Point of order, Mr. Speaker! (VII)
In Eddie Joyce’s defence – he was using nouns, not adjectives.
May 14, 2007
MR. JOYCE: Mr. Speaker, the Member for Mount Pearl, the crackie from Mount Pearl always has his mouth going but he does not have guts to stand up and criticize these numbers.
SOME HON. MEMBERS: Oh, oh!
MR. SPEAKER: Order, please!
MR. JOYCE: If you want to stand up and say these numbers are wrong -
MR. SPEAKER: Order, please!
MR. JOYCE: Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
He always has his mouth flapping over there but he does not have guts to stand up and say what is right or wrong. Stand up and criticize these figures. Do it if you are going to, if not stay quiet.
MR. SPEAKER: Order, please!
I ask the hon. member if he would be a little bit sensitive to some of the language that he is using here in the House to refer to hon. members. I will just ask him if he would be kind enough to refer to hon. members as hon. members and not use some of the adjectives that he is presently using.
MR. JOYCE: Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
I withdraw the crackie remark. I will do that. If I made that remark -
SOME HON. MEMBERS: Oh, oh!
MR. JOYCE: But, Mr. Speaker, I do ask for a bit of protection over there because once the truth does come out they have a habit of not liking the truth.
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posted by WJM @ 12:01 AM
1 Comments:
To the best of my knowledge, crackie ha snever been ruled to be unparliamentary.
That's just another example of the chair's partisan interventions.
I assume from the context it was Harvey the Prig. There's a word that would have confounded him. he'd likely have thought of the five oetter word that sounds somewhat the same. At that point you could have refused to withdraw a word you did not say.
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