Question period is a time where members of the Legislative Assembly have the right to ask questions of the Executive Council. They might not be government backbenchers, they might be opposition members, but it's not to take potshots back and forth across the floor against other members.
00:00:20.300Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Associate Minister of Energy,
00:00:23.220but before I ask my question, I can't help but comment.
00:00:26.960You know, there's a reason that the Liberal Party is in the corner and in the penalty box because they talk about our government investing in children.
00:00:35.520Well, where was the member for Don Valley West when they shut down Munster Elementary School?
00:00:44.600I'm going to ask you to stop the clock.
00:00:46.460The purpose of question period is for members of the Legislative Assembly to ask questions
00:00:59.360of the Executive Council and hold the Executive Council to account.
00:01:03.000They might be government backbenchers asking the question, they might be opposition members.
00:01:06.580But it's not to take potshots back and forth across the floor against other members.
00:01:16.280So I am now going to start the clock and allow the member for Carleton to place her question