Excuse me. Just a minute. Excuse me.
I'm going read the ruling, and then it is not debatable.
Bill C-45amends the Judges Act to establish the yearly salaries of judges of various judiciaries. These amendments propose to increase these amounts proposed. House of Commons Procedure and Practice, second edition, states on 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.
Therefore, in the opinion of the chair the amendment increasing the salary amounts proposed in the bill would alter the terms and conditions of the royal recommendation. Therefore I rule the amendments inadmissible.
This ruling is not debatable.