Newfoundland and Labrador.

• Date: 22 June 2020
• Author: Murphy, Elizabeth

The House of Assembly convened on March 3, 2020, for the continuation of the First Session of the 49th General Assembly, a day later than scheduled owing to inclement weather.

Further to the resolution adopted by the House on December 5, 2019, the Member for St. Barbe--L'Anse aux Meadows began serving the two-week suspension ordered by that resolution.

The Member for Humber-Bay of Islands raised a point of privilege regarding a matter which was first raised as a point of privilege on March 3, 2019, and ruled not to be prima facie privilege.

The Member stated in raising the matter again that he had become aware of new evidence bearing on the case which had to do with an investigation carried out by the Commissioner for Legislative Standards. The Speaker took the matter under advisement.

On March 5 the House passed unanimously a resolution standing in the name of the Government House Leader striking a Select Committee on Democratic Reform. This followed from a Private Member's resolution...