Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) Committee on June 13th, 2006

[A voice]

Yes, they go together.

[The Chair, Conservative, David Tilson]

Mr. Poilievre, would you move that, please?

[Pierre Poilievre, Conservative, Nepean—Carleton, ON]

Which amendment are you looking for us to move?

[The Chair, Conservative, David Tilson]

It is amendment G-45.1.

[Pierre Poilievre, Conservative, Nepean—Carleton, ON]

I see that this amendment appears to be the same as NDP-18.5--

[The Chair, Conservative, David Tilson]

Yes.

[Pierre Poilievre, Conservative, Nepean—Carleton, ON]

--and as such we will withdraw and allow discussion to focus on the NDP version of this amendment.

[The Chair, Conservative, David Tilson]

Mr. Dewar, could you move NDP-18.5?

[Paul Dewar, NDP, Ottawa Centre, ON]

I so move.

If you take a look at the intent of 179.1....

[The Chair, Conservative, David Tilson]

No, I don't want to do that. I'm going to rule it out of order.

[Paul Dewar, NDP, Ottawa Centre, ON]

Oh, thank you.

[The Chair, Conservative, David Tilson]

NDP-18.5 proposes to add a definition of “government institution”, and it's amending section 2 of the Library and Archives of Canada Act.

House of Commons Procedure and Practice states on page 654:

...an amendment is inadmissible if it amends a statute that is not before the committee or a section of a parent Act unless it is specifically being amended by a clause of the bill.

Since section 2 of the Library and Archives of Canada Act is not being amended by Bill C-2, it is inadmissible to propose such an amendment. Therefore, NDP-18.5 is inadmissible.

[Paul Dewar, NDP, Ottawa Centre, ON]

Mr. Chair, can I seek unanimous consent?

[The Chair, Conservative, David Tilson]

Unanimous consent--to what?

[Paul Dewar, NDP, Ottawa Centre, ON]

To consider this.

[The Chair, Conservative, David Tilson]

Well, I ruled it out of order, so you can't even ask for consent.

We'll move to clause 179.2, which is G-45.2, and NDP-18.6. They are consequential to 179.1, which I just ruled out of order, so they're out of order.

We move to clause 180, and we have an amendment on page 144.5-- G-45.3--which is the same as NDP-18.6.1 on page 144.7.

We're on G-45.3, Mr. Dewar.

Mr. Poilievre, go ahead, please.

[Pierre Poilievre, Conservative, Nepean—Carleton, ON]

Okay.

[The Chair, Conservative, David Tilson]

Have I thoroughly confused you?

[A voice]

No.

[The Chair, Conservative, David Tilson]

That's good.

[Pierre Poilievre, Conservative, Nepean—Carleton, ON]

All right, Mr. Chair, I will withdraw G-45.3.

[The Chair, Conservative, David Tilson]

Mr. Dewar will proceed with NDP-18.6.1.

[Paul Dewar, NDP, Ottawa Centre, ON]

Is this where you tell me it's out of order?

[The Chair, Conservative, David Tilson]

Mr. Dewar, we're on NDP-18.6.1.

[Paul Dewar, NDP, Ottawa Centre, ON]

I move that in Bill C-2, clause 180 be amended by replacing lines 12 and 13 on page 123 with the following:

180. The Act is amended by adding the following after

(Amendment agreed to)

(Clause 180 as amended agreed to on division)