MR. HAROLD THERIAULT: Somehow DFO thinks you're going to slow the effort up by doubling up licenses, by two right now, but what about two years down the road? Do we go to three licenses per boat? Once you open that door, you open another one, shit, let's go to four, let's go to five, let's go to six.

MR. SPEAKER: I apologize, not this time. (Interruptions) The honourable member knows that word is certainly not parliamentary language and I would ask the honourable member to withdraw that word, please.

MR. THERIAULT: I apologize, Mr. Speaker.

MR. SPEAKER: Thank you.

MR. DAVID WILSON (Glace Bay): Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise on a point of privilege, because earlier today I feel that my privileges as a member of this House . . .

MR. SPEAKER: Wait, there you go.

MR. DAVID WILSON (Glace Bay): Mr. Speaker, I rise on a personal point of privilege, because I feel earlier today my privileges as a member of this House were violated . . .

MR. SPEAKER: The microphone for the honourable member for Glace Bay keeps on failing in and out. Do you want to try one more time?

MS. MAUREEN MACDONALD: Mr. Speaker, on a point of order. I think the record should reflect that I said the federal Liberal Government also sent their rebate to a lot of dead people and people in prison and that's a fact that is on the record.

MR. SPEAKER: I don't believe that is a point of order.

The honourable member for Richmond has the floor.

MR. DAVID WILSON (Glace Bay: Mr. Speaker, that's exactly what seniors are facing in this province now. To many of those concerns, ministers from that government including the top banana over there, the Premier - they will come back with. . .

MR. SPEAKER: Order, please.

MR. DAVID WILSON (Glace Bay): Is that unparliamentary?

MR. SPEAKER: It certainly is and I would ask the honourable member to withdraw that comment.

MR. DAVID WILSON (Glace Bay): Okay, I withdraw the banana remark, Mr. Speaker.

MS. MAUREEN MACDONALD: Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. During Question Period, the Minister of Immigration stated that the Chair of the Public Accounts Committee improperly released Nominee Program documents which, in his view, should have been concealed. I take great offence to the minister's statement as the Chair of the Public Accounts Committee.

MR. LEONARD PREYRA: Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Education. Despite her department's attempt to fudge the figures, Nova Scotia university students still pay over $2,000 above the national average in compulsory tuition fees. Nova Scotia is one of only two provinces without a needs-based grants program. As a result, according to Paris Meyer of the Alliance of Nova Scotia Student Associations, we place the highest financial burden on our students than any other jurisdiction in North America.

MR. SPEAKER: Before we proceed to the debate on Supply, just one item. When the member for Pictou East was speaking in debate, he did refer and utilize the word in reference to the road construction program, it was the word "spoof" and on a more derogatory end or whimsical sense it can be seen as satirical and/or a parody but it also can refer to a hoax, which has a different terminology. I would just remind all members to be cognizant of parliamentary language, and I know that the honourable member in question probably did not intend that to be but it can have a double meaning.

HON. CECIL CLARKE: Mr. Speaker, as is the case in this House, it's not often the member who would be the Speaker would rise and speak to this. However, people have chosen to talk about a subject that is important and it's within my constituency and I feel it incumbent upon me that I rise to my feet tonight to talk about some of the realities around this particular centre and the situation that other people have found themselves in and are lashing out against the provincial government when, indeed, maybe we need to go back to a little bit of history here.

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HON. LEAH MARTIN: Thank you to the member opposite for the question. I've listened to a lot of - for lack of a better word - mansplaining from the member opposite over the last couple of hours and days. I would like to say that while Nova Scotians respect a government that can walk back on things that maybe they don't get perfectly, how come the member opposite didn't apologize when he didn't get it right yesterday, standing with the Ku Klux Klan? I'm not sure.

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BRENDAN MAGUIRE: This misinformation or this storytelling about mass layoffs - when we come back in the Fall, and if the doom and gloom that they are predicting does not happen - which it won't - I hope those members stand on their feet and apologize.

THE SPEAKER: The honourable member for Halifax Citadel-Sable Island.

LISA LACHANCE: Point of order. I do request that the member withdraw the statement of "misinformation."

THE SPEAKER: He didn't accuse any member of misinformation.