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There has never been a day quite like that in the Alberta legislature.

A whole question period was devoted to a single member, Manmeet Bhullar, who died in an accident Monday.

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Young New Democrat MLAs sobbed in sympathy and grief, along with Progressive Conservatives and Wildrose members.

The steel-hard official Opposition voluntarily gave its coveted series of questions to Bhullar’s colleagues, the PCs.

Every question from all parties was one Bhullar would have asked, about the huge range of issues that moved him.

“I’ve never seen or heard of anything like it, in any Canadian assembly,” said legislature clerk David McNeill, who was seen wiping away a few tears of his own.

Premier Rachel Notley and her ministers answered every Bhullar-inspired question with respect, dignity, and loving mentions of their friendly foe.

There was no heckling, no booing, no shouting each other down. “I can hear you,” Speaker Bob Wanner said wonderingly, wishing it were like that all the time.