Edmonton — A visibly shaken Premier Ralph Klein refused to comment today after University of Alberta history professor Lotta Nurv revealed the government’s entire legislative agenda had been plagiarized.
“Basically, they just lifted the whole thing word for word from various historical sources,” she said. “A lot of their social policy was cribbed from Vlad the Impaler, for example, and I’ve been able to trace some of their welfare policies back to just after the invention of cuneiform writing.”
The last three provincial budgets are identical, word for word, to the annual spending decrees of Louis XVI. Scrolls attributed to Genghis Khan are believed to be the source for the province’s human rights legislation. And the province’s environmental regulations were drawn largely from the writings of a little-known Viking named Rancid Erik the Despoiler.
