Thank you for that, MP Ste-Marie.
I'll advise you that you will not be able to speak after my ruling, as you know.
My ruling is this: Bill C-59 amends several acts, including the Excise Tax Act. The amendment seeks to amend schedule VI of the act to add a new part XI to exclude home heating fuel from taxation. This is a new scheme not envisioned in the bill that goes beyond the scope of the bill as adopted by the House at second reading. As House of Commons Procedure and Practice, third edition, states on page 770, “An amendment to a bill that was referred to a committee after second reading is out of order if it is beyond the scope and principle of the bill.”
Therefore, for the above-stated reason, I rule the amendment inadmissible.