MR. SPEAKER: I'd just like to remind the honourable minister that items falling under portfolios of ministers are not to be mentioned in member's statement. Close. That's why we did it after.

TIM HOUSTON: I just wish, if this really was what this government determined as the real solution, the most urgent, pressing need in education, that they'd done it properly. They haven't done it properly, and that's gone all the way through their communications efforts to some of their slanderous activities. They take everything as half . . .

MR. SPEAKER: Order, please. We remind the honourable member for Pictou East that inferring the government is undertaking slanderous activities is indeed unparliamentary. I will once again ask him to retract that statement.

HON. JAMIE BAILLIE: To drive the point home, about the way this government runs health care, it's like a company like McDonald's that actually sells their hamburgers at a very high price and then takes the beef out.

I would like to table, for the benefit of the House, an example of what I'm talking about. I'll give this to the Page to table. I do hope that it gets back, I do hope that it gets back . . .

HON. CHRISTOPHER D'ENTREMONT: Mr. Speaker, I believe when we left it last night under debate on Motion 1, if I consult Hansard, your comments were "I am advised by the Chief Clerk that we have run out of time. The clock has expired before the vote occurred so the motion to adjourn was put but not voted on, so we'll deal with that tomorrow, or at our first opportunity."

MR. SPEAKER: Order, please.

THE PREMIER: Mr. Speaker, that deal was negotiated by that government, the former Progressive Conservative Government . . .

MR. SPEAKER: Order, please. I'll ask the honourable member for Sackville-Cobequid to come to order.

The honourable Premier.

THE PREMIER: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. He knows that that deal was negotiated by that Party with the former Conservative Government and we . . .

MR. SPEAKER: Order, please. I will ask the honourable member for Sackville-Cobequid to excuse himself for the balance of Question Period.

MR. SPEAKER: Before I call on anyone else, I do want to remind the members of this House, and I will remind the honourable member for Pictou East, that the terminology "alternative facts" is unparliamentary. I request that you withdraw that statement.

The honourable member for Pictou East.

MR. TIM HOUSTON: I apologize to the House and withdraw that statement.

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

Whereas the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia struck down the Cyber Safety Act, calling it unconstitutional and removing an important legal tool for vulnerable Nova Scotians facing cyberbullies and whose intimate images were being shared without their consent; and

MR. GARY BURRILL: I rise today to recognize Halifax residents Saf Haq and Lisa Brow on the opening of their new café, Tart & Soul, earlier this summer on the corner of Coburg Road and Oxford. Since these NSCC graduates opened their café and bakery, residents of South End Halifax have been treated to savoury soups, delectable baked goods, and pot-loads of fresh hot coffee, all made on the spot with great care and real passion for good food.

HON. ZACH CHURCHILL: Mr. Speaker, the member is not speaking facts on this. There have been 761 new teaching positions imbedded into the system. Those are for math mentors, literacy mentors, supports to support the class cap.

MR. BRENDAN MAGUIRE: I'm not going to read this verbatim, but I want to follow this up with a message I received from an individual who doesn't live in my community but felt the need to reach out to have some input on this.