MR. ALFIE MACLEOD: Mr. Speaker, my question through you is to the Deputy Premier. It's no secret that this NDP Government has no respect for the Auditor General. In January 2012 the Auditor General pointed out that running up the province's deficit - the debt - was unethical. To that, the member for Halifax Chebucto said: very interesting, who asked you?

Earlier this year, the Auditor General unveiled a $27 million budget cover-up. Media reports say the Treasury Board denied a budget increase to the Auditor . . .

HON. STEPHEN MCNEIL: ... Mr. Speaker, how can Nova Scotians trust a Premier to deliver affordable clean energy to this province via the Maritime Link when he won't even tell Nova Scotians how much that energy will cost? How can the people of this province trust a government that intentionally misleads the House of Assembly and all Nova Scotians when it failed to disclose . . .

MR. SPEAKER: Order, please. That is unparliamentary, the words "intentionally misleading".

MR. MCNEIL: I'll rephrase it, Mr. Speaker.

MR. SPEAKER: Thank you.

MR. ANDREW YOUNGER: ... Once again, the NDP chose higher profits for Nova Scotia Power and Emera so they could spend that money outside of Nova Scotia over jobs and economic opportunities in green energy in Nova Scotia. Why did the minister allow the IPP process to be rigged so that Nova Scotia Power could download their capital cost to ratepayers while driving away new renewable energy investment that would have created new rural jobs in Nova Scotia and cheaper energy prices in this province?

MR. ZACH CHURCHILL: You're an embarrassment. You're an absolute embarrassment.

MR. SPEAKER: Order, please. Order. I would remind the honourable member for Yarmouth that's unparliamentary language. Calling the honourable member an embarrassment is unparliamentary and I would ask the honourable member for Yarmouth to retract that please.

MR. KEITH BAIN: Madam Speaker, it's great to be able to stand to actually talk about the bill for a minute, if we could. The fact that a government has to bribe companies to come to our province is a sign that our economy is sick.

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MR. CLARRIE MACKINNON : Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. The terminology "bribe" in this House is just not acceptable. It's not parliamentary.

MADAM SPEAKER: Thank you. The honourable member for Victoria-The Lakes.

MR. BAIN: I will withdraw that word, Madam Speaker.

MR. CHUCK PORTER: Madam Speaker, I guess I'll get a few minutes to talk today on something very important to Nova Scotians - more so than wasting our time in this Legislature talking about absolutely nothing. I've never heard so much verbal sewage flowing in all my life as I have from that member over there.

MADAM SPEAKER: Order, please. I would ask the member to retract as those are unparliamentary.

MR. PORTER: Unparliamentary?

MADAM SPEAKER: Yes siree, Bob.

HON. KEITH COLWELL: So, Madam Speaker, I'm going to wrap up my comments with that and the final thing I'm going to say is this government has done a crappy job of looking after the government.

MADAM SPEAKER: Order. I would ask the member to withdraw that last remark. It is unparliamentary.

MR. COLWELL: I will do that and I will change it to . . .

MADAM SPEAKER: Just withdraw it.

MR. COLWELL: . . . doing a very poor job of looking after Nova Scotians.

MR. MAT WHYNOTT: Mr. Speaker, glad to rise again and speak for a few moments on this resolution before us. Of course as we know, it's a bunch of hogwash but it's there on paper and I think it's something that we do need to debate in this House, this historic Chamber.

MR. SPEAKER: Honourable member, I believe "hogwash" might be on the line of unparliamentary language. It has a relation to another animal so you have to be very careful.

The honourable member for Hammonds Plains-Upper Sackville.

MR. BAILLIE: So my question to the Premier is, who is this new bogeyman so intent on screwing the forests of Nova Scotia that he is using to try to justify another $100 million in bailout money? (Interruptions)

MR. SPEAKER: I was just going to say that that word is definitely unparliamentary. (Interruptions)

Mr. GORDIE GOSSE: Unfortunately, the attitude of the Leader of the Official Opposition - he thinks this is funny and I think it is just the ignorance and inexperience of the Leader of the Official Opposition where he refuses to understand the real prospects for long-term employment for the province and he should be congratulating Irving, IBM, PROJEX, all of the companies that are coming here to Nova Scotia to build our future.