Okay. We will now move to the next item on the agenda, which is a notice of the motion from the Honourable Jim Karygiannis:
That the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration ask the Minister, the Deputy Minister, and other appropriate officials from the Department of Citizenship and Immigration to appear before the Committee to further discuss the issue of Lost Canadians and the measures the Government is taking to notify potentially affected Canadians of the retention rule, with regard to the letter from Deputy Minister Richard B. Fadden, dated February 23, 2007, which reads:
Mr. Karygiannis, I'm told by the committee clerk that the motion is out of order. I'm told that the motion is inadmissible in its current form because of the letter that is included in the text, so I have to rule that the motion is inadmissible.
Quoting from Marleau and Montpetit, chapter 12, pages 449 and 450:
A motion should not contain any objectionable or irregular wording. It should not be argumentative or written in the style of a speech.
Further on it says:
As a general rule, every question that is debatable is amendable. ... They are amendable and must be drafted in such a way as to enable the House to express agreement or disagreement with what is proposed.
In short, a motion should be decidable and amendable by the committee.
However, the letter is not a decision of the committee, and its inclusion in the motion is irrelevant to the decision to invite the minister and others from the department, because the letter is attached.
Can you resubmit?