THE SPEAKER: Okay, I have just been informed by the Clerk, via Legislative TV, that there is going to be a forced restart of almost every government computer at 9:40 a.m., so unfortunately that is going to impact our ability to proceed.

What we are going to do is take our 15-minute COVID-19 break now, or a short recess, as long as it takes. For everybody who is participating virtually we encourage you to do a restart and the update now. If everybody in-house can do that as well, and when we are back online we will try our best to proceed.

ALANA PAON: Mr. Speaker, I would like to stand on a point of order.

Earlier during our daily routine, we had seven minutes left to be able to rise in our places and be able to present members' statements. It is important, and I know that we put together a unanimous consent earlier on to have this session be a hybrid session, and so we changed certain rules in this House to be able to accommodate that.

THE SPEAKER: Order, please. The time allotted for Oral Questions Put by Members to Ministers has expired.

I'll just take this opportunity before we go into our next recess to remind all the members, the ones in the Chamber and the ones appearing virtually - in particular, the ones appearing virtually - that we're relying on you to self-police the length of your questions by monitoring the 45-second clock that appears on your screen. I appreciate your co-operation on that matter.

THE SPEAKER: Order please. The time allotted for the answer has long since expired. I will just take this opportunity ‑ this is our first interaction with a question being posed virtually and an answer being posed virtually. I will encourage the members to keep track of the 45‑second clock which appears on your screen only, not the Legislative TV broadcast screen. It is on the member's screen, and it is the lower clock there.

MR. SPEAKER: I'd just like to remind all the honourable members the time limit for member statements is, in fact, one minute.

THE SPEAKER: Before we go on to the supplementary, I want to remind all members (Interruptions)

Order, please. I'll ask the Sergeant-at-Arms to remove the folks in the gallery.

The House will now recess for a couple of minutes.

[10:13 a.m. The House recessed.]

[10:15 a.m. The House reconvened.]

THE SPEAKER: Before we move on to the next question, I'm going to add three minutes to Question Period to allow compensation for the interruption that we just experienced, so we'll conclude at 10:53 a.m.

ALLAN MACMASTER: Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order, and I'd like to reference Rule 29(2).

Mr. Speaker, the Premier raised a point of privilege today, but according to Rule 29(2), the Premier must give two hours' notice before he raises a point of privilege. The Premier went on at length over what is normally ruled by you as a disagreement between two members.

THE SPEAKER: Just before we go back to members' statements, I think it would be prudent for me just to remind all members of the House that when ministerial statements are put forth, it is the tradition of this House that the Opposition replies not be longer than the ministerial statements themselves. So, just a friendly reminder.

THE SPEAKER: I would like to remind all members that resolutions, each whereas clause is to contain one sentence. If we can keep it down to that, that would be great.

THE SPEAKER: Just before we do this, I want to remind members that the time limit for statements by members is one minute. I suggest you practise, and if you're longer than 45 seconds, you need to do some editing.