Peterson, Roy

"Fortunately we save so much with our successful policy of restraint we simply have to spend the extra million dollars somewhere ..."

"Hey in there - lighten up! No tax hike for two years!"

"... it appears this one wants to be mayor, not prime minister - whatever happened to the last parachute candidate we elected?"

"How does he do that?"

"... getting the hunting licence from the province is no problem ... buying the rifle and flying the helicopter is no problem ... getting close enough to get a bead on the vicious, predatory beasts is going to be the problem ..."

"... and the first passenger that says the bus service is shocking gets turned to salt ..."

"It develops the what ...?"

"... more nails ... more jelly ... more mops and garbage cans ..."

Economic Hardball

"... and in the interests of restraint we could encourage even more future Nobel prizewinners right here in B.C. by shutting down the universities altogether ..."

How do you spell relief? RESTRAINT! Supernatural B.C. Style! The Fast-Acting Solution to Budgetary Overload. This advertisement paid for by funds saved by firing Rosalie Staplepicker, Class III provincial civil servant.

"B.C. government war surplus or not, Pierre, this is not what I had in mind when you proposed these weekend Liberal think tanks ..."

"... in the interest of maintaining adequate health, medical and human rights services despite budgetary restraint, and in keeping with our tourism slogan of SuperNatural B.C. ..."

"I'll be back for the other one later ..."

"Hemlock ... hemlock ... get your hemlock ... hemlock ..."

"I intend to make my attack on the entire lot of them tomorrow ... with a heat-seeking X."

"He wears red underwear." "He wears silk underwear." "Sheesh! No underwear again this month."

"Gardener's Hint #83: This spring election is a good time to let the ground lie fallow. Lay in bulbs for next election's blooms after May 5."

"I thought he'd never leave - now let's glue the wings back on these flies and see how the voters swat ...."

"Well, when they do decide to call an election ... for premier I'm voting Fred Latrimouille ..."

"Okay! Okay! So Lougheed won! Now stop talking and look for an issue!"

B.C. Election Speculation

"Mix and mulch ... mix and mulch ...."

"He says the economy may be dead, but he'll still need a raise before we can bury it."