Okay. People do have copies of the amendment.
I have a ruling on this particular amendment, Mr. Duvall.
The amendment seeks to amend Bill C-26, an act to amend the Canada Pension Plan, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Act and the Income Tax Act. The amendment would result in an increase in the value of the benefit in question. Therefore, 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, the amendment proposes to increase the value of the benefit, which could impose an additional charge on the public treasury, and therefore I must rule the amendment inadmissible.
That's the ruling.