There's a challenge of the chair.
Go ahead, Clerk.
(Ruling of the chair sustained: yeas 6; nays 5)
It's been sustained.
Members, now we are at amendment CPC-8.
I do have a ruling. The ruling is that Bill C-47 amends several acts, including the Excise Act, 2001 to add inflationary adjustment clauses. The amendment seeks to establish a new amount of fine related to the supply of bulk wine offences.
As House of Commons Procedure and Practice, Third Edition, states on page 770:
An amendment to a bill that was referred to committee after second reading is out of order if it is beyond the scope and principle of the bill.
In the opinion of the chair, this addition is a new concept that is beyond the scope of the bill as adopted by the House at second reading; therefore, I rule the amendment inadmissible.