relief has been misused. He then stalked out of the news conference.
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2005:
The time has passed when square boxes with minimal features and lame landscaping are acceptable. Our tolerance for crap is now zero.
Edmonton Mayor Stephen Mandel in state-of-the-city speech.
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2010:
I look at what we produce, and if we’re honest with ourselves, I look and say, ‘Why do I produce so much s–t? Why I do I fund so much crap?‘ Why do collectively we do it? Why (are) broadcasters not picking up more Canadian content?
Culture Minister Lindsay Blackett, at a TV festival in Banff
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2010:
Who crapped in everyone’s corn flakes this morning?
Calgary mayoral candidate Barb Higgins to a group of arts advocates, after a particularly sour campaign TV interview.
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2012:
You cannot come as the industry to say to us, ‘It takes too long for me to get my approvals’ if you’re bringing us crap.
Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi, about developers’ wishes to cut red tape in the planning department.
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2000:
And who can remember the short-lived Canadian Conservative Reform Alliance party acronym, CCRAP?
New Democrat MP Lorne Nystrom asked if he could refer to them as CCRAP in the House of Commons. The diplomatic response from the deputy speaker, Edmonton Alliance MP Ian McClelland:
If it was used in a manner of: `It’s a great movement you’ve got’, then I would suggest it wouldn’t be. But if he were to say: `Boy, that’s a crappy party you’ve got’, that would be considered unparliamentary.’
