Thank you, Professor Luciuk. I see the chair about to return.
I have a motion to move, Madam Chair. I want to thank the two witnesses who have been here and shared their wisdom with us, but this is the last meeting before April 1, and my dear colleague, the member of Parliament Michael Cooper, had put forward a motion so I'm moving it.
I move:
That the committee, pursuant to Standing Order 108(3)(c)(iii), report to the House that, in its opinion, the unelected Senate has unacceptably amended Bill C-234, An Act to amend the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act, which would provide carbon tax relief for Canadian farmers and, by extension, all Canadians, given the ancient financial privileges of the House of Commons which are rooted in the Constitution of Canada and, with particular relevance to Bill C-234, are expressed, in part, in Standing Order 80: “...it is the undoubted right of the House to direct, limit, and appoint in all such [money] bills, the ends, purposes, considerations, conditions, limitations, and qualifications of such grants, which are not alterable by the Senate”; and that the committee:
a. recommend that a message be sent to the Senate to acquaint Their Honours accordingly; and
b. call on the House to reject the Senate Amendments to Bill C-234.
Notice was given of this motion on Friday, March 15, 2024, Madam Chair.