Thank you.
My responsibility as chair is to rule on the admissibility of all amendments before the committee.
Bill C-318 amends the Canada Labour Code to introduce a new type of special benefit to extend parental leave in case of the transfer of a child through adoption or a child born through surrogacy. The amendment attempts to create another benefit where an Indigenous child could be placed with an employee other than the child's parents, following different processes than the provincial adoption process as indicated in the bill, and the employee could be entitled to an extended parental leave.
As House of Commons Procedure and Practice, third edition, states on page 770: “An amendment to a bill that was referred to committee—