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The Hon E. David Burt, JP, MP

The Hon E. David Burt, JP, MP

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4 Mar 2016 House of Assembly
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143 words
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I will repeat what I said again. Because when their Members of the front bench, when an argument is made, stated that you have limits on what you can do by what you have placed in front of the people. When a Member of the front bench says no, that means that they do not in …
4 Mar 2016 House of Assembly
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111 words
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. N ow, Mr. Speaker, I heard earlier the Honour-able Attorney General interpolate, you know, how he 1144 4 March 2016 Official Hansard Report Bermuda House of Assembly thinks he can speak, chirp, and say, Well, you can be less radical. Wow, Mr. Speaker! Amazing! From the very Government that has proposed revers ing 27 years of …
4 Mar 2016 House of Assembly
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150 words
Mr. Speaker, it seems as if the Honourable Attorney General is trying to do whatever he can. But I am going to continue on my line, Mr. Speaker. This comes from an Opposition that has done the best it can to advance democracy. We have asked probing parliamentary questions. We have attempted to exercise our oversight. We have advanced pr …
4 Mar 2016 House of Assembly
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3 words
Okay. I will.
4 Mar 2016 House of Assembly
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80 words
No problem. No problem. The question really is how many licks or how long the Government wishes to take licks over it, Mr. Speaker. Because I got a message this morning that was asking if we were living in an alternate universe. Because I happened to read the Royal Gazette this morning. And imagine my shock at reading that the …
4 Mar 2016 House of Assembly
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16 words
Wow! The Premier of the country told the country that he cannot lead his own party.
4 Mar 2016 House of Assembly
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7 words
That he cannot lead the Gover nment!
4 Mar 2016 House of Assembly
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29 words
To say that, Mr. Speaker, is a shocking admission of weakness. And one has to question whether or not the Government has even the confidence of their own backbench!
4 Mar 2016 House of Assembly
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205 words
Let alone, Mr. Speaker, that of Parliament. If you cannot get a Government Bill passed, Mr. Speaker, that is not the reason to spend $350,000 extra for a referendum. When you cannot get a Government Bill passed, there are three things you do: You try harder, you step back, or you call an election. That is it. B ecause you …
4 Mar 2016 House of Assembly
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10 words
And then today we got to hear that he misspoke?
4 Mar 2016 House of Assembly
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13 words
Really? Bermuda House of Assembly An Hon. Member: I do not believe it.
4 Mar 2016 House of Assembly
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121 words
The Premier of the country mi sspoke? I mean, he was up here silent during question time, marches down the hill, reverses Government policy, and t hen we get to hear, after this ridiculous excuse that says he has . . . he admits to the entire country that he does not have control of his own party. Then he …
4 Mar 2016 House of Assembly
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30 words
Mr. Speaker, I will tell you what absolute nonsense is. Absolute nonsense is the Pr emier of the country admitting that he cannot pass a Government Bill through the Parliament.
4 Mar 2016 House of Assembly
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238 words
And there is no clear indication, of the examples of which I just laid o ut, that the Premier does not have control of his own party! Because if he did, we would not be hearing that, I don’t have the votes. Simple, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I read with interest on Bernews yesterday that the Premier said, speaking at …
4 Mar 2016 House of Assembly
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51 words
When you hold yourself up as a model for good governance and accountabil ity, and then turn your eyes as your Ministers violate Financial Instructions, you are weak. When you violate your very own updated Ministerial Code and disrespect the very Parliament of which you are an officer, you are weak.
4 Mar 2016 House of Assembly
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51 words
When the people come to the House of Assembly to protest after you admonish them that the place for protesting is outside of the House of Assembly, and then you walk by and scurry past with your police escort and not speak to the pe ople ass embled, you are weak!
4 Mar 2016 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, the Premier of this country is weak. This Government has lost its way. The people are tired. And I would suggest the Premier put himself out of his own misery, go to G overnment House, dissolve Parliament and let the people of this country pass their own judgment on his leadership. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
2 Mar 2016 House of Assembly
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40 words
Thank you very much, Madam Chairman. Madam Chairman, I thank the Shadow Mini ster for allo wing me a few minutes because earlier the Honourable Minister answered a question. I am on page (possibly, I want to say) C -4.
2 Mar 2016 House of Assembly
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108 words
Okay, it is [page] C-4 (thank you very much) under the 75329, Airport Redevelopment, $13 million, total allocated funding. The Honourable Minister said in his answer before that there were various commitments. Would the Honourable Minister be kind enough to tell us who these various commitments are to? Specifically, what was the $2.5 m illion spent on in this current …
2 Mar 2016 House of Assembly
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51 words
Thank you very much to the Mini ster for responding. If he could just repeat at the end. I saw $900,000 for Bennett Jones and the $391,000 reimbursable . . . was that to Bennett Jones as well, or was that to somebody else? I am just not clear on that.