I have a couple of comments and an important question. With great respect to my colleague, Ms. May is not the only person who has proposed amendments at report stage in the House. I don't think I'm hurting her to say this, because other parties, including the New Democratic Party and probably members of all parties, have proposed amendments in the House at report stage, but I'm sympathetic to her point here.
My question has to do with this: I'm unclear, if this motion were to pass, whether it means that members of Parliament may only present amendments to legislation at committee and therefore are totally precluded from doing so at report stage in the House—which I believe, if I'm not doing violence to Ms. May's position, is her position. She she may be right, but I have checked with our parliamentary advisers, who suggest to me that this is not completely the case: it's only those amendments, they say, that are presented at committee that can no longer be moved at report stage in the House, meaning that other amendments could be moved at report stage in the House, as long as they were not made in committee.
I had a chance to chat with Ms. May, and if I understand her position correctly, she thought that if this motion were to pass, it would mean that a member would be precluded from moving any amendments at report stage in the House because they had had a chance to move them in committee.
I wonder whether anybody knows the answer to that, because it would make a difference to of how I view this—