I have a ruling with respect to that amendment. Clause 5 of Bill C-44 states that leave related to this part is of a maximum of 37 weeks. The amendment proposes that this leave be extended to 52 weeks. As House of Commons Procedure and Practice, second edition, states on page 766:
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.
In the opinion of the chair, and pursuant to advice, the introduction of the LIB-1 amendment represents an extension of leave included in clause 5 of the bill, which is beyond the scope of the bill and is therefore inadmissible. I might mention also that LIB-3 is correlated to LIB-1, and this ruling will apply to the LIB-3 amendment as well.
Now we'll go to NDP-2. It relates to page 4 of the bill, clause 5. Amendment NDP-2 essentially talks about the end dates. I'll let the NDP move that motion.
Go ahead, Mr. Lapointe.