Thank you, Mr. Marcil.
I would rule that due to the need for a royal recommendation, this amendment is inadmissible. BQ-4 seeks to amend section 7 of the Employment Insurance Act to reduce the number of hours of insurable employment required to qualify for benefits.
House of Commons Procedure and Practice, Second Edition, states at pages 767-8, “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.”
The amendment proposes to relax the conditions and qualifications specified in the royal recommendation, so it is inadmissible.
(Clause 209 agreed to on division)
(On clause 210)
I have amendments BQ-5 and BQ-6.