HON. DENISE PETERSON-RAFUSE « » : Mr. Speaker, it's my pleasure to speak on Bill No. 67. I know that my colleagues beside us call it a shell game; we call it the "Michel game".
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THE PREMIER: I think if the Leader of the New Democratic Party was actually being forthright, ...

MR. SPEAKER: I'd just like to remind the Premier before we continue that to indicate that the honourable member across the floor is not being forthright is somewhat unparliamentary.

THE PREMIER: Mr. Speaker, let me apologize to this House and retract that comment.

MR. CHURCHILL: I don't think the member for Halifax Citadel-Sable Island wants me to get started on morons here today - I'm just kidding (Laughter) But this is an issue . . .

MR. SPEAKER: Order, please. That word is very unparliamentary. I don't know if the member is aware of that, but I would ask the honourable . . .

MR. CHURCHILL: I was just repeating a word I heard across the House and I didn't call anybody that word. I just . . .

HON. GRAHAM STEELE: Mr. Speaker, I'm rising on a point of order. During Question Period today, after I gave one of my answers, the member for Cumberland South, very clearly and distinctly shouted across the floor, you lied and you stole. Mr. Speaker, as a former Speaker of the House that member will know that those are two of the most insulting things that can be said in this House. I believe that if you examine the tapes that that remark will be clearly audible.

HON. MURRAY SCOTT: Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order that was actually raised last week by the Minister of Finance on Thursday. The Minister of Finance, as you will recall, rose and said that I had made some very disparaging remarks, unparliamentary remarks directed personally toward to him, he felt.

SPEAKER'S RULING: Unparliamentary language by Hon. M. Scott. (Pt. of Order by Hon. G. Steele [Hansard p. 379, 04/01/10]) Member apologized to the House for unparliamentary language.

MR. ALLAN MACMASTER: Mr. Speaker, the minister may be setting us up for, I guess, clearing this issue up if they have been over-inflating their FTE numbers by upwards of 700 a year in each of the last three years, and if magically that number is erased this year we'll know that they were fudging their numbers all the way along and if they balance the budget tomorrow this is one of the ways in which they've played with the budget to balance it. ...

MS. MAUREEN MACDONALD: Mr. Speaker, as members of this House know, this government had a four-year plan to bring this province back to a balanced budget. It's a plan that's working. Next week we will table a balanced budget and there won't be some trickery like we've seen from the Liberal Party the last time they brought a budget into this House that had a huge - millions of dollars off the books, the Health Investment Fund.

MR. SPEAKER: I would say that the wording that you're using there is unparliamentary, deceived is not a word that we accept in this House. (Interruption) No, I still don't think it's parliamentary, honourable member.

HON. MANNING MACDONALD: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I just said that I would retract it and replace it with the word misled.

MR. SPEAKER: Okay, we will accept that.

MS. PETERSON-RAFUSE: Mr. Speaker, I know it's the last day so he must be hallucinating. I'd like to pass that along to my honourable member . . .

MR. SPEAKER: Order, order, order, please. Order. Order. That is unparliamentary and I would ask the honourable member to please retract that comment. Thank you.