Mr. Speaker, tonight in Calgary a dinner will be held to honour one of Calgary's favourite chroniclers. For over 30 years Bill Gold brought his own powerful observations to readers of the Calgary Herald on the issues that mattered most to his adopted city.
It makes sense that he started out life as a carnival worker before entering journalism to become an insightful political commentator. We well recall his dispatches from Ottawa in which he blew away the smoke and shattered the mirrors to show his readers what really goes on here.
Carnival worker, war correspondent, political commentator, editor and ombudsman, Bill Gold did it all and he did it eloquently and with passion.
We hope that students awarded the Bill Gold Scholarship for Studies in the Humanities will know and embrace the humanity of their benefactor.
We know Bill will laugh when we call him a giant, but our response to Bill is “if you are not a giant, why have so many people looked up to you over all these years?”