MS. DIANA WHALEN: I started by saying, just so that everybody understands, this budget is not balanced. It's not balanced because a lot of debt that should have been on this year was shoved into last year, just to balloon that deficit for last year. It's not honest because the whole premise of the four years financially of the NDP Government is based on a fiction, a fiction that was created by false assumptions under the Deloitte study. The false assumptions were to go forth and forecast where we would be if we continued to spend . . .

SPEAKER'S RULING: Accusing a member of an illegal activity (Pt. of order by Hon. M. Samson [Hansard p.839 04/16/13]) Out of order; requests Kings North MLA to retract comment

I will now take this opportunity to rule on the point of order around the reference to an illegal action and I will rule that out of order. I'd ask the member for Kings North to retract that comment.

The honourable member for Kings North.

MR. JIM MORTON: Madam Speaker, I will retract that.

MR. JIM MORTON: Excuse me - my apologies, Madam Speaker, I think I used a member's name, and I shouldn't have - the Leader of the Liberal Party is still using these tainted funds today.

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SPEAKER'S RULING: EECD Minister's refusal to answer certain questions during Question Period and CWH on Supply (Pt. of privilege by Hon. K. Casey [Hansard p. 529, 04/09/13]) No prima facie breach of privilege.

HON. KAREN CASEY: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am rising in accordance with Rule 29 (1) and raising a matter of privilege at the first opportunity for which I request your consideration, and in accordance with Rule 29 (2) I have provided you with notice of my intention to raise this point of privilege prior to the meeting of the House today.

SPEAKER'S RULING: Remarks by Richmond MLA after the Speaker delivered a ruling (Hon. M. Samson, [Hansard p. 400, 04/04/13]) No point of order and no point of privilege.

Yesterday, after I delivered a ruling on a point of order, the honourable member for Richmond rose and made several remarks, asking me about what he said was a reversal by the Treasury Board of a decision that had been made by the House of Assembly Management Commission.

SPEAKER'S RULING: Question by Dart. East MLA to Treasury Bd. Min. imputed motives to the minister (Pt. of order by Hon. F. Corbett, [Hansard p.243, 02/04/13) Member found to have imputed motive and that the member "should retract any such suggestion".

MS. DIANA WHALEN: Madam Speaker, I'm rising on a point of order that the member opposite is not speaking to the resolution at all and, in fact, is way off topic and there's very little time for us to get to the nub of this resolution. I'm wondering if the member who is speaking has the information so that he could speak to the veracity of the NDP's budgetary techniques.

MADAM SPEAKER: The honourable Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party.

HON. FRANK CORBETT: Mr. Speaker, on a point of order. Earlier in Question Period today the member for Dartmouth East - I think it was in his first supplementary to me; I forget the exact words, but you can look it up - implied intent about retribution against the Auditor General. If you could review that part of Hansard and give a ruling, I would appreciate it. Thank you.

MR. SPEAKER: The honourable Opposition House Leader.

MS. MICHELE RAYMOND: Mr. Speaker, I rise today on a point of privilege of which I have given you notice. This is not actually the first time that I have almost needed to rise on a point of privilege during my three terms of office as representative for Halifax Atlantic but I do hope it will be the last.