Thank you, Ms. Nash.
Your chair has a ruling.
Clause 130 of Bill C-60 provides for post-secondary scholarships for students who are registered as Indians under the Indian Act and for Inuit students. The amendment seeks to amend the bill so that unregistered first nations, Métis, and Inuit students would also be eligible for the scholarship. House of Commons Procedure and Practice, second edition, states at pages 767 and 768:
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, or if it extends the objects or purposes or relaxes the conditions and qualifications specified in the royal recommendation.
In the opinion of the chair, the amendment expands the groups eligible to receive a scholarship, which seeks to alter the terms and conditions of the royal recommendation. I therefore rule this amendment inadmissible.
That deals with NDP-9.
(Clauses 130 to 132 inclusive agreed to)
(On clause 133)