MR. SPEAKER: Now that we are on the subject of points of order, I would like to have a review on the point of order raised by the Government House Leader respecting the resolution tabled by the member for Dartmouth East. I believe the third whereas could be taken to associate the Premier with lying or having himself lied and I feel the inference is unparliamentary, so I'm going to instruct the Chief Clerk to delete the third whereas from Resolution No. 257. Thank you.

MR. GLAVINE: ... The Premier and the Finance Minister have been intentionally misleading Nova Scotians when they say that there is tax relief in this budget. Let us be absolutely clear, there is no tax relief.

MADAM SPEAKER: Order, please. I would remind the member that it's not acceptable to infer that there was an intentional misleading of the House. I would ask the member to retract that statement.

MR. GLAVINE: Well, I will have to consider that, Madam Speaker, because I'm not intentionally misleading the House. (Interruptions)

HON. MICHEL SAMSON: Mr. Speaker, either on a point of order or a point of privilege as it does go to the Rules of this House.

MR. SPEAKER: Order, please. Honourable members, you'll recall that on Friday, with the unanimous consent of this House, we departed from our normal procedure so that we could deal with the passing of Resolution No. 264, which was passed with favourable debate and agreement of all Parties. The Chief Clerk has drawn to my attention that the resolution contained four "Whereas" clauses, which is one more than the three we're permitted under the long-standing practice of this House unless there has been unanimous consent.

HON. FRANK CORBETT: Mr. Speaker, on a point of order, during Question Period the member for Richmond, when asking questions of the Minister of Justice, in his second supplementary certainly changed the whole view and subject matter of his questioning. It is usually - in the history of this House, as long as I have been here, that all questions had to be related. You can ask various ministers on the same subject but it should be all related when you ask the same minister.

Mr. Speaker, my point would be if you would look into that and see the veracity of it. Thank you.

MR. SPEAKER: Order, please. The member must realize that he can only speak for as long as the minister spoke and now you're over the time limit, so I would ask you to wind down, please. Those are the rules and procedures in the Legislature. Thank you. I'll ask you to wrap up right now.

MR. YOUNGER: Mr. Speaker, I would say that it's hard to do that when the minister gives us 30 minutes' notice . . .

MR. SPEAKER: All right, have a seat then.

We will begin the daily routine. Yesterday after Question Period the honourable member for Kings West rose on a point of privilege, to the effect that in responding to a question, the Premier had said something with respect to the member having not read a letter from government, when the member had actually said that the government did not respond in a significant way.

SPEAKER'S RULING: Member says he was misquoted. (Pt. of privilege by Mr. L. Glavine [Hansard p. 1205, 04/26/11]) Not a breach of privilege, but a disagreement between members over facts.

MR. LEO GLAVINE: A point of privilege, Mr. Speaker. During Question Period today when the Premier responded to my question, he said to the effect that while I did not read the letter that came from government, in fact my exact quote is that government did not respond in a significant way, as the tape which I reviewed this weekend.

I just wanted to let the Premier know that while I responded, as the people of the Valley know, it was not in a significant way. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

HON. MANNING MACDONALD: Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. The Minister responsible for Part I of the Gaming Control Act, during Question Period, made reference to the fact that it was the Liberal Government that introduced VLTs into Nova Scotia. Maybe the minister wants to correct that because it was not the Liberal Government, it was the previous Progressive Conservative Government that introduced VLTs into the province.

MR. SPEAKER: I will take that under advisement and get back to the House as soon as possible. I'll have my staff do the research on it.

HON. DAVID WILSON: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Yesterday during Question Period, in one of my answers, I did indicate that the former Government of the Liberal Party introduced VLTs to the province - I stand corrected. What I did want to say was it was the former Liberal Government that introduced the casino, so I do retract the comments that I made yesterday.