Just so everyone knows, I want to make sure we have as much debate and discussion on the amendments as we've been able to. There have been a couple of other ones. I may have been able to have done something in terms of stopping that, but I wanted to make sure that we didn't.
The ruling is that Bill C-30...and clause 9 seeks to amend the Canada Transportation Act by imposing a penalty for any contravention to the threshold of grain transportation. That amendment attempts to create, based on the penalties imposed by clause 9, a compensation plan for producers, which would be administered by the Canadian Grain Commission.
As the House of Commons Procedure and Practice, Second Edition, states on page 767, it really is at the initiative of the crown: “Since an amendment may not infringe upon the financial initiative of the crown, it is inadmissible if it imposes a charge on the public treasury...”
Okay?