MR. KEITH BAIN: Mr. Speaker, the NDP's attack on job creators continues. Egg Studios recently announced they will continue to pursue legal recourse and a judicial review appeal to the Supreme Court in their effort to reverse the decision of the NDP's new labour board, under NDP law, to certify a group of technical employees earlier this year.

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MR. SPEAKER: Order, please. I would remind the honourable member that the topic is on Bill No. 94, the House of Assembly Act. I don't think that last bit of contact had anything to do with the House of Assembly Act so I'd ask the honourable member to stay on the bill, please.

The honourable Minister of Environment has the floor.

MR. BELLIVEAU: Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Shelburne County is on the cusp of returning to the economic prosperity prior to the cod moratorium.

HON. STEPHEN MCNEIL: My question to the Premier is, why does the Premier think it's okay to take land from a Nova Scotia family business to give to a large multinational corporation yet won't consider taking land back from Resolute?

THE PREMIER: Mr. Speaker, I'll await your ruling on this but I believe that is a matter before the courts and any response to that question would be inappropriate.

PUBLIC BILLS FOR THIRD READING

MADAM SPEAKER: The honourable Government House Leader.

HON. FRANK CORBETT: Madam Speaker, would you please call Bill No. 143.

Bill No. 143 - Importation of Wine for Personal Use Act.

MADAM SPEAKER: The honourable member for Halifax Clayton Park.

MS. DIANA WHALEN: I appreciate the opportunity to speak on this bill. I had expected some other speaker, perhaps the minister or someone in advance of just moving third reading that there might be a few comments made. But it is important that . . .

HON. JAMIE BAILLIE: Mr. Speaker, I hereby give notice as per Rule 43(2) that the business of the House be set aside for the purpose of discussing a matter of urgent public importance. As per the Rule, I sent you a copy of my request earlier today. In accordance with Rule 43(1), I request that the emergency debate take place at the moment of interruption.

HON. KEITH COLWELL: Mr. Speaker, I hereby give notice that on a future day I shall move the adoption of the following resolution:

Whereas after three years of the NDP Government's economic mismanagement, Nova Scotia has had the worst economic growth and the second lowest wages in Canada; and

Whereas three years of massive record-breaking deals that saw big cheques going to big business, we see that Dexter economics has done nothing to move up the wages in Nova Scotia; and

MR. CHURCHILL: The decision was made in 2009, it wasn't made in 2004.

In 2011, that was another season where U.S. visitation was down. (Interruption) Now we look at 2012 - and the Minister of Community Services, if she is interested in the facts, she can read the data that I'm tabling. These are facts, these are the facts of your own Department of Economic and Rural Development and Tourism.

AN HON. MEMBER: Go back to 2004.

MR. CHURCHILL: In 2012 visitation from the U.S. to this province, down again.

HON. MICHEL SAMSON: Mr. Speaker, I believe this morning it was quite appropriate that the female members of our caucus stood up to defend the member for Halifax Clayton Park, whom the Minister of Finance accused in this House of not having the experience enough to be the Finance Critic for us, or to even one day be the Finance Minister for this province.

Those comments are on the record by the Minister of Finance and one would hope, again, that she'd be willing to retract the accusations and the insults that she made against the member for Halifax Clayton Park.

MR. SPEAKER: Before we get down to the Opposition Members' Business today, I noticed that earlier the member for Pictou East had put an attachment or tabled something with a resolution. You're not allowed to table attachments or anything with that. I'm therefore directing the document which the honourable member sought to have accompanying the notice of motion be struck from the record of the House. It does not form a part of the record of the proceedings of this House. Thank you.

HON. FRANK CORBETT: Mr. Speaker, that concludes the government's business for today. I move that the House do now rise to meet again from the hours of 9:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. tomorrow . . .

HON. MICHEL SAMSON: Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. As you will recall, last Thursday the hours were from noon to 6:00 as well, and I believe we were done at 4:00. On Friday the hours were from 9:00 to 3:00 and we were done at 10:30. Today the hours were from noon to 6:00, and it's now 2:41 p.m.