Thank you, Mr. Lee.
Now, first of all, before we move on with some debate on that, you may have noticed that amendments Liberal-1 and Liberal-3 are linked; they're similar. They deal with a similar issue. Unfortunately, in committee the chair has no authority to group amendments for debating and voting purposes, as the Speaker does at report stage.
Committees consider amendments one at a time and proceed in their examination of the bill from clause to clause. A dilemma exists when an amendment has consequential relationships with other amendments. If the committee is to take consistent decisions on these amendments, the voting on one ought to be linked with the others. The problem is that the clause may not be open yet for discussion.
A practical solution that has been followed by the chair in the past is to make a statement identifying those consequential amendments. What I'm suggesting is that if the first amendment, Liberal-1, is negatived, then the third amendment, Liberal-3, should also be negatived, as the committee has then already decided on the matter. If the first amendment is adopted, then the third amendment will be deemed adopted, as the committee is bound to take consistent decisions.
I need to have some agreement on how we're going to approach that. What is your will?