Good morning. Order, please. By the authority given to the Speaker by Motion 4-14(6), I hereby direct that this House shall sit until the orders of the day are concluded with item 22 on the Order Paper.
Speaker's Ruling
Colleagues, I want to make my ruling on yesterday's Point of Order by Ms. Lee. I indicated that I would return to the House on the Point of Order raised by the honourable Member for Range Lake. I did indicate at the time that the chair was concerned with the timing and timeframes that the Member, Ms. Lee, was raising in her Point of Order, but did allow the Member the opportunity to address her Point of Order.
The chair was concerned that if recent events or occurrences were going to be used to provide a new context to earlier events or statements, the House could potentially face numerous such points of order. This would set a precedent that is undesirable and indeed would be unmanageable from a procedural perspective. It is regrettable that the Member was not allowed to raise her Point of Order in a more timely manner or was not able to raise her Point of Order in a more timely manner. The essence of a Point of Order is to bring to the House's attention an infringement of the rules immediately to enable the House to address it.
Therefore, as the point is based on comments made over a week ago it was not recognized immediately and not raised at the time of the alleged transgression. Therefore, I cannot allow the Point of Order to proceed.
Item 2, Ministers' statements. The honourable Member for the Sahtu, Mr. Kakfwi.