Thank you, Mr. Lawrence, and good day to your daughter behind you. Hi.
I have looked at the amendment and have consulted with the procedure resource that we have, and my ruling on this is that the bill's only object is to add marketable natural gas and propane to the definition of “qualifying farming fuel”. The amendment would remove a part of the definition of “eligible farming machinery” that is not envisioned or amended by the bill.
House of Commons Procedure and Practice, in the third edition, states on page 770:
An amendment to a bill that was referred to a committee after second reading is out of order if it is beyond the scope and principle of the bill.
For the reasons stated above, the amendment is therefore inadmissible, as it goes beyond the scope of the bill as adopted at second reading by the House.
That is my ruling on that. It is not debatable. I can be challenged, but this is my ruling.