"When I look out over the crowd today, I think I can actually see people pinching themselves," proclaimed Evan Berger, Progressive Conservative MLA for Livingstone-Macleod, just over a year ago as the sod was turned at the site of the new provincial police college in the windblown Southern Alberta town of Fort MacLeod.
"They're having a hard time accepting that this day is finally here," said Berger, then Alberta's minister of agriculture, who at the time must have been reasonably confident he would soon be attending the opening of the college as a member of Premier Gary Mar's PC cabinet.