Mr. Crête is correct. He did ask the question or put it to the chair before the amendment was made. Frankly, if we allow amendments of this type, you're basically eliminating the 48-hour rule and there would be no point in this committee having that rule, because any member of the committee could simply come before us, have a motion in their name, and make an amendment to remove every word after the word “that”, and submit whatever they wanted, whether it's on the same subject or not.
Frankly, on the motion by substitution, the clerk talked to Mr. Holland without consulting me whatsoever. I will review the Standing Orders and the rules regarding motions by substitution, but it seems to me that we unanimously adopted a rule for the committee that we would have 48-hours notice for motions in both official languages, and that we would only allow amendments that are not of such a substantial nature that you basically change the entire motion.