"William Richards Bennett", Queen's Privy Council for Canada/PC, Order of British Columbia/OBC, commonly known as "Bill Bennett", was the List of Premiers of British Columbia/27th Premier of British Columbia/Premier of the Canada/Canadian province of British Columbia 1975–1986. He is a son of the former Premier, W. A. C. Bennett. He was a 3rd cousin, twice removed, of Richard Bedford Bennett/R.B. Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada.

Following his father's resignation, Bill Bennett was elected on September 7, 1973, as the British Columbia Social Credit League Member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly for South Okanagan.

To distinguish him from his famous father, also named William - though usually called "W.A.C." in the media or "Ceece" by his friends,. he was usually called simply Bill Bennett. One media term coined to describe the younger Bennett was "Mini-Wac," derived from another of his father's nicknames, one created by his enemies but ultimately embraced by some supporters - "Wacky".

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I am well aware of how precious the Flathead is here in Canada and I am well aware of how precious it is to people in Montana. I am not about to let anything outrageous or irresponsible happen in the Flathead.

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Whose side are you on?

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We already have a security plan in place – what we're looking to do now is to improve our response plan for when something happens. We're not so much worried about someone hijacking our vehicles as we are about one of our trucks being stolen and used as a weapon, or something dangerous being put on one of our vehicles while the driver is making deliveries. That's what really concerns us.

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Robolympics brings excitement into the community, where people can see it and see it's not out of their reach.

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The GOP was the party of Joe McCarthy. . . . Now, though, it is the Democrats who . . . stifle debate and smother thought.

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I think it's sad the person who leads our city can't make his payment.

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I can't speak highly enough of Michael Fey. Throughout all of this, he's been excellent. He's had a tough year.

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Those voluntary abortions, and that horrid practice of women murdering their bastard children, alas, too frequent among us. . . .

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I think what (Bush) should say is, 'Look, we welcome his followers, but this is a party that has views. We do not believe that America should stand by while some totalitarian regime slaughters millions or hundreds of millions of people. We do not believe that we should have restrictions on trade that will finally hurt America,' ... Face The Nation.

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