In the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly, a Progressive Conservative MLA named Bill Oliver recently read aloud an AI editing prompt embedded in his prepared remarks, momentarily dissolving the boundary between the tool and the voice it was meant to serve. The error was small in duration but large in implication — a reminder that the instruments we use to shape our words can quietly reshape our relationship to them. As legislatures around the world begin to reckon with artificial intelligence in official work, Oliver's stumble offers an unusually candid window into a question institutions have