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From YouTube: Stories Behind the Service - Hon. Allan A. Warrack, ECA
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Member Memories: The Stories Behind the Service is a Member-narrated video docuseries that highlights the experiences of Members beyond their service records. It explores Alberta’s changing political climate and illustrates the evolution of the role of an elected representative over the past century.
B
A
If
I'm
going
to
run,
it
will
be
in
my
rural
community
of
Southern
Albert
east
of
Calgary
called
tiny
place
called
Langdon,
that's
listed
on
the
thing
there
halfway
to
Strathmore
and
and
where
most
of
my
family
lives
and
my
parents
had
grade
seven
education,
you
know
I,
said
I'll,
live
or
die
there
and
then
I.
That
drove
me
so
hard
to
do.
The
heavy
duty
campaigning
but
I
said
I'll
run
in
my
home
area
or
I
won't
run
at
all,
and
he
says
well
I
admire
that.
But
you
can't
win
there.
A
Community
and
all
that
for
me,
that
was
a
necessary
fit
because
you
know
I
don't
really
need
this.
I
already
have
a
PhD
and
I'm
working
up.
The
academic
ranks
that
at
U
of
A
and
eventually
became,
as
you
saw
VP
Finance.
A
A
Really
good
supporters
from
just
about
in
the
center
of
the
constituency
whose
brother-in-law
prior
to
me,
I'd
run
for
the
Liberals
Jim
Rohr
was
his
name
good
guy
Aggie
Pelham.
The
first
thing
I
did
out
when
I
was
nominated,
I
went
and
talked
to
Jim
said
I'm
in
here
you
can't
win,
you
run
I
can't
win.
A
He
says:
okay,
I
won't
run
run
candidate,
one
of
the
pieces
of
advice
law
he
gave
to
me.
He
says:
don't
forget
women
vote
and
teenage
kids
vote.
Do
everything
you
can
to
engage
them.
When
you
talk
to
enough
people,
you
start
figuring
out
a
few
things
from
them.
One
of
them
is
in
rural
areas
that
their
their
huge
mine
was
62,
townships,
townships
such
as
six
by
six
in
case
you
didn't
know,
and
this
side
of.
A
Between
you
know
kind
of
by
accident,
partly
because
I
knew
a
couple.
A
couple
of
guys
that
were
in
a
district
east
of
Innisfail
courts
was
which
I
bounded
on
then
I
realized
I
could
eat
his
lunch
if
I
focused
on
the
boundary.
A
So
the
things
are
six
miles
by
six
miles.
You
always
go
with
a
local
guy
because
they
recognize
the
car
and
I
concentrated
on
the
outer
bounds
and
worked
my
way
in
and
left
the
towns
alone.
Main
Street
usually
votes
whoever's
in
because
they
see
it
in
their
interest
and
by
that
time
my
opponent
was
cabinet.
Minister
Ray
ratzlaff,
good
fellow
bud,
not
not
threat
to
politics,
so
I'd
eat
initial
ones.
All
around
around
the
edges
and
I
didn't
think
that
up
I
experienced
it
and
so
I
won
all
of
those
boundary
constituencies.
The
biggest.
A
Settlement
in
Alberta
was,
in
my
area
a
little
town
called
Linden
and
I
called
on
them,
even
though
I
knew
they
wouldn't
vote,
but
they
do
talk.
So
I
got
very
well
received
in
the
Mennonite
community
at
Linden
Alberta
and
somebody
around
there
to
figure
it
out.
They
had
their
own
kind
of
little
star
and
things
and
I
used
to
meet
them
or
remember.
Parliament
stands
you
make
it
from
John,
Miller
we'd
meet
there
for
lunch
and
we
had
for
lunch
and
go
around
talk
to
people
and
and
then
the
word
goes
out.
A
Yeah
Landslide
The
Saga
of
eight.
It
got
my
attention
on
what
a
great
number
it
is
when
I
won
by
eight
four
people
and
it
depend
dependency.
August
30th
is
in
southern
number,
where
I'm
from
you're
doing
harvesting
and
a
bunch
of
those
dudes
down
there
shut
down
the
combine
and
went
to
town
and
voted,
and
if
they
hadn't
had
done
it
and
I
lost.
A
Nobody
in
our
caucus
was
south
of
me.
I
was
the
closest
thing
to
Southern
Alberta,
then
I
had
kind
of
the
Southern
Alberta
beat
I
won
my
eight
votes
that
piece
of
advice
for
Morehead,
which
I
might
not
have
ever
thought
of
being
being
a
baseball
guy.
I
know
that
Yogi
Berra
was
a
catcher
and
I
was
a
catcher
Yogi
Berra
War
number
eight
I
was
I
wore
a
number
one
by
eight
Yogi
Bear
had
left-handed
and.
A
So
he
phoned
me
and
said:
can
I
come
over
and
talk
to
you,
sir?
So
he
came
over
and
showed
me
how
to
find
the
premier's
office
like
I'd,
been
in
the
building
just
once
and
my
office
wasn't
in
the
building.
Oh
I
just
think
I
GOG,
just
a
Gog.
Our
philosophy
was
it's
not
an
administrative
center?
It's
a
political,
Leadership
Center!
So
everybody's
going
to
end
up
there.
A
A
The
five
criteria
to
be
appointed
by
a
cabinet
I
know
you
would
want
to
hear
this,
and
this
is
really
crucial,
and
this
is
really
large
and
I
see
he.
He
was
in
Dali
Epsilon
10
years.
Before
me,
he
was
10
years
older
than
I
was,
and
so
I
was
president
of
certainly
10
years
after
he
was
okay.
So
I've
got
a
magnified
respect
for
that.
B
B
A
Mother
comes
driving
out
to
the
field
in
the
car
she
says
Peter
on,
it
is
just
foamed
and
he
wants
you
to
come
up
to
Bath
as
soon
as
possible
for
their
cabin
well,
I
knew
who
their
cabin
was,
and
so
I
got
there
and
I
was
offered
the
ministry
of
lands
and
for
us
you
probably
haven't
read
alidaris
book.
I
know
there
are
guys
we
were
great
Palestine.
We
were
both
baseball
players
and
then,
of
course,
he's
left-handed.
Anyway.
A
He
came
in
right
behind
me
by
this
time.
I
had
figured
out
anybody,
that's
invited
up,
there
is
being
invite
being
invited
to
cabinet
and
he
comes
through
the
door.
He's
a
big
guy
said:
what's
going
on
there,
you
know
I,
says
yeah
I
know
you
go
in
and
find
out.
Then
he
was
appointed
to
Canada
right
after
me,
but
that's
how
that's
how
it
happened.
Now
you
ready
for
the
five
I'm
gonna
skip
around
just
a
little
okay.
First
of
all,
you
have
to
agree
that
your
resignation
is
in
the
premier's
desk.
A
Don't
bother
Ray
it's
a
singularity
decision
he
would
make
if
he
feels
he
should
do.
You
agree
with
that,
and
the
answer
is
yes:
along
with
that
came
a
statement
of
your
financial
position.
Well,
I
was
real
thin
I
just
finished
grad
school,
so
that's
easy,
I'll
jump
to
number
five.
This
is
more
pertinent.
Now,
no
liquor
in
your
office
ever.
Do
you
agree
to
that
and
kind
of
what
that
is
that
when,
when
you
have
meetings
like
like
I'll
say
he
says
always
be
on
time
always
be
prepared
and
always
be
sober.
A
A
Don't
know
you
and
you
won't
be
sure
you
can
believe
them
if
you
don't
know
them
and
then
there's
the
industry,
and
we
were
wanting
to
convert
forestry
from
Strictly,
Pulp
and
Paper
like
at
Hinton
and
then
the
new
facility
that
was
built
at
Grand
Prairie.
So
we
initiated
a
process
to
have
high
value
Lumber
from
the
best
wood
and
the
other
wood
used
for
for
chipping
and
paper
and
I.
A
Remember
rolling
out
my
dust
line
at
Fox
Creek,
because
the
small
communities
do
it
up
good,
you
know
they
bring
on
the
RCMP
and
they
got
our
little
parade
and
everything.
I
said
and
I
said
it
can't
happen
just
rolled
out.
I
wasn't
even
thinking.
I
said
last
time
I
arrived
somewhere
with
a
red
light.
I
got.
B
A
It's
now
called
Capital
City
Park,
but
you'll
find
the
roots
of
that
in
a
1973
for
Lincoln
Park's
position
paper
that
I
wrote
and
tabled
in
the
legislature-
and
we
debated
you
have
to
know
the
substance
like
the
scientific
content
say,
and
you
have
to
know
the
people
and
earn
their
trust
because
you
got
divisions
in
Rocky,
Mountain,
House
and
Grand
Prairie
and
lachla
Bush,
and
so
I
went
to
all
those
places
and
so
on.
A
So
that's
why
your
appointment
is
for
a
full
four
years
and
if
you're
reappointed
he'll
be
appointed
to
a
different
portfolio,
nobody's
going
to
repeat
the
reason
is
to
bread,
the
contact
and
and
in
some
cases,
I'll
come
to
this
in
a
minute
people
weren't
con
continuing,
and
so
you
don't
have
the
Zara
foresty.
B
A
Was
reappointed
if
I'd
earned
a
reappointment
and
he
said
I
think
you
will.
You
know
I
mean
he's
a
leader
and
he
was
right
that
that,
if
you're,
if
you
are
reappointed,
it
will
be
to
a
different
portfolio
and
it'll
be
for
the
four
years,
and
that
was
utilities
and
Telecommunications
about
tolerance
about
Cable
Systems
Jim
Shaw
became
a
friend
of
mine.
All
of
that
is
second,
the
second
Point
number
three.
A
And
this
this
this
did
create
some
hard
feelings,
eventually
and
so
on
and
so
forth,
but
I
understood
it
now.
That
was
easy
because
I
was
in
my
30s.
If
this
appointment,
the
cabinet
is
when
you're
over
45.,
you
will
not
be
repointed
you're.
A
Surprised,
but
how
are
you
going
to
do
renewal
and
bring
in
new
cabinet
people
some
people
in
caucus
who
have
earned
it,
but
also
like
I
recruited,
a
guy
named
Dick
Johnson,
who
you
may
have?
He
was
eventually
provincial
Treasurer,
but
he
was
an
accounting
and
Lethbridge
and
of
course,
because
I
was
the
most
southerly
person
when
I
went
down.
Dick
gave
blah
blah
blah
to
all
kinds
of
places
there
and
he
signed
up
to
run
in
the
next
election
and
he
won.
He
got
appointed
provincial
Treasurer.
B
A
A
All
Ministries
had
second
acting
and
third
acting,
so
I
was
as
landslim
for
us.
I
was
first
acting
for
an
environment
and
I
was
first
acting
for
telecommunications.
When
the
minister
is
not
available
because
wherever
they
are
yeah,
so
on
you
get
in
there,
you
won't
be
as
fully
afraid,
you'll
you'll.
Maybe
you
defer
you
do,
but
you
handle
it.
A
You
deal
with
it
if
you're
replying
or
are
reappointed,
it
won't
be
the
same
that
the
same
Department
it'll
be
different,
but
it
will
be
for
four
years,
so
you
can
get
out
there
and
meet
everybody
in
and
of
course,
by
this
time,
you're
starting
to
get
kind
of
skilled.
At
this
you
know
you're,
starting
with
very
little
raw
material,
a
farm
farm
kid
from
Silent
helper
who
turned
to
tiny
little
school.
Somebody
asked
me:
if
I
played
basketball
basketball,
would
anyone
have
a
bloody
gymnasium?
What
do
you
mean?
A
Basketball
we
played
hockey
and
we
share
played
baseball,
so
that's
a
pretty
complicated
management
process
and
then,
with
the
the
no
liquor
in
the
office,
the
past
number
five.
Those
were
the
five
and
you
don't
have
to
agree,
but
you
won't
be
a
point
and
that
also
causes
your
senior
people
to
put
their
feet
in
front
of
a
fire.
A
I
mean
nobody
other
than
conventional
government
is
better
that
the
thing
they
they
do
best
in
decision
making
is
is
cleverly
avoidant
decisions.
So.
B
Those
are
five
and
and
I've
not
fully.
A
Was
the
time
in
the
social
crowded
era,
two
major
things
one:
they
kept
the
royalties
from
oil
and
gas
owned
by
the
public.
You
know
at
six
at
one
sixth,
we
doubled
it,
that's
where
the
first
gush
of
came
from
and
the
guy
that
handled
all
that
was
Myrtle,
Beach
Jim's
dad
and
he
and
I
became
very
that's
what
we're
both
kind
of
kind
of
academic.
Despite
our
very
rural
backgrounds,
we
we
doubled
it,
but
then
what
happened
shortly
after
that
is
old
pet
kicked
in
I.
Even
remember
it
was
1973.
A
and
then
the
prices,
so
the
royalties
were
doubled
and
then
the
price
basis
was,
let's
say,
tripled.
In
some
cases
even
more
with,
and
so
the
gusher
of
money
I
said,
I
forgot
everyone,
we
sat
there
and
says
we
can't
spell
this
money,
it'll
be
wasteful
and
subsequent
governments
will
never
be
able
to
recover
from
it.
We
got
to
do
something
and
something
was
the
Alberta
Heritage
fund
and
I
was
on
that
committee
and
I've
published
quite
widely
on
that
in
honesty,
I
think
post-lawied.
A
So
the
the
Heritage
fund
was
established
and
there
was
a
monstrous
gush
of
of
money
and
put
there,
but
then
then
it
started
to
wind,
a
woman
down
as
all
the
grief
and
stuff
of
others
in
these
in
the
area
of
Arabia,
and
so
on,
happened
and
I.
Remember
a
statement
by
the
government
after
I
had
left.
I
wished
I'd
been
there,
so
I
could
resist
it
speak
against
it.
A
The
first
one
was
to
win
where
nobody
fought.
I
could
win.
I
wouldn't
want
the
first
time
if
I
hadn't
promised,
if
elected
I
would
run
a
second
time,
so
I
had
taken
that
choice
away,
but
it
paid
off
and
then
I
went
from
the
closest
in
Alberta
eight
eight
votes
to
not
losing
a
bowl,
not
one
wow.
That
was
a
thrill
since
we
did
it,
we
did
it
so
I'm
gone
I'm
gonna
go
go
back
to
earning
a
living.
A
Warx
and
I'll
mention
two
people
to
you,
one.
If
you
look
up
the
Scottish
Symphony
you'll
see
that
the
founders,
sir
guy
work
founding
conductor
and
and
they
pronounce
it
hard
enough
learning
French,
let
alone
slipping
Scottish
in
there.
So
that's
one
I
have
a
first
cousin
in
Toronto
named
David
Warwick,
just
Google
them,
and
this
guy
just
music
Beyond,
which
I
couldn't
believe
but
he's
not
of
the
same
stream.
A
But
there
is.
There
is
a
son
of
the
guy
Warwick
who's
John
work
and
he
was
a
music
professor
at
wait
for
it,
Oxford,
University
and
he's,
and
there's
a
book
in
the
U
of
A
Library
I've
written
on
his
book
called
Tchaikovsky.
I
eventually
got
an
elder
saxophone.
It's
the
E
flat
one,
the
smaller
one,
the
big
one
with
the
little
curl
is,
is
the
tenor
and
it's
the
B
flat.
And
so
you
know,
I
knew
the
circle
of
chords
and
stuff
like
that.
But
anyway,
so
I
also
had
never
prepared.
A
A
B
A
That
good,
but
I
was
the
best
we
had
so
I
was
The
Pianist
for
that
the
average
city
of
the
old
days
of
our
caucus
and
all
this
stuff,
and
so
on
and
so
forth.
We
had
the
Tory
Blue
Notes,
well,
I'm,
not
that
good,
but
I
was
the
best
we
had
so
I
was
The,
Pianist,
believe
it
or
not.
For
the
Tory
balloons.
A
Find
out
what
the
pay
is
yeah
and
then
they
won't.
We
one
of
the
most
depressing
things,
I
recall
from
caucus.
You
know
by
the
way,
at
caucus
we
met
it.
The
government
building,
you
know
with
the
big
round
table
and
we
were
sought
by
alphabet
not
by
cabinet
up
there,
and
then
here
that
was
another
change
law
he
made
Jim,
Foster
and
I
were
together
on
this
at
the
end
of
our
first
term.
A
So
there
was
the
for
a
foster,
War
proposal
and
what
we
said
is
we
have
we
think
Jim
and
I
do
so.
We
invite
you
to
think
with
us
that
we
have
turned
this
province
upside
down
and
looking
up
and
and
forward
having
done
things
and
we'll
do
more
things,
and
this
time
we
should
be
paid
the
level
that
it's
worth
to
society,
not
the
patterns.
We
get
one
of
the
guys
that
was
worth
what
he's
getting
paid,
but
he
didn't
know
to
keep
his
mouth
shut
and
he
says
I've
been
remembered
vividly.
A
A
Wow
then
you
look
around
the
room,
see
we're
like
a
horseshoe
I'm
watching
these
heads
Bob
wasn't
rejected
it's
deferred,
you
know
100
years
or
something,
and
that
was
the
moment.
I
said:
I
have
to
honor
what
I
said.
I
would
do
and
by
God
I
will
but
then
I'm
out
of
here
and
I
was.
B
A
A
A
A
I
tried
to
stay
with
the
conservative
party,
but
once
they
dropped,
Progressive
I
was
gone
because,
while
he
and
I
discussed
I
said
I'm
wary
of
just
consideratives,
but
he
persuaded
that
he
and
it
was
true
of
him.
You
know,
like
you
know,
I
mentioned
what
our
first
legislation
was
and
things
like
that.
But
now
it's
you
know
it's
all
out
the
window.
A
B
A
Alan
War
acts
have
there
been
four.
There
was
an
infant
death
near
Edinburgh
1870,
something
there
was
an
allen,
alien,
all
right,
close
enough.
That
I've
discovered
in
California,
born
in
Saucony
right
across
the
bridge
from
San
Francisco.
When
I
got
a
contact
exchange
letters
I
found
he
had
had
cancer,
but
I
made
a
point
of
going
and
seeing
them
and
soon
afterwards
he
died.
So
that's
too,
there
are
two
of
us
still
alive.
One
was
born
in
England,
but
now
they're
in
Brisbane,
Australia
and
they've,
converted
to
people
Mormons.
A
B
A
A
All
up
and
saw
them
I,
you
know,
help
help
them
around
town
and
over
to
the
Mormon
church
that
they
belong
to
and
so
on.
But
when
we
first
found
them,
we
invited
them
to
Brisbane
Australia
to
our
hotel
and
took
them
for
dinner.
Alum,
al-a-n
and
Dawn
d-a-w-n
and
we've
been
in
touch
ever
since
then
they're
back,
attended
the
Alan
Warwick's
plural.
They
only
do
living
that's
it.