Notwithstanding that, Mr. Chairman, the legislation before us here makes no reference to any issue of producing, selling, possessing, or importing anything, knowing that it will be used to produce or traffic in a substance referred to in any schedule of any kind. This is clearly an amendment to a clause of the bill that's not referred to or dealt with. Of course, they are not amending an existing provision. They are amending the entire bill by adding an entirely new provision, proposed new clause 41.1, which doesn't exist in the bill right now. They are inserting it after clause 41 and before clause 42.
If we are talking about consistency here, as Mr. Cotler said, in principle, this clearly is a new item, a new topic, and a new section of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act that they seek to amend. It is an entirely new clause for this bill, on a new subject matter.
I think when Mr. Cotler, for example, moved the addition of a crime prevention board for Canada, it was ruled out of order because it was a new matter not contemplated in the bill. I don't see how this could be any different.