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Fact Sheet 6

Personal Explanations

General purposes

Summary

Below are the general purposes for giving personal explanations in the Legislative Assembly.

Purposes for which personal explanations are allowed

1

To correct a statement where the member may have inadvertently misled the House.

2

To explain where the press has misquoted what the member has said in the House.

3

To correct statements made in the House by other members which misrepresent what the member has actually said in the House.

 

 

 

 

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