Speaker's Rulings

Madam Speaker: I have three rulings for the House.

For clarification, I indicated to the House I had three rulings to deliver today. I mistakenly forgot that two of the rulings concerned an individual and that I am unable to present all three rulings today.

On April 6 the honourable First Minister rose on a matter of privilege respecting statements he had made to the House in June 1998 and apologized for supplying incorrect information to the House.

The long-standing Manitoba practice is that a member raising a matter of privilege concludes by moving a substantive motion. This is confirmed by rulings of Speaker Forbes in 1965, Speaker Graham in 1980, Speaker Walding in 1982, Speaker Phillips in 1986 and 1987, and Speaker Rocan in 1990 and 1991.

Because the honourable First Minister failed to bring forward a substantive motion, I have to rule the matter of privilege as raised as being out of order.

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