Finance critic Steven Myers began a filibuster on the HST legislation. (CBC)

The opposition Progressive Conservatives continued filibustering the harmonized sales tax legislation in the P.E.I. legislature Friday and there's no indication they'll let up any time soon.

Finance critic Steven Myers said the government forced his hand and makes no apologies for the filibuster.

"I think I've earned the right to ask questions in there. For some reason they don't respect that. I mean, what else am I supposed to do? What they want to do is barge this through and not let anybody have a say on it. But that's not going to happen," said Myers.

Myers spoke for more than an hour on a wording amendment he proposed for the HST legislation Thursday. He arrived Friday to continue his case with a box full of documents about the definitions of "boat" and "vessel," arguing vessel should replace boat in the HST legislation.

MLA Hal Perry read a local history of sailing boats.

"This government decided that, 'Hey, we don't want to answer those questions, we want to talk about definitions.' So we're talking about definitions," Myers said.

He read from the Canadian Shipping Act as well as the Commercial Vessel Safety Guide.

Finance Minister Wes Sheridan said it was silly and a waste of money.

"Making a mockery of a definition in the first sentence of a bill, I would expect this member will hear from some people as to whether this is true debate and whether we are making progress on a bill that is so important to every one of his constituents," said Sheridan.

Sheridan denied he, or any of his government colleagues, tried to ram the legislation through.

Myers said he will continue to hold up the legislation until he gets answers to his questions.

The legislature broke for the weekend. The filibuster is expected to resume Monday.