Thank you, Mr. Cullen.
I have a ruling on amendment NDP-10 that applies to LIB-10 as well.
Bill C-31 establishes retroactively a period for which earnings loss benefit applicants and recipients will receive a compensation. The amendment seeks to expand this period. As 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.
In the opinion of the chair, therefore, the amendment, by modifying the period of admissibility, infringes on the conditions and qualifications specified in the royal recommendation. The amendment is therefore ruled inadmissible.
That applies to amendments NDP-10 and LIB-10.
We will move to discussion on clause 102.
I will take speakers for clause 102. I'll start with Mr. Cullen.